Bolta works

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Bolta Werke GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1921
Seat Leinburg , Germany
management Christian Falk
Number of employees > 1,200 (January 30, 2015)
sales € 179.6 million
Branch Automotive industry
Website www.bolta.com

The Bolta Werke GmbH in Diepersdorf in Nuremberg is a German company that deals with development and production of technical and coated injection molded parts made of plastic , electroplating busy painting and assembly. The company has more than 1,200 employees. According to self-portrayal, Bolta is one of the three largest electroplating companies of its kind worldwide and is Europe's number 1 plastic electroplater.

history

Bolta was founded in Nuremberg in 1921 by Johannes Bolten (1893–1982), initially to make combs from Bakelite . Bolten emigrated to America in 1929 , where the active evangelical Christian became an American citizen as John Bolten and a successful business founder and manager. But he did not give up the Bolta works in Nuremberg. From 1936 Bolta-Werke presented Cameras ago (Boltavit, Photavit) . After the declaration of war against America in 1941, Bolten lost access to his company, which, as an important military operation, continued to manufacture cameras - probably with the use of slave labor. After the end of the war, the Soviet Union therefore demanded the machine park as reparations . From America, John Bolten succeeded in preventing this and restarting production at the Bolta works shortly after the end of the war.

From 1950 Bolta Werke household plastic items, from 1952 plastic profiles (came to the production range PVC ) and plastic threads ( Saran ). In 1958 the subsidiary Bolta Industrie- und Bauprofile was founded in Schönberg (Lower Bavaria) . For space and capacity reasons, Bolta moved to nearby Diepersdorf in 1964. A completely new plant (today's Plant 1) was built here. After this move, the company specialized in surface-refined injection-molded components for automotive and sanitary requirements. In 1967 the first semi-automatic plastic electroplating plant in Germany was put into operation and the company was expanded several times in the following years with new plants.

1975 acquired the Bowater Corporation Ltd. dependent Wickrather Handels- und Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft took a majority stake in Bolta. Since 1985 the company has been owned by the internationally active Puri family ( Purico, Melton Medes Group ), who were investigated in the USA between 2002 and 2008 for financial manipulation in the bankruptcy of Ecusta . Before that, Puri was involved in a fraud involving workers' pension funds in England . After the takeover, the subsidiary Industrie- und Bauprofile became independent within the Puri Group.

In 1994 a plant was taken over in Gottmadingen , Baden-Württemberg , which mainly produces copper and nickel foils and operates the MID hot stamping process. In 2004, Bolta and Nicro SA de CV founded the joint venture Nicro Bolta SA de CV in Mexico with its own injection molding and electroplating plant. Between 2004 and 2013, profit quadrupled from 30 to almost 120 million euros.

After expanding the injection molding capacities in 2008 (today's Plant 2), Bolta-Werke opened another plant in Leinburg in 2017 (today's Plant 3). This also functions as a competence center for future projects.

In 2013 Bolta was named among the Bavarian best 50 . In July 2013, Schönberger Industrie- und Bauprofile GmbH went into bankruptcy and was taken over by the Swiss APU AG in November 2013 . In September 2013, Bolta announced the establishment of the sister company Bolta US . Our aim in 2015 Tuscaloosa ( Alabama are opened). In 2016, the plants were held responsible for increased PFOS values ​​in neighboring Birkensee . However, this assumption could be refuted and there is no connection between the Bolta works and the increased PFOS values ​​in Birkensee Birkensee .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2015, source: Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b c d e self-presentation on bolta.de (accessed on February 14, 2014).
  3. ↑ Bolta-Werke on Facebook (accessed on February 13, 2014).
  4. ↑ Bolten was u. a. until 1963 director of the General Tire and Rubber Company and until 1975 chairman of the board of Standex International ; s. Bolten, John Sr. In: Who's Who in the East 1959, p. 94; John Bolten Sr. Dies Monday . In: Palm Beach Daily News v. November 17, 1982, p. 4; [Obituary] John Bolton, Sr. . In: Palm Beach Post v. November 18, 1982, p. C10.
  5. ↑ cf. the collector's website photavit.de (accessed on February 14, 2014).
  6. ↑ Bill Cunningham Says. In: The Free Lance-Star v. February 19, 1946, p. 5; also in: Abilene Reporter-News v. February 22, 1946, p. 11; Udo Winkel: Nuremberg 1945-1949. Post-war history sources. Part I: The transition phase up to the formation of the first city council April 1945 - June 1946. Nuremberg 1989, p. 115; Susanne Rieger, Gerhard Jochem: 2710 former "Eastern workers" in Nuremberg and Northern Bavaria are waiting for compensation . (2006).
  7. ↑ a b Article 50 years of success story (2008) on weber-manfred.de (accessed on February 14, 2014).
  8. ↑ Bundeskartellamt : Activity Report 1975. German Bundestag , 7th electoral period, printed matter 7/5390 v. June 16, 1976, p. 177.
  9. ↑ The Ecusta proceedings ended in comparison with a compensation payment of millions to the former employees by Puri; s. Leigh Kelley: Trustee: Ecusta was intentionally ruined . In: Blue Ridge Now v. November 10, 2004; Court OKs Lawsuit Deal . In: The Transylvania Times online edition v. February 19, 2008; Leigh Kelley: Ecusta suit reaches settlement . In: Blue Ridge Now v. February 28, 2008; for pension funds see Melton Medes fraud case ends . In: The Lawyer v. May 16, 1995 (all accessed February 13, 2014).
  10. ↑ Website Bolta Gottmadingen (accessed February 13, 2014)
  11. ^ Company website (accessed February 13, 2014)
  12. ↑ Diepersdorf-based company Bolta shines worldwide. In: nordbayern.de . 5th July 2013
  13. ↑ Bolta Werke want to expand in Diepersdorf - N-LAND . In: N-LAND . April 6, 2016 ( n-land.de [accessed November 21, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Bolta Werke GmbH, Leinburg / Germany: BOLTA - Bolta continues to grow: Another factory opens in Diepersdorf. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stmwi.bayern.de
  16. ↑ Financial difficulties at Industrie- und Bauprofile GmbH . In: Grafenauer Anzeiger v. July 31, 2013.
  17. ↑ Press release of the insolvency administrator from November 22, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apu-schoenberg.de
  18. ↑ TV report Bolta Coming to Tuscaloosa Co. . In: WVUA News v. September 23, 2013; Gemma Toulson: City businessman starting $ 40m Alabama venture . In: Nottingham Evening Post v. November 18, 2013, p. 23 (accessed February 14, 2014).
  19. ↑ Pollutants from Birkensee also pollute Reichswald. In: nordbayern.de. October 1, 2016.
  20. ↑ Birkensee needs to be renovated. In: n-land.de (accessed February 15, 2017).

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 59 ″  E