Blechwarenfabrik Limburg

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Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1872
Seat Limburg on the Lahn
management Hugo Sebastian Trappmann
Number of employees 300
sales 60 million euros (as of 2014)
Branch Metal processing
Website www.blechwaren-limburg.de

The Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH is an established in 1872 packaging manufacturer for chemical-technical products, based in Limburg an der Lahn in Germany . With over 300 employees, Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH is one of the largest industrial employers in the Limburg area.

history

1872-1903

Founder Joseph Heppel 1872

In July 1872, the master plumber Joseph Heppel applied to the Royal Office of Limburg for the construction of a workshop and shed behind his house in the Frankfurter Vorstadt in Limburg an der Lahn. From 1873 onwards he manufactured tins for the Rheingau canning factory in Erbach von Remy & Kohlhaas and the canning factory Max Koch Braunschweig. The first advertisements for measuring instruments were published in the Limburger Anzeiger in January 1877.

In 1898 the company moved into a new building with approx. 4,700 square meters in Diezer Straße 65 / Stiftstraße and from then on operated under the name Factory for sheet metal packaging lacquered u. printed sheets u. Tin posters, lithography and tin printing works by Joseph Heppel . At the same time, the Heppel Villa was built as a private house on the neighboring property .

1904-1923

Blechwarenfabrik's letterhead with reference to the company's founder until 1914

On January 1, 1904, Joseph Heppel sold his factory to a consortium consisting of Friedrich Obenauer and his son Albert, who had been running a material and dye business in Saarbrücken since 1864, and to Carl Deidesheimer from Neustadt an der Haardt . Albert Obenauer and Carl Deidesheimer became managing directors of the Blechwarenfabrik Limburg Joseph Heppel. At the time, the company was the largest industrial company in Limburg with 100 employees. In the years 1905 to 1909, various patents were filed internationally, including a 1906 patent for a tin can with a double bottom used to hold a heating cartridge that burns without air supply , which is still used today in the USA at Nescafe discard self-heating cans .

1908 was siding set up on the maintenance depot, and 1911, the largest flat-pressure quick press , taken, which had been previously built in Germany for metal printing operation. On February 2, 1913, Blechwarenfabrik Limburg bought Heinrich Peters' sheet metal packaging factory in Grötzenberg. With the entry in the commercial register on April 16, 1914, the company changed its name to Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH without the addition of "Joseph Heppel".

Before the First World War , the factory building on Stiftstrasse was expanded on both sides with two extensions for a printing and painting shop. In 1920 the Blechwarenfabrik Limburg acquired a patent for the production of synthetic wood and on March 20, 1922 founded the "Nassauische Kunstmanufaktur GmbH" (NAKUM) as a subsidiary for the innovative production of plastic parts using mold casting. With this technology, NAKUM was way ahead of its time and from then on manufactured wood-imitating advertising signs, wall calendars and coats of arms made of bioplastic on the site of the Blechwarenfabrik Stiftstrasse at the corner of Schaumburger Strasse.

On December 28, 1922, Blechwarenfabrik Limburg co-founded the “Badische Blechpackungswerk GmbH”, which was set up in Karlsruhe in cooperation with several other tin can manufacturers. In 1923 she also took part in the “Saarländische Kartonage & Blechemballage AG” in Saarbrücken.

1924-1933

On September 24, 1926, the NAKUM factory buildings were destroyed in a major fire. On April 1, 1927, Blechwarenfabrik Limburg took over the operation of closed factories from Schillerwerk AG in Godesberg. Initially rented, they were bought on August 1, 1927. In the same year, a second high-speed flat printing press for lithography was purchased in Limburg. From 1929 the company ran into difficulties as a result of the global economic crisis . The number of workers at the Limburg plant was reduced from 189 to 117 in 1930. The factory in Godesberg was closed for several weeks and only produced in the bucket department with 18 employees. Carl Deidesheimer died in June 1930. His son, Hermann Deidesheimer, previously authorized signatory in Godesberg, was appointed managing director in 1932.

At the instigation of Nassauische Landesbank, debt rescheduling took place in the spring of 1932, when half of the shares in the Badische Blechpackungswerk were sold to Gustav and Friedrich Obenauer. In August 1932, the voting rights of all shareholders for goods credits that had existed since 1930 were transferred to the iron wholesaler Otto Wolff OHG . As a result, Albert Obenauer resigned as the last family representative from the management on September 17, 1932, and Karl Wefelmeier was appointed managing director. With a contract dated December 14, 1933 between the shareholders of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg and the companies Otto Wolff and Obernauer on the takeover for the purpose of restructuring, Wefelmeier's shares, which he had owned since October 1933, were pledged to Otto Wolff. The Obenauer company took over shares of more than 27 percent. The remaining shares remained in private hands, 50 percent with the Obernauer family and 19 percent with the Deidesheimer group.

