Erndtebrücker Eisenwerk

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Erndtebrücker Eisenwerk

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1936
Seat Erndtebrück , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Christopf Schorge, Harald Stolten, Ralf Pulverich, Michael Hof
Number of employees 1497, according to own information, 2000
sales 485.7 million euros
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Website www.eew-group.com
As of June 30, 2014

The EEW Group or Erndtebrücker Eisenwerk GmbH & Co. KG is a metal processing company. It specializes in the production of steel pipes and is known as one of the leading international manufacturers of longitudinally welded steel pipes. The family-run company has its headquarters at the main factory in Erndtebrück in North Rhine-Westphalia . It employs around 1500 or, according to its own information, around 2000 employees.

history

The roots of the Erndtebrücker Eisenwerk lie in the forging company "Erndtebrücker Eisen- und Blechwaren GmbH" founded in 1936. When the demand for steel pipes in the oil and gas industry increased significantly in the mid-1970s, the company switched its production program from metal containers to longitudinally-welded, powder-welded pipes. In 2001, with the establishment of a plant in South Korea, the first foreign production site was established. In 2010 the Geisweider company “Pickhan Umformtechnik” and in 2014 the Weidenau “ Bergrohr GmbH ” were saved from business failure or insolvency and taken over by the group of companies.

Other pipe works were also added abroad and in Rostock. These are located in Malaysia (since 2010), Saudi Arabia (2013), England (2014) and South Korea (2015). The group of companies has a production capacity of more than 800,000 tons of steel pipes per year.

Traffic problems at the Erndtebrück location

The transport of components to the customer is a big problem for the EEW location in Erndtebrück, since the bridges and roads are partly in a desolate condition. These are usually transported as heavy loads to the nearest port or to other European countries. In 2015, a total of 550 special transports were carried out. It is part of the company criticized that the much-needed expansion of the now as Route 57 known remote village-Eder-Lahn-Straße ausbleibe. The bureaucracy of heavy haulage is also criticized. As a consequence, the first jobs have already been relocated to the Dutch coast in the town of Vlissingen . A hall was rented there for this.

Business areas

Oil and gas industry

With the production of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, the EEW Group is in its traditional market segment. In addition to pipes that serve as foundations for offshore drilling platforms , EEW products are used in pipelines , process engineering systems such as refineries and chemical plants, and in power plant construction. In addition to classic carbon steel , the company also processes stainless steels and clad steels.

Offshore wind industry

Monopiles in front of EEW Special Pipe Constructions in Rostock (2019)

When, in the course of the energy transition, the wind industry increasingly advanced into offshore areas at the beginning of the 21st century, EEW expanded its product range to include foundations for offshore wind turbines . To this end, the company founded a pipe factory in Rostock that specializes in the production of pipe components for this area of ​​renewable energies. At the Rostock-Überseehafen location , pipes with diameters of up to ten meters, a unit weight of up to 1,500 tons and a total length of 120 meters are produced. The company manufactured around 160  monopile foundations in 2015. The company's largest order to date was the construction of 116 monopile foundations for the Hornsea offshore wind farm . For this purpose, a total of 91,800 tons of steel were processed at the Rostock location from March 2017 to April 2018.

In addition to monopile structures, the EEW Group also produces steel pipes for jacket and tripile foundations. In cooperation with other players in the industry, EEW produced steel foundation structures for the wind farms Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 , Gode ​​Wind I and Gode ​​Wind II , Gwynt y Môr , Global Tech I and Walney .

Locations

In addition to the four production sites in Germany, the EEW Group has five other sites in the international centers of the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. Furthermore, as of the end of December 2015 there were eleven regional sales offices and 22 international agencies.

Overview

Germany

Great Britain

  • Teesside : Offshore Structures Britain (OSB)

South Korea

Malaysia

Saudi Arabia

  • Jubail : (EEW) Global Pipe Company (GPC)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c consolidated financial statements for the financial year from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. In: Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b c d Many hurdles for heavy transport. In: Siegener Zeitung . December 17, 2015, accessed March 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ EEW opens second plant in Korea . In: Siegener Zeitung. Wittgenstein edition . December 8, 2015, p.  6 .
  4. ↑ a b The European offshore wind industry - key trends and statistics 2015. (PDF) The European Wind Energy Association, February 2016, p. 7 , accessed on February 27, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ ironworks Bergrohr take GmbH. In: Siegener Zeitung . August 21, 2014, accessed March 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ EEW is forced to relocate. In: Siegener Zeitung . August 18, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ EEW receives major order. 116 monopiles for Hornsea wind farm Project 1. In: Siegener Zeitung . November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Tripods for offshore wind farm Global Tech I are set up. Int. Economic Forum for Renewable Energies, September 17, 2012, accessed on December 11, 2015 .
  9. ↑ EEW SPC. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Wind-Kraft Journal. 2004, accessed December 11, 2015 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 48.5 ″  E