Bilfinger Industrial Services

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The Bilfinger Industrial Services GmbH is a German industrial services company headquartered in Munich . It is a subsidiary of Mannheim-based Bilfinger SE and, together with Bilfinger Industrial Technologies, forms the Industrial segment .

The company currently has around 30,000 employees and in 2012 generated a total output of 2.7 billion euros. The sister subgroup Bilfinger Industrial Technologies , based in Frankfurt am Main , achieved sales of 900 million euros with around 8,000 employees.

The fields of activity are mainly in the areas of industrial services for Western , Central and Eastern Europe as well as North America . The scope of the services provided ranges from the construction and maintenance of industrial plants to special skills in technical noise protection.

history

The company emerged in 1956 from a merger of the two companies Rheinhold & Co. (founded in Hanover in 1887 ) and C. & E. Mahla GmbH (founded in Nuremberg in 1896 ). Both had belonged to the Vereinigte Korkindustrie AG (VKI) in Berlin since 1928 . In 1972 the name was changed to VKI - Rheinhold & Mahla AG and two years later it was taken over by Bayer AG in Leverkusen . In 1979 the company was converted into Rheinhold & Mahla GmbH . In 1991 the company became a public limited company . In 2002 Rheinhold & Mahla AG was taken over by Bilfinger Berger AG . In 2006, the name change which occurred Rheinhold & Mahla AG to Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services AG . In 2008, output exceeded the 2 billion euro mark for the first time, and the number of employees was just under 22,000. The company's headquarters are in Munich. As a result of the majority integration of the Austrian MCE AG with a service volume of around 700 million euros in 2009, the number of employees increased to more than 27,000. From 2010 the company traded as Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services GmbH. At the beginning of 2013, the company was renamed Bilfinger Industrial Services GmbH.

The administrative headquarters in Munich-Moosach are to be closed by the end of 2014. This affects around 250 administrative positions. Employees in the operational business are not affected by the restructuring.

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  1. a b [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bis.bilfinger.com  
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Bilfinger cuts 250 jobs in Munich , January 20, 2014 8:46 am, accessed on March 3, 2014
  3. Süddeutsche Zeitung : Bilfinger cuts jobs , December 11, 2013 9:40 am, accessed on March 3, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 44 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 58 ″  E