Brennet (company)

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Brennet AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1888
Seat Wehr - Brennet, Germany
management Stephan Denk ( CEO )
Number of employees 533 ( FY 2009)
sales € 42.0 million (FY 2009)
Branch Textile industry
Website www.brennet.de

The Brennet AG is an established in 1888 the German manufacturer of colorful woven and piece-dyed apparel fabrics, bed linen and workwear family-owned and based in Wehr -Brennet, Waldshut , Baden-Wurttemberg . The company is a fully integrated textile company that carries out every production step from yarn manufacture to the finishing of the fabric itself in its factories on the Upper Rhine and in Wiesental.

Company history

Predecessor company and foundation

The company began in 1873, when Carl August Hipp, one of the company's founders, acquired a home textile industry in Görwihl. After he had previously bought hand-woven fabrics from the Hotzenwald in order to have them finished and sold in his Rottweiler manufacturing shop, this was an advantageous purchase. In 1875 Anton Denk married Hipps sister Anna Maria and thus came into contact with the Hipp family.

After hand-weaving lost its importance due to increasing industrialization, Denk and Hipp acquired the "Fährländer & Bauer" weaving mill together with Schenz, a former apprentice of Carl Hipp. This was equipped with 100 looms , was located near the Waldshut – Basel railway line, had the option of using water power and a population willing to work. A year later the company "Mechanische Buntweberei Brennet, CA Hipp and Co." the largest industrial employer on the Upper Rhine .

Three years later, the Öflinger colored weaving mill "Leupold & Cie" with 200 looms was taken over. In 1888 the name was changed to "Mechanische Buntweberei Brennet" (MBB) and the company was converted into a family-owned company. A year later, MBB acquired the "Baumgartner & Co" weaving mill in Wehr and then expanded it into a large-scale weaving mill. The takeover of the yarn spinning mill "Krafftschen Kammgarnspinnerei Hausen " followed in 1894, which enabled the company to produce its own yarn. In 1903 the equipment was installed in the Brennet plant .

Pumped storage plant

To supply the weaving mill with energy, Anton Denk had a pumped storage plant built in the 1920s. The high basin of the facility had a capacity of 18,000 m 3 and was located on the Humbel , a hilltop with an altitude of 400 meters west of Öflingen . The pumped storage plant went into operation in early 1925. After the plants in Heidenheim an der Brenz (1908), Neckartenzlingen (1914), Fridingen an der Donau (1921) and Tübingen (1923), it was the fifth pumped storage plant in Germany. At the end of 1932, a sinkhole collapse caused the high basin to break. In the absence of profitability, the pool was not repaired. In the 1990s, the high basin was dismantled.

Investment projects since the 1920s

In 1927 the weaving mill "Vortisch & Co." became the property of MBB and was converted into a Mako spinning mill.

Despite the high unemployment due to the global economic crisis, MBB achieved a high level of employment in 1932 with 1760 employees. In 1937 "Lampertsmühle AG" was taken over in Kaiserslautern .

Major investment projects in the 50s and 60s were the expansion of the weaving mill in Brennet and the construction of the dye works hall and the boiler house in Wehr.

Since renaming to Brennet AG

In 1973 the name was changed from MBB to Brennet AG. In 1984 the company acquired a factory site in Berlin. In 1987 Stephan Denk became a board member and in 1991 also chairman of the board. Brennet AG thus passed into the fourth generation of the Denk family. In the following two decades, renovations and investments were made on the Upper Rhine and in the Wiesental. In 1995, company collective agreements were concluded for the first time .

In 1998, the weaving mill in Berlin was shut down and thus centralized in Wehr. In the same year, a modern and environmentally friendly waste disposal system was installed in Hausen. In 2001 the Brennet AG textile museum was built. In 2007, after 70 years of affiliation with Brennet AG, the Lampertsmühle spinning mill in Kaiserslautern was handed over to the two managing directors Thomas Lange and Ludwig Junghäni in a management buy-out process.

Planned closure

At the beginning of May 2011 there was a major fire at the Brennet plant in Hausen, in which around 1,180 tons of cotton were burned and damage amounting to millions. Parts of the building had to be demolished. At the beginning of November 2011, Brennet announced that it wanted to give up its factory in Hausen. The production of the spinning mill was subsequently stopped on March 31, 2012. Shortly thereafter, it became public that Brennet would cease all operations at the end of 2012.

In August 2012 it became known that Stephan Denk and Kurt Engelhardt had founded Brennet Fashion GmbH at the same address (Basler Strasse 7 in the Brennet district of Wehr).

Works

The company has three plants:

  • Cotton yarns and mixed yarns ( polyester / cotton) are produced in the spinning mill in Hausen .

The spinning mill has 17 compact ring spinning machines with 1008 spindles / machine each. Around 1,135 tons of yarn are currently produced each year.

  • The Vorwerk, the yarn dyeing and the weaving mill are located at the Wehr location. The chains for the weaving machines on warping machines , short-chain warping machines and warping machines are manufactured in the weaving shop and then finished in the sizing shop . The weaving mill comprises 172 jacquard , rapier and air-jet weaving machines. Every year around 7.1 million meters of fabric are produced at an average of 30 picks / cm.
  • The Brennet plant houses equipment, storage, dispatch, administration and sales. Every year, around 8.1 million meters of fabric run through the equipment. 7.1 million meters of this is in-house fabric, 0.5 million meters of purchased fabric and 0.5 million meters as contract equipment (fabric that is externally finished for other companies).
  • The company operates several sales outlets and a museum.

  • Aerial view of the Brennet plant

  • Aerial view of the Wehr plant

  • Aerial view of the Hausen plant

literature

  • Stephan Denk: Entrepreneurship and history using the example of "BRENNET" . In: The Markgräflerland Volume 1/2000; Pp. 13-17
  • Reinhard Valenta: An excellent document in German industrial photography: Paul Wolff's "Brennet" series from 1941 . In: The Markgräflerland Volume 1/2000; Pp. 18-22

Web links

Commons : Brennet AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b consolidated financial statements of BRENNET Aktiengesellschaft, Wehr / Baden, for the business year from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 . Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2010. (Published on September 7, 2010 in the Electronic Federal Gazette .)
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung, April 20, 2011: Pioneering in the wrong place
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung, November 8th, 2011: Brennet gives up spinning mill in Hausen
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung, November 9, 2011: District Office rejects Brennet criticism
  5. ↑ Badische Zeitung, March 30, 2012: Brennet Chronicle
  6. ^ Badische Zeitung, May 16, 2012: Off for Brennet GmbH
  7. ↑ New establishment: Brennet Fashion GmbH entry on lookerella.de