Benteler (company)

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Benteler International AG

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1876
Seat Salzburg , Austria
management Ralf Göttel, CEO
Arno Haselhorst, CRO
Frank B. Jehle, CFO
Number of employees ≈ 30,000 (2018)
sales EUR 8.072 billion (2018)
Branch Automotive supplier, steel pipe production, trade
Website www.benteler.com
As of March 15, 2019

Main building BENTELER Automotive

The Benteler International AG (proper spelling: BENTELER) is a holding located in a German family whose companies operate worldwide in the fields of automotive, steel and pipe production and engineering. Benteler International AG has been headquartered in Salzburg (Austria) since 2010 . The owners are the Benteler family.

The Benteler Group is organized into the three divisions Benteler Automotive, Benteler Steel / Tube and Glass Processing Equipment. The management holding company Benteler International AG, based in Salzburg, Austria, controls the strategic direction of the group. In addition to Benteler International AG, Benteler Business Services GmbH, based in Paderborn, Germany (until 2016 Benteler Deutschland GmbH) with headquarters in Paderborn, also performs additional holding functions. The Benteler Group employs around 30,000 people at around 100 locations in around 30 countries, including around 9,000 employees ( full-time equivalents ) in Germany. Sales in the 2018 financial year amounted to 8.072 billion euros.

history

Foundation, first pipe production, expansion of production

Carl Benteler opened a hardware store in Bielefeld in 1876 , which was taken over by his son Eduard Benteler in 1908. In 1916 he bought a machine factory in which drawn tubes were produced for the first time in 1918. In 1922, Eduard Benteler founded the Benteler-Werke Aktiengesellschaft, which in 1923 began producing seamless and welded tubes in Paderborn and Neuhaus Castle . The first major order for the automotive industry came in 1935: Benteler produced exhaust pipes for the Ford Eifel . During the Second World War, anti-aircraft guns (including the anti-aircraft guns 2 cm Flak 38 and 2 cm Flak Vierling 38 ) and scrapers were built at the Benteler plant in Bielefeld until the plant was destroyed in an air raid in 1944. The 30 type SR43 scrapers manufactured by Benteler were developed by Menck & Hambrock in 1943 (hence the name Benteler-Menck scraper ).

After the Second World War, Benteler's sons Erich and Helmut rebuilt the business and expanded the product range considerably. Benteler was now a supplier to the bicycle and automotive industries, producing seamless and hot-rolled tubes as well as textile finishing, plastics and glass processing machines. In the buildings of the former Paderborn-Mönkeloh military airport , Benteler, in cooperation with racing driver and designer Hermann Holbein, produced around 2000 copies of the “ Champion ” small car from 1950 to 1952 . Thereafter, Delta brand refrigerators were manufactured in Mönkeloh for a short time.

The Benteler logo - an inverted triangle made up of three smaller triangles - has been in use since 1949. The three small triangles stood for Eduard Benteler's children Ilse, Erich and Helmut, whose ownership the company passed in equal parts after their father's death. The surrounding large triangle should symbolize the continued existence of the company as a whole.

Consolidation and development of the main business areas

Steel / Tube

In 1955 the first steel was poured in the newly built Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus steelworks, and in 1958 the world's first continuously operating continuous casting plant went into operation here. In 1974 the electric steelworks built in Lingen (Ems) went into operation, which still produces steel for the company's own hot rolling mills in Dinslaken and Paderborn as well as for external customers.

In 2007, Benteler took over the Swiss Rothrist Rohr AG, which produces welded precision tubes - mainly for the automotive industry. The Stahlrohr-Werke in Rothrist and Bottrop then became the property of the group. In 2011 there was a major fire in the hot tube plant of Benteler Steel Tube GmbH in Dinslaken; production had to be shut down for several months. In 2015, Benteler Steel / Tube opened a hot rolling mill in Shreveport , Louisiana.

Automotive

In 1977, the Benteler site in Paderborn-Talle, founded in 1956, manufactured car axles for the first time. In 1985 a transfer line was built here for the first large-scale contract manufacturing of rear axle supports.

