Ceratizit
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| legal form | Joint stock company (SA) |
| founding | 2002 |
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Mamer , Luxembourg
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| Number of employees | 9,000 |
| Branch | hard metal |
| Website | www.ceratizit.com |
The Ceratizit Group is a stock corporation (SA) based in Mamer , Luxembourg , and produces powder metallurgical sintered parts for cutting tools , hard metal rods for the precision tool industry , hard metals for wear protection and for wood and stone processing. The company is the fourth largest carbide manufacturer in the world and the world market leader in the field of industrial wear , wood and stone processing . Plansee Holding AG has a 50% stake in Ceratizit SA , the remaining shares are privately owned.
history
Ceratizit SA was created in 2002 through the merger of the companies Cerametal (founded in 1931) and Plansee Tizit (founded in 1985). Cerametal was founded in Walferdange , Luxembourg by Nicolas Lanners. In 1948 the cooperation between Cerametal and the then Plansee GmbH took place. In 1979, Cerametal started production in the USA, and ceramic parts were manufactured for the first time in 1988. In 1996 Instrument AG in Bulgaria was integrated into Plansee Tizit, and at the same time the cooperation with Siel to form Siel Tizit Ltd. in Kolkata, India . After the establishment of Ceratizit SA in 2002, the company opened sales offices in Brazil , Poland , Hungary and the Czech Republic in 2003 . In 2007 new administration buildings were added in Mamer and Reutte , the Tooling Academy (a testing and training center in Reutte), as well as sales and distribution offices in the People's Republic of China , Mexico and Spain . In 2007, Ceratizit took over the private company Newcomer Products, Inc. based in Latrobe, Pennsylvania . In 2010, Ceratizit and CB Carbide pooled their Asian activities in the joint venture CB Ceratizit, in which Ceratizit and the shareholders of CB Carbide each hold a 50% stake. In 2011 a second Tooling Academy was opened in Tianjin, China.
As part of the expansion course, Ceratizit took over 50% of the solid carbide tool manufacturer Günther Wirth in 2012 in order to complete the value chain for round tools. Ceratizit advanced its expansion in the USA in 2014 with the acquisition of 80% of the shares in the solid carbide tool manufacturer Promax Tools, based in Rancho Cordova , California , United States . In 2015, the solid carbide tool manufacturer Klenk from Balzheim , Germany, and 67% of the shares in Cobra Carbide India were taken over. On October 13, 2017, the Ceratizit Group announced the takeover of the KOMET Group.
Locations
With over 9,000 employees (2018), Ceratizit SA operates 34 production sites in Europe , North America and Asia and has sales offices in 42 countries. The company holds over 1,000 patents worldwide and produced over 10 billion sintered parts in 2010. Every year the company invests almost 10 percent of its sales in the development of new products and technologies.
Products
Ceratizit specializes in the manufacture of hard metal sintered parts for industrial wear protection as well as tool solutions for machining .
- Products and tools for the machining sector
- Drilling tools
- Milling tools
- Thread cutting tools
- Turning tools
- Grooving tools
- Multifunction tools
Machining solutions from Ceratizit are used in the machining of wheelsets, bearings , turbines and rollers. Important sectors are the automotive industry , aerospace , tool manufacturers and the petro-industry. Here, hard metal parts from Ceratizit are used to process sleeves and pipes for oil and natural gas production.
Products for tool manufacturers:
- Unground and ground solid carbide rods
- Unground and ground hard metal rods with straight or spiraled cooling channels
- Blanks for milling tools
- Form blanks for special tools
Products for wear protection:
- Round blanks
- Blanks for printed circuit boards
- Blanks for cutting and punching tools
- Blanks for forming technology
- knife
- Nozzles
- Hob cutter
- Rolling rollers
- Carbide round and flat parts
The wear products are used in forming technology for cold impact tools , drawing dies and mandrels, cold forming tools and tools for the production of nails, rivets and screws.
Products for wood and stone processing:
- Saw teeth
- Wood drill plates
- Blanks for profiles and milling cutters
- Reversible edge knife
- Bars and strips
- Hammer drill plates
- Wall drilling plates
Sponsorship
The company WNT, which belongs to the Ceratizit Group, has sponsored the professional cycling team in women's cycling WNT-Rotor Pro Cycling since 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ceratizit.com . ( Facts & Figures [accessed June 20, 2018]).
- ↑ Annual Report of the Plansee Group 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ CERATIZIT - the story ( Memento from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CERATIZIT takes over US company Newcomer Products, July 11, 2007
- ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt, November 2, 2010 ( Memento of March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ceratizit: CERATIZIT \ press release. (No longer available online.) In: www.ceratizit.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016 ; accessed November 30, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ ceratizit: CERATIZIT \ subsidiary. In: www.ceratizit.com. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Ceratizit takes over the Komet Group. In: produktion.de. October 13, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
- ↑ CERATIZIT: Facts & figures. In: www.ceratizit.com. CERATIZIT, 2018, accessed on June 20, 2018 (English).
- ↑ ceratizit: CERATIZIT \ facts & figures. In: www.ceratizit.com. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
