Coroplast Group
| Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co. KG.
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1928 |
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Wuppertal , Germany
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| management | Natalie Mekelburger |
| Number of employees | 7,000 |
| sales | 540 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Plastics processing |
| Website | www.coroplast-group.com |
Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co. KG , or Coroplast Group for short , is the name of a company that has specialized in the production of adhesive tapes, cables and wires as well as wire harnesses. Coroplast Group (umbrella brand) with its three brands Coroplast Tape, Coroflex and WeWire has its headquarters and headquarters in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal . The company premises are still the production site, but also the headquarters of the three business areas and the central units. In addition, the Coroplast Group acts from here as the company's coordinative and cultural control center. The Coroplast Group employs around 7,000 people worldwide and operates primarily as an automotive supplier .
The Coroplast Group is considered the market leader in its industry . Among other things, the company supplies the MQB platform of the VW group, on the basis of which the VW Golf is manufactured. Other customers come from industry and the craft , especially from medical technology and roofing .
history
Coroplast Group was founded in 1928 as Fritz Müller Elektroisoliermaterial in Barmen , which is now a district of Wuppertal. The first few years were still influenced by the textile industry , which made Barmen an important industrial metropolis at the time. The Coroplast Group textile insulation hoses were the first to bring textile tapes to the market for winding electric motors.
During the 1930s, the company was one of the first to use and process polyvinyl chloride , commonly known as PVC , making it a global pioneer in plastics processing . This enabled high-quality insulating hoses and insulated cables to be produced for the German automotive industry before the Second World War .
At the end of the 1940s, the company was renamed Coroplast Fritz Müller . In the years that followed, PVC was calendered into foils , creating a basis for self-adhesive insulating tapes. In the case of adhesive raw materials, too, they did not rely on the previously common types of rubber , but on a new form of acrylates in aqueous dispersions . Here, too, Coroplast Group consolidated its pioneering role, as the use of solvent-free adhesives was a novelty from an ecological point of view.
This later laid the foundation for today's business areas. Over the years, conventional PVC has been supplemented by thermoplastic materials and elastomers . The plastic mixtures required for the production of various pipe systems are still largely produced in the company's own compounding plant. In parallel to compounding, calendering and extrusion , Coroplast Group has also established itself as an injection molding specialist for high-quality materials.
In 2020, the former business areas of technical adhesive tapes , cables & wires and wire harnesses from Coroplast will merge into independent brands under the Coroplast Group. The technical adhesive tapes division gets the addition of tape to the brand name, the cables and wires division is called Coroflex and the wiring harness division is named WeWire .
Managing directors
The management consists of:
- Natalie Mekelburger (Chair of the Management Board)
- Marcus Söhngen (Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and Head of Coroplast Tape)
- Torben Kämmerer (Managing Director and Head of Finance, Controlling, IT and Logistics)
- Thomas Mayer (Division Manager WeWire)
- Dr. Lei Berners-Wu (Business Unit Manager Coroflex)
Locations
Coroplast Group is an international company . In addition to its headquarters in Wuppertal, it has three service centers in Germany in Wolfsburg , Stuttgart and Großmehring near Ingolstadt . It also has agencies in the areas of connection technology ( Kruft , Ehingen ), insulation trade ( Hamburg , Planegg ), other industry & trade (Kruft, Planegg, Ehingen) and cable set components & connection technology automotive ( Friedrichroda ).
In addition, Coroplast Group operates thirteen international locations in Mianyang , Kunshan ( People's Republic of China ), Strzelce Opolskie , Dylaki ( Poland ), Hammamet , Soliman ( Tunisia ), Acámbaro , Celaya ( Mexico ), Rock Hill ( South Carolina , United States ) and Căușeni ( Moldova ).
There are over 30 representative offices and service centers around the world, mainly within Europe and in East Asia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management
- ↑ 90 years of Coroplast . Retrieved April 29, 2020
- ^ The management of the Coroplast Group . Retrieved April 29, 2020
- ^ Coroplast: Locations and agencies , accessed on March 31, 2016