Bauer Gear Motor
| Bauer Gear Motor GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Esslingen am Neckar , Germany |
| management | Carl Christenson, Glenn Deegan, Karl Peter Simon |
| Number of employees | 194 |
| sales | EUR 71.42 million |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.bauergears.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The Bauer Gear Motor company was founded in 2011 when Altra Holdings took over Danfoss Bauer , which was created in 1999 through the merger of Getrieb-Motorenwerke Eberhard Bauer and the Danish group Danfoss .
history
In 1927 Wilhelm Bauer founded an electric motor factory in Esslingen am Neckar . He developed the gear motor , the connection between a rapidly rotating electric motor and a gearbox . Until then, it was necessary to work with reductions for drives with slow rotational speeds .
In 1936 the company was taken over by Eberhard Bauer , the son of the company founder. After the Second World War , the company experienced a rapid boom. In 1947 the first of a total of 21 external offices was opened. Three years later the company moved to Pliensauvorstadt , on the outskirts of Esslingen. The conversion to series production went hand in hand . From the end of the 1950s, Bauer also expanded abroad; a total of 11 subsidiaries had been founded by 1987 .
In 1962, Bauer acquired a small engine factory in Munich , which was relocated to an industrial park in Unterschleißheim in 1971 . Due to cost pressure from competitors, parts of the assembly department were relocated abroad from the beginning of the 1970s . After the death of Eberhard Bauer in 1984, the founder's grandson took over management of the company.
In 1999 the company merged with the Danish group Danfoss and was given the new name Danfoss Bauer . The company is one of the leading international companies in the geared motor sector. In addition to the headquarters in Esslingen, Danfoss Bauer has production facilities in Unterschleißheim near Munich and in Zlaté Moravce , Slovakia ; a total of around 1,000 people are employed.
In April 2009 the company management announced the closure of the factory in Unterschleißheim with 135 employees, as the orders had fallen by over 40%. Production was relocated to the Slovak plant at the end of 2009. The company buildings were demolished in 2011. In May 2011 Danfoss announced in a press release that Danfoss Bauer had been acquired by Altra Holdings. Danfoss Bauer now operates under the new name Bauer Gear Motor .
With the help of Altra, the plant in Esslingen was rebuilt from July 2014 to May 2015. A completely new two-story office building was built and the production hall built in 2000 was expanded by the same size, thereby doubling the production area. The grand opening was celebrated on May 5, 2015.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ 80 years of geared motors - Wilhelm Bauer had the brilliant idea
- ↑ Steeb.de ( Memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ merkur-online.de: Danfoss Bauer threatens to close the plant: 135 jobs on the dump , April 22, 2009
- ↑ The first trees were cut down , February 23, 2011
- ↑ Altra Holdings completes acquisition of Bauer Gear Motor
- ↑ Flagship production opened . kem.industrie.de. May 7, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2019.