Boge compressors
| BOGE KOMPRESSOREN Otto Boge GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1907 |
| Seat | Bielefeld , Germany |
| management | Wolf D. Meier-Scheuven, Olaf Hoppe, Rolf Struppek |
| Number of employees | 850 (550 in Germany) |
| sales | € 140 million (2019) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.boge.de |
Boge Compressors (spelling: BOGE KOMPRESSOREN Otto Boge GmbH & Co. KG) is a manufacturer of industrial compressors and compressed air systems in Germany. The fourth-generation owner-managed family company has its headquarters in Bielefeld , where the largest production site is also located. Boge employs around 470 people here, and around 850 people work for the company worldwide. Further production sites are located in Großenhain in Saxony , where the compressor stage competence center is located, and in China ( Shanghai ), where products are manufactured for the local markets there. In 2014 Boge achieved an annual turnover of 120 million euros with an export share of approx. 65%, two years later an annual turnover of 130 million euros. The products and services are available in over 120 countries around the world. Worldwide sales are organized by Boge sales companies with their own sales force and certified trading partners.
history
As a family company, Boge is in the hands of the fourth generation of the family. The managing directors are Wolf D. Meier-Scheuven, a great-grandson of the company's founder Otto Boge, Olaf Hoppe and Rolf Struppek. The foundation stone for today's Boge company was laid in 1907 by Otto Boge with the sale of door closers. In 1919 he developed and manufactured special tools for vehicle repairs. In the 1920s, Boge also started producing bicycles and a little later motorcycle production. At that time, car workshops were already in need of compressors to repair the frequent flat tires. Boge discovered this rapidly growing market in the 1920s and thus laid the foundation for the company's further development.
Otto Boge brought the first piston compressor onto the market in 1925. After the Second World War, in which the company was forcibly active in arms production, Boge discovered the industrial business. Boge manufactured compressors that reliably generated compressed air around the clock . The product range expanded continuously, as did the production capacities.
The milestones in the company's development include the introduction of screw compressor technology in 1973, the introduction of oil-free screw compressors in 1997 and the introduction of screw compressors for completely oil-free compressed air in 2011. Today, Boge produces compressor stages for screw compressors in Grossenhain, Saxony. Since 2013, Boge products have also included special gas generators for the production of nitrogen and oxygen.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Kristina Grube: Boge attracts future employees . In: Neue Westfälische , June 21, 2015. Accessed July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Quoted from Nora Nuissl: The compressor manufacturer Boge is growing against the industry trend . In: MM MaschinenMarkt , January 13, 2015. Accessed July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Record sales at Boge. (PDF) Boge Compressors Otto Boge GmbH & Co. KG, January 13, 2016, accessed on January 10, 2018 .
- ^ Bernhard Hertlein: "Operation Heynckes" at Boge. Retrieved on May 24, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Bernhard Hertlein: Change of boss at Boge Compressors. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 7.2 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 16.5 ″ E