Blechwarenfabrik Limburg after a bomb attack in 1945

1934-1945

In 1936/37 the Blechwarenfabrik sold the branches Godesberg (1936) and Grötzenberg (1937). The turnover in 1936 was 1.6 million Reichsmarks .

At the beginning of the Second World War, the Blechwarenfabrik had released trucks on the basis of the Military Services Act, but otherwise did not carry out any direct war production during the entire war. Most of the production consisted of food packaging made from tin, cardboard and paper. Since November 1940, the company's cash book has included expenses for prisoners of war and forced laborers as well as separately listed expenses for the nearby prisoner of war camp Stalag XII A. From September 1944, shipping options were restricted due to road closures and a lack of wagons. Airborne alarms also increasingly prevented production. A bombing on December 23, 1944 caused only minor damage. During the last air raid on Limburg, one day before the Americans took Limburg, the plant was almost completely destroyed on March 25, 1945.

Blechwarenfabrik Limburg in 1961

1946-1964

From 1947 the company was rebuilt with the help of the employees. Production initially consisted of cans, the bases and lids of which were made from used American milk powder cans. For this purpose, these had been cut open and smoothed. With the currency reform in 1948 , Blechwarenfabrik Limburg began its economic upswing. This was followed by the production of Degussa drums made of black plate in a barrack in the courtyard. They indicated poison with a skull and crossbones printed on them. Among other things, they were filled with potassium. From 1951 the production range was expanded to include the manufacture of crown caps . The first buyers were the Limburg brewery Busch and, from 1955, Oberselters Heil- und Mineralquellen GmbH in Camberg. By 1953 all war damage had been removed. In place of the old storage shed, a massive three-story factory building with approx. 2,000 square meters of floor space was built by the end of 1954. Bucket production was relocated to the first floor. The bottle cap department moved from the attic of the old building to the second floor of the new building. The flat printing high-speed press from 1927 was still in use until 1954. After that, lithography was switched to more modern offset printing. At the time, 272 employees generated sales of DM 7.1 million.

1965-1979

In 1972 another production and storage hall with a basement and 5,000 square meters of floor space was completed to the west along Schaumburger Strasse, and the company celebrated its 100th anniversary. An anniversary publication was published on this occasion. With the relocation to the new hall and investments in new machines, the manufacturing process for crown cork production was modernized and the capacity increased. At the same time, shipping was switched to Euro pallets and the top floor in the old Stiftstrasse building lost its importance. In the mid-1970s, four Challahan punches produced up to 1.4 billion crown corks per year and the company achieved sales of DM 24.8 million with 343 employees.

Between 1975 and 1977 a total of DM 6.5 million was invested in new machines and systems, including a new printing press, a new paint shop and energy-saving drying systems based on ultraviolet radiation. A newly built finished goods warehouse with 3,000 square meters of storage space on Weserstraße was put into operation in February 1980. This increased the manufacturing and storage area of ​​the sheet metal factory to 27,000 square meters. In 1988 the Blechwarenfabrik acquired the “Heppel Villa” with the neighboring property at Diezer Straße 67 from the great-grandson of the company founder Joseph Heppel and restored the listed building from 1897.

1980-2000

The range was to be expanded with the production of plastic closures for sheet metal containers. For this purpose, Plant 2 with 2,057 square meters of floor space was built in 1992 on the former Lellmann site in Rudolf-Schuy-Strasse. The inauguration took place on November 12, 1992. The relocation of crown cork production to the new building and canister production in the vacated production hall created space for new investments and technical improvements.

On January 27, 1998, the Blechwarenfabrik submitted the building application for another new building, for the realization of which the Heppel Villa was exchanged for the property of the independent Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation in Limburg in Wiesletstrasse. The new building was inaugurated in June 1999. The construction costs amounted to 8 million DM, another four million DM were invested in new machines and systems, including an automatic film assembly. In June 2000, the building was selected by the Hessian Chamber of Architects for the "Architecture Day 2000" as worth a show.