In 1979, global expansion began with the opening of the first plant in the USA. Starting in 1991, Benteler also specialized in just-in-time production and delivery of ready-to-install components for automobile manufacturers. The automotive technology sector was now larger than the steel tube sector. From now on, new Benteler plants went into operation almost every year. In order to be able to efficiently supply local automobile manufacturers, production sites were established in North America (from 1979, 9 plants until 2018), South America (from 1996, 5 plants), Southern Europe (from 1990, 14 plants), Eastern Europe (from 1995, 10 plants), and Northern Europe (from 2009, 3 plants) and Asia (from 2000, 15 plants) built or taken over. With the plant in Chongqing, another production facility was opened in China in 2018, which was created as part of a joint venture with the Chinese company Changan Automobile Group. In 2018, Benteler also opened a new plant in Klášterec nad Ohří, Czech Republic .

In 2008, Benteler and the Wiesbaden-based SGL Group founded the Benteler SGL joint venture , which specializes in lightweight construction with carbon materials , in order to supplement its focus on steel with lightweight construction expertise. At the beginning of 2009, the joint venture also took over Fischer Composite Technology GmbH in Ried im Innkreis, Austria. In November 2017, Benteler and SGL-Group agreed to sell Benteler's 50 percent joint venture stake to SGL-Group in the same year. Also in 2009, Benteler acquired the Automotive Structures division from the Norwegian group Norsk Hydro, an international aluminum producer based in Oslo.

distribution

In 1957, the first tube and steel warehouse, which today belongs to the Benteler Distribution division, was built in Berlin. Over the years, Benteler founded or took over more than 50 sales offices and other warehouse locations in Europe, Asia and Australia. Benteler Distribution now includes 24 national companies in Europe and Asia as well as other affiliated sales companies in Germany, Switzerland, and Northern and Eastern Europe.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new central warehouse in the Port of Duisburg took place in April 2014. Completed in 2015, the location with Europe's largest high-bay racking system has 35,000 square meters of storage space for 27,000 tons of pipes.

On August 27, 2019, the Benteler Group announced the sale of the Benteler Distribution division (steel trading division) to the Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group . The background to this is the company's greater focus on the automotive sector. The sale was completed on November 29, 2019 after approval by the competition authorities. The Distribution division is now part of the Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group .

Restructuring

In 1999, Benteler was converted into a holding company with initially four independently operating divisions: automotive technology, steel / tube, mechanical engineering (integrated into the automotive technology division in 2005) and trading.

In 2010 the newly founded Benteler International AG, based in Salzburg, took over the strategic management functions of the group. The operative business with the three divisions Automotive (automotive technology), Steel / Tube (steel / pipe) and Distribution (trade) has since been organized in Benteler Business Service GmbH (until 2016 Benteler Deutschland GmbH) based in Paderborn.

In April 2017, long-standing CEO Hubertus Benteler moved to the Supervisory Board. Ralf Göttel, who had previously headed the Automotive division, took over the management. For the first time in the company's 140-year history, there is no family member at the helm of Benteler.

Development of number of employees and turnover

In 1976, a hundred years after the company was founded, Benteler employed 9,000 people and for the first time generated sales of more than DM 1 billion. In 1995 the company had sales of more than DM 3 billion for the first time. In 2001 the group employed 17,000 people worldwide. According to a survey by the industry journal “Die deutsche Wirtschaft”, Benteler ranked 27th among the largest family businesses in Germany in terms of sales in 2017.

Business activity

Business areas

Automotive

With around 26,000 employees, 70 plants in 25 countries and sales (2018) of around 6.3 billion euros, Benteler Automotive is the largest of the three Benteler divisions. The division develops and produces components and modules in the areas of bodywork, chassis, engine and exhaust systems as well as solutions for electric vehicles.

Benteler Automotive includes the areas

  • Chassis & Modules: Chassis components optimized for lightweight construction, development and assembly of complex modules (e.g. axle modules or front-end modules)
  • Structures: Lightweight solutions for the vehicle structure in steel and aluminum that increase safety in the vehicle
  • Engine & Exhaust Systems: Individual components and systems for the drive train (engines and exhaust systems) to reduce emissions and CO 2
  • Electro-Mobility: Systems optimized for lightweight construction for use in electric vehicles (scalable battery modules, electrified front and rear axles, battery storage systems with thermal management)
  • Mechanical Engineering: Glass machine construction; Machines, systems and tools for the automotive industry
  • Lightweight Protection: Weight-optimized products for vehicle protection

Steel / Tube

The Benteler Steel / Tube division employs around 3800 people in Europe and the USA. The division has seven production sites and seven sales offices and generated sales of 1.2 billion euros in 2018.

