Dillinger Hut

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AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke
legal form Corporation
founding 1809
Seat Dillingen Germany
GermanyGermany 
management Tim Hartmann (Chairman), Martin Baues, Peter Schweda, Günter Luxenburger

Reinhard Störmer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Number of employees 5,457 (2018)
sales EUR 2,202 million (2018)
Branch Steel industry
Website www.dillinger.de

General view of the Dillinger Hütte from Saar polygon from

The Dillinger Hütte (company: AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke ) is a steelworks in Dillingen with a history of over 300 years. Dillinger Hütte is the largest heavy plate mill in Europe. In the rolling mill heavy plates are produced t with a volume of about 2 million annually. The company was founded in 1685 and was the first German company to issue shares in 1809. The first continuous casting plant for slabs was put into operation in 1962. In 1998 another plant for 400 mm thick slabs was added. In 2010 the first casting of a 450 mm thick slab took place, again a world record and in July 2017 a plant for slabs up to 600 mm for what is currently the thickest continuously cast slab in the world. The main units of the rolling mill are two four-high stands . With a roll width of 5.5 m and a maximum rolling force of 108 MN (approx. 11,000 t), the roughing stand is one of the largest in the world.

Dillingen is the only pig iron production site in Saarland . The pig iron required is produced by ROGESA Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH , which is 50% owned by the AG. Around 4 million tons of pig iron are produced annually in the blast furnaces on the factory premises, of which around 2.5 million tons are refined into crude steel in the AG's steelworks .

Corporate structure

Shareholders

General view of the Dillinger Hütte from the top of Litermont from

The parent company of the AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke is DHS - Dillinger Hütte Saarstahl AG , which holds 95.28% of the shares in the company. A further 4.72% of the shares are in free float.

The largest shareholder in DHS is Saarstahl AG with a stake of 33.75%, the second largest shareholder is the steel group ArcelorMittal with 30.08% of the shares, and 26.17% of the shares are held by SHS - Stahl-Holding-Saar GmbH & Co KGaA (formerly SHS - Struktur-Holding-Stahl GmbH & Co. KGaA). 10.00% of the shares are held by the company itself. The SHS is 100% owned by the Saar Montan Foundation . In fact, the Montan-Stiftung Saar thus majority owner of Dillinger Hütte, as it in the context of so-called. "Cabin solution" on the SHS 26.17% and the Saarstahl AG holds 33.75%, that together 59.92%.

Holdings

There is mutual interdependence with Saarstahl AG, in which Dillinger Hütte has a 25.10% stake. Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl each hold 50% shares in ROGESA Roheisengesellschaft Saar . The management of ROGESA as an unemployed company is in the hands of Dillinger Hütte. The pig iron required for the steel production of both companies is produced in the blast furnaces on the factory premises. The ROGESA turn owns shares in which is also located on the premises Central Saar . The purchasing company of Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl mbH is operated together with Saarstahl. The group subsidiary Dillinger France , formerly GTS Industries, operates another rolling mill in Dunkirk . Furthermore, Dillinger Hütte is a 50% shareholder in Europipe GmbH , Europe's largest manufacturer of large-diameter pipes with locations in Germany, France and the USA.

Administration and Sales

Central tasks such as human resources, finance and general administration are taken over by SHS - Stahl-Holding-Saar. Essential core processes such as production and sales are carried out independently by the sister companies Saarstahl and Dillinger Hütte. The company's products are marketed under the brand name Dillinger .

Products

ROGESA blast furnace 5 on the Dillinger Hütte factory premises

The most important products of Dillinger Hütte are heavy plate . Together with its French subsidiary Dillinger France , the smelter produces well over two million tons of heavy plate in the thickness range from 6 to 440 mm every year. The plates are used in drilling rigs, ships, petrochemical plants, bridges and heavy machinery, and another area of ​​application is the production of heavy plates for large-pipe pipelines . A special rolling technique, so-called thermomechanical rolling, is used. The sheets produced combine mechanical strength with processing properties ( bending , welding ).

Pig iron and steel as preliminary products for sheet metal production are produced by Dillinger Hütte or its subsidiary Rogesa, which operates the blast furnaces in Dillingen. Other products manufactured in Dillingen are cast slag buckets and semi-finished products such as pressed parts, bottoms and casing sections for container construction .

