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ebm-papst group

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legal form Group of companies
founding 1963
Seat Mulfingen , Germany
management Stefan Brandl (CEO)
Stephan Arnold (CTO)
Hans Peter Fuchs (CFO)
Thomas Wagner (COO)
Johannes Pfeffer (CBO)
Number of employees 15,100 (2019)
sales € 2.18 billion (2019)
Branch Electrical appliances
Website www.ebmpapst.com

EBM-Papst ( original spelling ebm-papst ) is a manufacturer of electric motors and fans . It was created in 2003 from the merger of Elektrobau Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG (EBM), Papst Motoren GmbH ( St. Georgen ) and Motoren Ventilatoren Landshut GmbH (MVL). The company employs around 15,115 people worldwide, spread across 18 production sites (including in Germany, China , and the USA) and 57 sales locations. The head office is in Mulfingen im Hohenlohekreis , Germany.

history

Gerhard Sturm founded Elektrobau Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG together with Heinz Ziehl, the son of Emil Ziehl , in 1963 . The company, which then had 35 employees, concentrated on the development and production of small external rotor motors . In 1965 the first compact fans of the EC technology were developed, at that time still called "brushless DC motors".

In 1992 the ailing company Papst Motoren GmbH in St. Georgen in the Black Forest , which Hermann Papst had founded in 1942, was taken over. In 1985 Papst Motoren had a turnover of 180 million marks and employed 1,700 people. In 1993, only 750 employees were working at the locations of the formerly independent company in St. Georgen and Herbolzheim.

The Landshut plant was purchased from Alcatel SEL and the company was renamed Motoren Ventilatoren Landshut GmbH in 1997. In the following year, the first energy-saving centrifugal and axial fans with integrated electronics were developed on which, among other things, the EC- Fans are based.

Since 2003 the company has been called EBM-Papst. The three parts of the company were renamed ebm-papst Mulfingen, ebm-papst St. Georgen and ebm-papst Landshut . In 2007 the construction of an energy-autonomous factory for energy-saving fans in Mulfingen-Hollenbach began, which was put into operation in 2008.

Plant in Hollenbach

In 2007, EBM-Papst exceeded the sales threshold of one billion euros for the first time. Gerhard Sturm became chairman of the advisory board. Since 2008 only managers from outside the family have been employed in the management. The export quota of sales was 75% in the 2015/16 financial year.

In 2012, the company had two factories in China with 1,500 employees.

In 2013 the Zeitlauf company in Lauf an der Pegnitz was taken over, a family company founded in 1957 that specializes in planetary gears , spur gears and angular gears .

Products

Computer fan

Motors and fans from the EBM-Papst Group are used in a wide variety of applications. With almost 20,000 products, the company claims to have the largest range of fans in the world. EBM-Papst products are u. a. in ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration technology, in household appliances, in heating technology, in IT and telecommunications applications, in passenger cars and in commercial vehicle technology. The devices can be found in computers and refrigerators as well as in the Dresden Semperoper and on the roofs of Australian supermarkets.

The fans are mostly based on external rotor motors, as particularly compact axial, centrifugal and diagonal fans can be implemented. Motors for drive technology are sometimes also designed as internal rotors.

Energy-efficient and quiet, electronically commutated motors are increasingly being used as motors. These are available in versions for 1- or 3-phase alternating current and for direct current between 12 and 48 volts. Due to the already integrated electronics, EC motors have very good control and regulation properties, right up to integrated pressure, temperature or volume flow control. The integrated electronics also reduce the cabling effort compared to a comparable conventional solution. With the option of a bus connection, these units can also be networked and centrally controlled. New options can be set in a user-friendly manner via the bus system ( Modbus , also ebmbus ). Various computer programs are available for this purpose, some of which also allow the fan or motor to be configured wirelessly using a mobile phone.

Alternatively, classic AC motors for 1 or 3-phase alternating current are still available. The fans produced have axial or radial fan wheels between approx. 30 mm and 1250 mm in diameter and are also developed in-house. Cross-flow blowers, as used in facade ventilation, are also part of the product range. The fan wheels are made either from plastic, metal or as a metal-plastic material combination. This new combination enables high strengths, as are common with metal wheels, with variable formability at the same time.

In 2009 the "green" fan series HyBlade came onto the market. The runners, made of plastics with integrated aluminum reinforcement, reduce power consumption and are quiet. In spring 2011, a motor was presented with housing parts made of a wood-plastic composite material.

Sponsorship

EBM-Papst acts as a name sponsor for various facilities and events in southern German sport:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ebm-papst - Imprint. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  2. a b ebm-papst - Current data and facts. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christian Litz: Complicated family relationships (PDF) In: McK Wissen 01 Cluster . Rolf Antrecht, McKinsey & Company. Pp. 9-19. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  4. a b Manfred Stockburger: Gerhard Sturm, the windmaker from the Jagsttal - January 31, 2007
  5. a b c EBM-Papst reports record sales in: Badische Zeitung from June 12, 2012
  6. http://www.ebmpapst.com/de/company/facts_and_figures/facts_and_figures.html
  7. Zeitlauf press release ( memento of August 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) of October 26, 2007, accessed on August 11, 2018.
  8. ^ Homepage of the company ( memento of September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 11, 2018.
  9. Archive link ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. http ://www. Konstruktionspraxis.vogel.de/themen/antriebstechnik/motoren/articles/151139/