Benteler Steel / Tube develops and produces steel as well as standardized and custom-made seamless and welded steel tubes for a wide range of applications, for example in the chemical and petrochemical industry, in vehicle and mechanical engineering as well as in the energy industry. In addition, so-called processing operations are carried out: for example, surface coatings, the bending of U-tubes or coiled tubes, cutting to the desired lengths or processing of the tube ends.

Benteler Steel / Tube includes the areas

  • Energy: Pipes for the production of crude oil and natural gas (drill pipe, pipe tour - casing, tubing, carriers for shaped charges - hollow carriers - for perforation systems ), for pipelines and for heat transfer in energy generation plants and in the chemical industry (boiler tubes, heat exchanger tubes , Multi-Lead Rifled Tubes - internally ribbed tubes for use in high-pressure boiler systems and power plants with fossil fuels, individually curved tube coils).
  • Automotive: Custom-made tubular steel solutions for vehicle construction (including engine drive shafts, lines and injection tubes, camshafts, structural parts for chassis, belt tensioners, sleeves for airbag generators and hood stands, precision tubes for steering and gas springs).
  • Industry: with the sub-areas of construction (steel pipes for machine and plant construction, for the construction and machining industry, for wind turbines) and hydraulics (corrosion-protected cylinder pipes, piston pipes, line pipes for agricultural and construction machinery and commercial vehicles)

Glass processing equipment

The Glass Processing Equipment business unit generated sales of around 61 million euros in 2018. The division develops and builds glass processing machines and systems for flat glass that are used in the construction, automotive, solar and display glass industries. For the areas of architectural glass, automotive glass and technical glass, grinding machines, drilling machines, washing machines and screen printing machines are offered, as well as linked processing lines (combinations of machines), CNC-controlled processing centers, systems for the production of laminated glass , systems for the assembly of solar modules, mirror lining lines, production lines for automotive glass (Windshields, side and rear windows) as well as handling systems for the automated loading of the systems and production lines (robots, portal stackers, specialized systems for automotive glass).

Locations

Benteler is represented at around 100 locations in around 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. In Germany, Benteler operates branches (factories, sales and engineering offices, warehouses, administrative locations) in 23 cities. Benteler plants are located in the German cities of Paderborn-Talle , Bielefeld , Düsseldorf , Cologne , Warburg , Saarlouis , Siegen-Weidenau , Lichtenau-Kleinenberg , Eisenach and Schwandorf (automotive and glass processing) as well as Neuhaus / Paderborn, Lingen , Dinslaken and Bottrop (Steel / Tube).

Others

Research and Development

In 2018 the Benteler Group invested 96 million euros in these areas and applied for 81 patents. Research and development activities focus on the areas of lightweight construction, safety and efficiency in automotive technology and material development in the steel / tube area.

Social commitment and sponsoring

At the University of Paderborn, the company has been funding an endowed professorship on the subject of lightweight construction in automobiles since 2007 . Benteler is also the main sponsor of the UPBracing team at the University of Paderborn , which participates in Formula Student events every year with a self-designed racing car . Benteler has been the name sponsor of the Benteler Arena of SC Paderborn 07 since 2012 .

In Paderborn / Neuhaus Castle, Benteler has been running the “Rohrspatzen” daycare center since 2008.

Corporate structure

The Benteler Group's management holding company is Benteler International AG, based in Salzburg (Austria). The 2018 annual report shows 117 subsidiaries and affiliated companies.

The Automotive division comprises a total of 66 companies in 2018. In addition to the national automotive companies, there are companies belonging to the Aluminum Systems, JIT (Just-in-Time-Manufacturing), Lightweight Protection and Mechanical Engineering divisions, joint ventures with Chinese companies: Benteler JianAn Automotive (since 2015), Shanghai Benteler Huizhong (since 2002) and the joint venture with the German SGL Group, the end of which was announced by the partners in November 2017 (through the sale of Benteler's shares). In 2018, the Steel / Tube division comprised 8 companies. In 2018, the Distribution division comprised 27 companies, including the national subsidiaries and a 75 percent stake in the Swedish steel pipe trading company Heléns Rör (the remaining shares are held by the steel group SSAB ). The "Distribution" division was sold to the Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group on November 29, 2019 (see under "Consolidation and development of the main business areas").

Web links

Commons : Benteler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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