Bucher Industries
| Bucher Industries AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0002432174 |
| founding | 1807 |
| Seat |
Niederweningen , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 13,054 |
| sales | 3.06 billion CHF |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.bucherindustries.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Bucher Industries AG is an internationally active Swiss group the machine industry. The company, which is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, generated sales of around 3 billion Swiss francs in 2018 and employed over 13,000 people.
Field of activity
The group comprises four specialized divisions in industrially related areas of mechanical engineering and vehicle construction as well as an area with independent individual businesses:
Kuhn Agricultural Machinery is the world's leading supplier of specialized agricultural machinery for tillage, sowing technology, fertilization, crop protection and landscape maintenance, forage harvesting and feeding technology. Kuhn Group operates production facilities in France, the Netherlands, the USA and Brazil and is the group’s business area with the highest turnover.
Bucher Municipal is a leading global provider of municipal vehicles for cleaning and clearing traffic areas and for cleaning sewers. The product range includes compact and large sweepers, winter service equipment, sewer cleaning vehicles and garbage trucks. Manufacturing facilities are located in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.
Bucher Hydraulics is an international leader in the development and production of hydraulic equipment. The range includes pumps, motors, valves, drive units, elevator drives and controls with associated electronics. Production facilities are located in Europe, the USA, China and India.
Bucher Emhart Glass produces machines for the production and testing of glass containers. The range includes glass forming and inspection machines, systems, components and spare parts as well as advice and service for the hollow glass industry . The production facilities are located in Sweden, the USA and Malaysia. Emhart Glass is headquartered in Switzerland; the research and development center is in the USA.
Bucher Specials comprises independent retail stores: machines and equipment for the production of wine (Bucher Vaslin), systems and machines for the production of fruit juice, dewatering of municipal or industrial sludge and drying of food (Bucher Unipektin) as well as the trading business with tractors, control and Automation technology ( Jetter AG ) and agricultural machinery in Switzerland (Bucher Landtechnik).
history
The company was founded in 1807 when Heinrich Bucher-Weiss (1784–1850) took over a forge in Murzeln in Niederweningen. The forge was operated by three generations and entered in the commercial register in 1874. At the end of the 19th century, Bucher also began selling agricultural machines from foreign manufacturers.
Bucher expanded its activities in the first half of the 20th century. In 1951 the former family company was converted into a stock corporation.
In 1984 the group of companies adopted a holding structure . In 1986 the company opened to the public and went public . At that time, the group generated sales of CHF 430 million and had 2,730 employees. Bucher's expansion and takeover phase began with the IPO. This resulted in the division into today's four divisions and individual businesses from 1996 onwards.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Organization - Bucher Industries. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2018. In: bucherindustries.com. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .