Benecke calico
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1718 |
| Seat | Hanover , Germany |
| management | Dirk Leiß |
| Number of employees | 2,900 (2016) |
| sales | EUR 599 million (2016) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.benecke-kaliko.de |
The Benecke-Kaliko AG in Hannover is a developer and manufacturer of technical and decorative surface materials from plastics. It has been operating under the Continental brand since 2017 .
Companies
Benecke-Kaliko AG, based in Hanover, is part of the Benecke-Hornschuch Surface Group, a division of the ContiTech Group. The core competence lies in the area of motor vehicle web products. Benecke-Kaliko produces at eleven locations and achieved sales of 599 million euros in 2016 with more than 2,900 employees.
Benecke-Kaliko is the world market leader in automotive interior films. The company produces surfaces for instrument panels, sun visors, glove box covers, airbag seals, door and side panels, seats, center consoles and convertible tops for automobile manufacturers. Benecke-Kaliko materials are also used in airplanes, ships, trains or mobile homes.
Main locations and products
At its headquarters in the Hanover district of Vinnhorst , Benecke-Kaliko produced around 36 million m² of sheet goods annually in 2015 with over 1000 employees.
At the Eislingen site , around 500 employees produced around 17.5 million running meters in the same year. Rolls based on thermoplastic polyolefins (TPO).
Overall, in 2015, Benecke-Kaliko AG produced around 100.5 million m² of sheet goods per day.
Since 2006, Benecke-Changshun Auto Trim Co., Ltd. in Zhangjiagang, China, PVC foam film and synthetic leather for the Chinese automotive industry, with around 480 employees, around 20 million m² annually (as of 2018). The company is a joint venture with the Chinese automotive plastics retailer Jiangsu Changshun Group Co., Ltd. and was expanded to include TPO production in 2013.
In 2008 a new plant was built in San Luis Potosí , Mexico . The company has invested around eight million euros in the factory. Since the beginning of 2009 PVC foam film and PVC synthetic leather as well as TPO compact and foam film have been manufactured there for the American market - around 13 million m² annually. In 2018, the plant employed around 250 people.
In 2014, Benecke-Kaliko and its Chinese partner company Jiangsu Changshun Group Co. Ltd. entered into a joint venture to build a second Chinese plant in Changzhou, which opened in February 2016 and employed 159 people in 2018. In addition, Benecke-Kaliko has taken over two locations of the Belgian Mecaseat Group in Pamplona, Spain and Wagrowiec, Poland. A total of 150 people were employed at both locations in 2018. With the acquisition, the Benecke-Kaliko Group strengthened its industrial business, among other things.
history
The company's history goes back to the year 1718; At that time, covering materials for wall and ceiling coverings were produced in Hanover under the name “Royal, privileged oilcloth manufacture in front of the stone gate ” (outside the city walls, Am Judenkirchhof ). The plant was relocated to its current location in Vinnhorst in 1898 and the plant was opened in 1901.
The company name goes back to Ernst Phil. Benecke, who took over the business in 1771, and to the cotton fabric calico, which in turn is named after the south Indian city of Kalikut (today: Kozhikode ).
In 1993 the merger with Göppinger Kaliko GmbH took place and with it the connection to the ContiTech Holding. In 2017, Continental AG took over the Hornschuch Group , headquartered in Weißbach, Germany, and more than 1,800 employees at four production sites in Germany and the USA, and integrated it into the Benecke-Hornschuch Surface Group division, which operates under the Continental brand . The company is thus expanding its industrial business and opening up new sales markets, particularly in North America. Since January 1, 2018, the former ContiTech Elastomer Coatings division has been part of the Benecke-Hornschuch Surface Group as a third segment alongside Automotive and Living Solutions. It produces technical fabrics, membranes and printing blankets. Since mid-2019, the business unit has only appeared externally as Continental and internally under the name Surface Solutions.
Fonts
- Acella courier. News for the members of the company JH Benecke, Hanover-Vinnhorst , Hanover-Vinnhorst [PO Box]: JH Benecke GmbH, issues documented by the German National Library (DNB) from 8/1960 to 13/1965.8
- Benecke report. Company magazine of the company JH Benecke GmbH , Vinnhorst (Hanover): JH Benecke GmbH, issues 13.1965.9 / 10 - 21.1973.10; so that shows are discontinued
literature
- Albert Lefèvre: JH Benecke , in this: The contribution of Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), s. 273
- Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC , ed. from Volksbank Hannover , Hannover 1995, p. 12 and below
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Benecke-Kaliko AG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 57.
- Lars Ruzic: Films with a function . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 21, 2015, p. 11
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Benecke-Kaliko AG: data and facts from Benecke-Kaliko . 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ↑ Benecke-Kaliko , In: Niedersächsische Wirtschaft issue 12/2017, p. 31
- ↑ Continental receives approval from the antitrust authorities on Benecke-Kaliko.com, accessed on March 9, 2017
- ↑ Continental Industry - Organization.Retrieved November 18, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '23.9 " N , 9 ° 42' 30.9" E