ES automotive casting

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ES Automobilguss GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1992
Seat since 2020: Frankfurt am Main , Germany
management Muamer Kujevic
Number of employees under 100 (2019)
sales around 30 million euros (2018)
Branch foundry
Website www.esguss.de

ES Automobilguss , now Eisenwerk Erzgebirge 1566 GmbH , is a German automotive supplier belonging to the Prevent Group with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and the production facility in Schönheide's district of Schönheiderhammer in Saxony. The foundry produces differential gear housings, rocker arms and brake carriers for large automobile manufacturers and automotive suppliers.

history

Partial view of the plant in the Schönheiderhammer district

The origins of ES Automobilguss lie in the Schönheiderhammer hammer works built in the Ore Mountains in 1566 . Due to the location above the Eibenstock drinking water dam , annual production is limited to 25,000 tons of cast iron. The company operates a ferrous metal foundry with a production capacity of over 20 tons per day in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act . The main focus of production is the casting of differential housings for cars, of which around 7 million are delivered to automobile companies every year. This means that gear housings from ES Automobilguss are installed in every tenth newly produced car worldwide (as of 2013).

The company operates its own model building .

The company has been a subsidiary of the Prevent Group since November 2015 . After the conclusion of a collective agreement with the previous owners in May 2015, which had been preceded by warning strikes, they sold the company to the Prevent Group.

In August 2016, the company stopped delivering housings for the Volkswagen MQB 450 transmission , triggering a production stop in several VW plants.

In May 2019 the company was renamed "Eisenwerk Erzgebirge 1566 GmbH". The company has a profit transfer agreement with Bloukrans Ohlanga Capital Holding GmbH, Frankfurt / Main. This company belongs to the Prevent Group, its previous address is identical to the headquarters of the Prevent Group in Wolfsburg. ES Automobilguss GmbH, Schönheide can also be found on the website of the Prevent Group at the locations. The website is still Esguss.de.

Problems because of a VW order

In spring 2018, problems arose due to an ongoing order from Volkswagen to manufacture transmission parts. Deliveries to VW were discontinued. The problems raised by VW are seen as a reaction to the refusal to deliver to VW in summer 2016 in connection with a dispute between the foundry's owners and VW. The volume of the VW order accounts for more than two thirds of the foundry production. ES Automobilguss has around 400 employees in March 2018. The expiry of the existing supply contracts in 2018 was already known in 2016. The management has already submitted an application for short-time allowance to the employment agency. In the opinion of experts, the loss of this production volume can lead to an end to the foundry.

After VW terminated the supply contract without notice, ES Automobilguss laid off 160 of its 385 employees.

ES Automobilguss filed an application for an injunction with the aim that VW would have to accept the contractually agreed parts. In November 2018, the Dresden Higher Regional Court refused to issue the requested ruling in the second instance for an amount in dispute of 30 million euros. Due to its sudden interruption in the delivery of agreed parts to VW in 2016, VW had considerable production problems, so that VW felt compelled to agree a new regulation of the supply contracts with ES Automobilguss. The conduct of ES Automobilguss was, according to the antitrust panel of the court, an illegal threat with a sensitive evil. VW therefore did not illegally exploit its dominant position when terminating the contract in March 2018. The consequence of the de facto end of the delivery to VW led to the termination of a further 38 employees in November 2018.

Expansion of the product range

With the aim of more flexible production in small and medium-sized units and the possibility of also being able to manufacture ductile iron , ES Automobilguss announced investments of 10 million euros in autumn 2018, of which 3 million would be for a plant for the production of molds for the Potting process have already been implemented. The new electric melting furnace (OTTO JUNKER medium-frequency induction crucible furnace system) with 2 × 6,000 kg was put into operation in autumn 2019. With the investments, the company aims to open up new areas such as "construction equipment manufacturers, railway construction and the industrial sector in general". “Only nodular cast iron instead of malleable cast iron and various related processes; Malleable cast iron will disappear ”, is the assessment of RKW Sachsen.

Web links

Commons : ES Automobilguss Schönheiderhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint at Esguss.de , accessed on August 13, 2020
  2. ↑ Heike Mann: ES Guss Schönheide dismisses other employees Report of May 8, 2019 in the regional edition of Aue from Freie Presse , accessed on August 13, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Northdata.de on 2018 sales with just over 30 million euros and a loss of almost 15 million euros, accessed on June 10, 2020
  4. ↑ Relocation on January 14, 2020 , information from Northdata.de, accessed on June 10, 2020
  5. ↑ Products at Esguss.de , accessed on June 10, 2020
  6. ↑ References at Esguss.de , accessed on June 10, 2020
  7. ^ Gottfried Mayer: 450 years of iron works Schönheiderhammer. 150 years of malleable cast iron. 250 years of Bergakademie Freiberg . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2017, ISBN 978-3-86595-646-0 , p. 9
  8. ↑ a b c Online report of the Free Press from November 7, 2018 , accessed on November 8, 2018
  9. ↑ Report by the Erzgebirgskreis on the 2014 surveillance ( memento of the original from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzgebirgskreis.de
  10. ↑ Report on the website of the district of Erzgebirgskreis about the district administrator's visit to the company in 2013 , accessed on August 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ Company website under Portfolio Modeling , accessed on August 9, 2020
  12. ↑ Schönheid company now belongs to Wolfsburg Group , Freie Presse Chemnitz, regional edition Aue, 25 November 2015
  13. ↑ Supplier industry: Eastern Horizon buys with Reed Smith ES Automobilguss , January 25, 2016
  14. ↑ Do not carry out conflicts on the employees' backs! , IG Metall press release from August 23, 2016
  15. ^ Zoff with suppliers: VW shuts down Golf production. In: Handelsblatt . August 17, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Report on MDR.de from January 7, 2020, accessed on June 10, 2020
  17. ↑ Description at Webvalid.de and address information at Preventgroup.com , accessed on June 10, 2020
  18. ↑ Locations at Preventgroup.com , accessed on June 10, 2020
  19. ↑ Freie Presse, Chemnitz, March 28, 2018, p. 1
  20. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt, No. 13 and 14/18 of March 29, 2018, p. 1
  21. ^ Report at Automobil-Produktion.de , accessed on March 29, 2018
  22. ↑ Automobilwoche.de of March 28, 2018 , accessed on March 29, 2018
  23. ↑ Online report of the Sächsische Zeitung from November 8, 2018 , accessed on November 8, 2018
  24. ↑ Report of the Free Press from November 22, 2018 New layoffs at ES Guss in Schönheide after a court ruling , accessed on November 22, 2018
  25. ↑ Presentation on AMZ-Sachsen.de , accessed on June 10, 2020