Selected examples of the use of Dillinger Hütte steel:

history

Old Castle Dillingen / Saar, "nucleus" of the Dillinger Hütte
Dillingen / Saar, Former director's villa of the Dillinger Hütte in the park of the old castle, rear

In 1685, the French King Louis XIV gave the Marquis Charles Henri de Lenoncourt permission to build an ironworks with a furnace at the gates of the Saarlouis fortress . The location factors for founding the ironworks were good. The Prims river provided the necessary hydropower , the forest of huts provided the firewood for the smelting furnaces and the ore deposits in the immediate vicinity provided the raw materials for production.

The first products were initially wrought iron, nails and cast goods such as take plates , pots and pans. Production was only gradually optimized. With the construction of the first sheet rolling mill on the European continent in 1802, sheet metal determined the development of the plant. With Napoléon Bonaparte's approval , Dillinger Hütte became one of the first public companies in Europe in 1809. In 1828 the company took on the name Anonymous Society of Dillinger Hüttenwerke . From 1815 Dillingen belonged to Prussia through the Second Peace of Paris and over time the smelter became the largest Prussian black and tinplate producer . The latest rolling mills and blast furnaces were purchased and by the end of the 19th century the workforce had grown to over 2,500 employees. The so-called Dillinger sheet metal gauge with 24 thicknesses has long been recognized as the decisive standard throughout Europe. The Dillinger Hüttenwerke fire brigade has existed since 1864 .

Dillinger Hütte was active in the social field at an early stage: Aid and pension fund were set up, as well as a company hospital, company apartments and its own school. During the Second World War, 65% of the hut was destroyed. Almost 200,000 grenades fell on the factory premises. The result was months of tidying up and a completely new beginning.

After the war, Dillinger Hütte continued to focus on the future of steel: with world firsts such as the first continuous slab caster in 1962, the commissioning of the heavy plate mill in 1971, the strongest roll stand in 1985, the new continuous slab caster in 1998 for the world's thickest slabs and the world's largest milling machine for sheet metal edges in 2005. The driving force was Jean Lang , who joined Dillinger Hütte in 1946 as a young production engineer and became its technical director in 1967, chairman of the board in 1974, chairman of the supervisory board and chairman of the supervisory board of Saarstahl in 1989 (until 1993 with Saarstahl bankruptcy administration 1993-2001 and chairman of the board of trustees of the new Montan Foundation -Saar 2001-2007). In 2014 the Dillinger Hütte subsidiary Steelwind Nordenham manufactured the world's largest monopile in its factory at the mouth of the Weser .

Trivia

The workers at the Dillinger Hütte are traditionally called “hut bears”. It was therefore natural to name the company day-care centers established in 2006 and 2011 as "Kleine Hüttenbären" and "Kleine Hüttenbären 2".

In the port of Saarlouis / Dillingen , the smelter has extensive handling facilities, especially for the delivery of bulk goods iron ore and coal.

literature

  • AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (publisher): "For the 275th anniversary of Dillinger Hütte - 1685–1960", Dillingen 1960.
  • AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Ed.): "300 Years of Dillinger Hütte - A Review", Dillingen 1985.
  • AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (ed.): "325 Years of Dillinger Hütte", Dillingen 2010.

Web links

Commons : Dillinger Hütte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b The most important Dillinger data at a glance .
  2. ↑ SHS Stahl-Holding Saar, shareholder structure ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Holding website. Retrieved November 17, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dillinger.de
  3. ↑ Company portrait of SHS - Stahl-Holding-Saar on www.kompetenznetz-mittelstand.de
  4. ↑ https://www.dillinger.de/d/de/produkte/anwendungsgebiete/index.shtml
  5. ^ Walter Kiefer: Dillingen, Hütten und Gartenstadt, 100 years of photo documents . Dillingen 1996, ISBN 3-00-000669-9 .
  6. ^ Stahl-Holding Saar: Jean Lang passed away . In: steel and iron . tape 136 , no. 6 , 2016, p. 6 .
  7. ↑ Oldenburg Economy No. 10 October 2014, page 16

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 2 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 28"  E