Mining machines Dietlas
| Mining machines Dietlas | |
|---|---|
| legal form | VEB , from 1990 GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | Decline in demand |
| Seat | Dorndorf , Germany |
| Number of employees |
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| Branch | Large equipment construction |
Mining machines Dietlas was a company for the manufacture of mining machines based in Dietlas , a district of the Krayenberg community in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
history
The Hasenclever company from Düsseldorf had been storing and producing from 1939 on the Wintershall AG potash mine, which was built in 1897, commissioned in 1905 and shut down in 1926 in Dietlas machine tools . On March 11, 1948, SAG KALI bought the plant for 1 million RM as Dietla's mechanical workshop .
When, at the beginning of the 1960s, the East German potash industry was converted to highly efficient mobile large-scale mining equipment in the form of drill trucks , deep-shovel loaders and trucks imported from France, the Federal Republic of Germany and Sweden, the demand for means of production from GDR production grew. Mining machinery Dietlas was selected for the development and production of the large underground mining equipment required for the East German potash industry and expanded with generous investments.
From 1968 BWM Dietlas developed from a small to a medium-sized enterprise. The total workforce grew to around 600 in the following years. The plant was connected to the Feldabahn .
A special feature of the development of the large mobile devices in the BWM was the close scientific and technical cooperation with the mining operations of the Kali combine . So, at relatively short intervals, newly developed effective mining equipment was created, which was tailored to the particularities of the mining conditions in the potash pits. In addition to the large mining equipment for the extraction and intermediate conveyance of crude potash salt , special vehicles were developed and built for the rationalization of auxiliary and secondary processes. Examples include blast hole charging vehicle crane truck with a stage and rob the vehicle of the shovel loader based on Bereißen the roof, a development that significantly improved the First safety in the mines and in the 1990s in the potash mines of the K + S was introduced.
Up until 1990, around 1700 mobile mining devices had been produced in the state- owned company Bergwerksmaschinen Dietlas on the basis of its own new developments.
In the mid-1980s, the manufacturing companies in the GDR were commissioned by the state to manufacture consumer goods. VEB Bergwerksmaschinen Dietlas developed and produced the Rhön Universal load tent trailer from 1988 to 1990 as part of the production of consumer goods in small numbers .
In 1990 VEB Bergwerksmaschinen Dietlas was converted into a GmbH. This was privatized in 1993 with the same name . BWM's only customer base up to then, the potash and rock salt companies, which have now been combined in Mitteldeutsche Kali AG , has been greatly reduced. The following pits of the former potash combine were closed: The potash works in Merkers , one of the largest in the world, the mine in Springen , Roßleben , Sollstedt , Bischofferode , Volkenroda and Bleicherode . The need for mining equipment and its spare parts fell drastically and could no longer employ the approximately 500 employees at BWM Dietlas. Layoffs of employees were inevitable.
In the search for new markets, shredding technology was developed and produced in the Dietlas plant with the partner from Recklinghausen . The mobile shredding technology in particular fitted into the BWM production program. In addition, stationary crushing and screening plants for building rubble were developed and built as required.
The product development and market acquisition of new devices and systems required high investment costs that could only be covered by loans. When the Treuhandanstalt Berlin made 4 million DM due in 1997 , Bergwerksmaschinen Dietlas GmbH only had the full execution . The company was continued without production interruption as "Bohr-, Transport- und Zerkleinerungstechnik GmbH Dietlas" with around 150 employees.
The factory property in Dietlas was originally designed for around 500 employees in development, production, sales and administration. With the market-related reduction in the number of employees, the property also had to be adapted.
In 2005 the successor company of BTZ GmbH Dietlas, "Bohr- und Anlagentechnik GmbH", moved to the industrial area in Merkers . An industrial wasteland remained in Dietlas and was demolished in June 2013. Today there is a photovoltaic system on the site .
The former porter's building
Buildings from the times of potash mining (around 1910)
Administration building of the VEB Bergwerkmaschinen
Demolition work on the factory building, July 2013