2001 until today

Until the end of the 1990s, the Blechwarenfabrik still had its own fleet of 13 trucks. Since 2000, customers have been supplied by freight forwarders. In 2001, the first of four plastic injection molding machines for the production of plastic combination cans was purchased, as well as a six-color printing machine with a capacity of 7,000 metal sheets per hour and a CTP (computer-to-plate) system. On April 1, 2003, a new logistics center with an area of ​​5,400 square meters was moved into on Heinrich-Hertz-Strasse in the industrial area of ​​the neighboring town of Diez . Plant 2 was rented to Lebenshilfe Limburg from 2004 and RABA Verpackungen GmbH in Cologne was acquired. In 2006, the company invested in the fully automatic Lanico RCL production line for the manufacture of conical and cylindrical canisters and, under the name LIFOKA (Limburger Foil Lamination), in a new concept for the internal coating of metal sheets with PET foil as corrosion protection. In 2007 Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH founded Innovative Canmakers Europe (ICE SE.) In cooperation with the Italian Giorgio Fanti SpA, Bologna.

In 2008, a new production hall with 7,500 square meters of floor space was ready for occupancy in Neustadt (Wied) . RABA moved its location and the bucket production previously carried out in Cologne and Limburg was consolidated there. In the same year, the subsidiary ICE Russia LLC was added to expand activities in the Russian market. 56 employees produce packaging for the chemical-technical industry there. In 2010, Fabryka Puszek Skarbimierz Polska Sp. Z oo (FPS) in Skarbimierz Osiedle, Poland, acquired another location for the production of canisters and cans.

The main shareholder is still the company Obenauer GmbH, Saarbrücken, which is owned by the Hempel family, descendants of Friedrich Obenauer. In 2015, Hugo Trappmann handed over the position of General Manager to his son Hugo Sebastian Trappmann.

The groundbreaking ceremony for a new main plant in Limburg-Offheim took place in June 2016 . An administration building, a production hall and a high-bay warehouse were built there.

On May 1, 2018 Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH took over the Danish metal packaging manufacturer Baltic Packaging A / S from Copenhagen-Kastrup.

In November 2018, the company completed the new company complex and began the move from the old to the new building, which is expected to take around two years.

The factory processes around 20,000 tons of steel annually. The main product is special packaging for chemical-technical filling goods.

Headquarters in Limburg
New company headquarters in Limburg / Offheim
executive Director from ... to …
Joseph Heppel 1872-1904
Albert Obenauer 1904-1932
Carl Deidesheimer 1904-1930
Hermann Deidesheimer 1932-1934
Karl Wefelmeier 1932-1936
Anton Wilhelm Becker 1936-1965
Otto Hässlein 1936-1961
Willy Stolte 1965-1969
Hermann Tietz 1969-1991
Edmund Lang 1969-1994
Hans Lechner 1994-2000
Andreas Stedtfeld 1994-1996
Paul Trost 1996-2002
Hugo Trappmann 2000-2015
Hiltrud Weimar 2008-present
Thorsten Hack 2008-present
Thomas Fachinger 2008-present
Hugo Sebastian Trappmann 2015-present

Corporate structure

The main shareholders are Obenauer GmbH in Saarbrücken (79.99%) and the Trappmann family (20%).

The company produces internationally at five locations:

Company buildings

  • Heppel-Villa , representative villa of the manufacturer Joseph Heppel in Diezer Straße 67 in Limburg. The historic brick building was built by David Brötz from 1897 and is now a listed building (53071).
  • Georgsbrunnen, donated by the Limburg honorary citizen Joseph Heppel in 1910
  • Parts of the sculptural equipment at the Kreuzkapelle on the Greifenberg were donated by Joseph Heppel.

Products

The company produces chemical-technical packaging from the materials tinplate and plastic. a. for paints, varnishes and glazes:

  • canister
  • Bottles
  • Ring cans / ring buckets
  • Conical buckets
  • 2-component packaging
  • Plate lid cans
  • Composite can

In addition, bottle caps produced.

Limburg foil lamination

LIFOKA, a registered trademark of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg, is a process for the internal coating of tinplate containers in order to protect the sheet metal from corrosion. In this process, a 12 μm thick PET film is applied to the sheet. This process enables products that are not compatible with the conventional lacquer coating to be filled into a container with a PET inner coating.

Awards

literature

  • Marie-Luise Crone: Highlights from the history of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH 1872–2012 . Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH, 2012 ( preview [PDF]).
  • Apprenticeship companies presented: Train qualified young people yourself: Vocational training is very important to Blechwarenfabrik Limburg. In: Wirtschaft in Mittelassau vol. 66 (2006), no. 5, pp. 5-6
  • 100 [hundred] years of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH [1872 - 1972]. Blechwarenfabrik (Limburg ad Lahn), Limburg 1972

Web links

Commons : Blechwarenfabrik Limburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '59.63 "  N , 8 ° 3' 10.76"  E