Coperion

Coperion GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1879
Seat	Stuttgart , Germany
management	Kimberly K. Ryan, Edmund Berg, Ulrich Bartel, Stefan Rottke
Number of employees	1,324
sales	EUR 439.36 million
Branch	mechanical engineering
Website	www.coperion.com
	As of September 30, 2019

The Coperion GmbH is a German company with headquarters in Stuttgart , in the district of Feuerbach . Coperion GmbH emerged in November 2008 from Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG (Stuttgart) and Coperion Waeschle GmbH & Co. KG (Weingarten), as well as Hartmann Fördertechnik GmbH in Offenbach am Main. The company divides its offering into three areas: Compounding & Extrusion , Materials Handling and Service . The product range includes compounding systems and bulk material systems for the plastics, chemical, food and aluminum industries. The CEO is Kimberly K. Ryan.

history

In 1880 Hermann Werner (1848–1906) and Paul Pfleiderer (1848–1903) founded the company “Werner & Pfleiderer” - kneading and mixing machine factory in Cannstatt, which produced dough and sausage kneading machines according to Paul Pfleiderer's patent. In 1878 Paul Pfleiderer took over the patent granted in 1877 from the inventor Paul Freyburger from Stuttgart for 900 marks (for all time and in all countries).

The company is the world market leader for extrusion and compounding systems , bulk material systems , components and services. 75% of sales were generated abroad in 2019.

In 1985 Friedrich Krupp GmbH in Essen took over 50.1% of the machine factory.

In 2014, Coperion employed around 2500 people worldwide, 1200 of them in Germany.

In May 2007, Deutsche Beteiligungs AG , based in Frankfurt am Main, and the funds it manages, took over the Coperion Group. Coperion was previously owned by the British private equity firm Lyceum Capital from 2002 to 2007.

In October 2012, the US industrial group Hillenbrand took over the company from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG).

Products

The main product of the Competence Center Compounding & Extrusion is the z weiwellige S chnecken k neter (ZSK), a corotating, closely intermeshing twin-screw extruder for plastics production, refining and processing. Based on a patent from Bayer AG , Leverkusen, the product range has been continuously developed since the 1960s. Today the sizes ZSK 18 to ZSK 420 (screw diameter 18 mm to 420 mm) are available. The throughput of the machines varies, depending on the size, from one kilogram per hour to over 80 tons per hour.

The Competence Center Materials Handling specializes in the preparation and handling of bulk goods with all process steps from conveying and sifting through mixing and storage to dosing and thermal treatment of the products. Bulk material components such as rotary valves, distribution devices, gate valves, etc. complete the portfolio. More than 8,000 systems with annual capacities between <5,000 t and> 500,000 t have so far been implemented worldwide.

The Competence Center Service offers the associated services for all machines and systems from Coperion GmbH: from installation and commissioning to maintenance, service advice, spare parts service, training and modernization offers.

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Corporate presence of the Coperion Group

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Annual financial statements as of September 30, 2019 in the electronic Federal Gazette
↑ Paul Pfleiderer was a cousin of Otto Pfleiderer . He emigrated to London, his children took British citizenship in 1915 and the surname Pelmore . His grandson Gerald Keston Pelmore (1911–1941, killed as a British pilot in World War II) was the founder of the Bentley Drivers Club, which was the first branded automobile club; see. Martin Jung: Pfleiderer family item. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 349 ( digitized version ).
↑ Werner & Pfleiderer - kneading and mixing machine factory. Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , June 28, 1882, p. 6, accessed on December 11, 2012.
↑ 1873: Patent of Paul Freyburger, mechanic in Stuttgart, on a pretzel rolling machine , accessed on December 11, 2012.
^ Albert Gieseler: Kraft- und Dampfmaschinen , accessed on December 11, 2012.

[JA_19-1] Annual financial statements as of September 30, 2019 in the electronic Federal Gazette

[pp-2] Paul Pfleiderer was a cousin of Otto Pfleiderer . He emigrated to London, his children took British citizenship in 1915 and the surname Pelmore . His grandson Gerald Keston Pelmore (1911–1941, killed as a British pilot in World War II) was the founder of the Bentley Drivers Club, which was the first branded automobile club; see. Martin Jung: Pfleiderer family item. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 349 ( digitized version ).

[3] Werner & Pfleiderer - kneading and mixing machine factory. Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , June 28, 1882, p. 6, accessed on December 11, 2012.

[4] 1873: Patent of Paul Freyburger, mechanic in Stuttgart, on a pretzel rolling machine , accessed on December 11, 2012.

[5] Albert Gieseler: Kraft- und Dampfmaschinen , accessed on December 11, 2012.