Eckart (company)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1876 |
| Seat | Hartenstein , Germany |
| management | Wolfgang Schütt (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 1,701 (2019) |
| sales | 353.2.6 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Chemical company |
| Website | www.eckart.de |
The Eckart GmbH (proper spelling: ECKART GmbH ) is a chemical company in the Middle Franconia Hartenstein in Bavaria , which for Altana AG belongs. Powders, pastes and printing inks are manufactured for various industrial sectors.
history
The company was founded on August 6, 1876 by Carl Eckart as a small gold beater in Fürth, Bavaria . It was not until 1892 that the company was entered in the commercial register and at the end of the 1890s there was a change from manual to industrial production of gold bronze.
In 1920 the production of bronze powder started in Güntersthal near Hartenstein and a few years later the production of aluminum powder began .
Eckart began in-house research in the late 1950s. In the 1970s, the company began expanding overseas and acquired the Ohio Bronze Powder Company, based in Painesville , Ohio . Around ten years later, a new plant for the production of aluminum powders and pastes was opened in Wackersdorf in the Upper Palatinate. In the 80s, the company continued to expand and founded a sales office in London and took over the Italian company MEPOSA Metalli in Polvere, based in Milan .
In 1997 the Reynolds Metals Company took over a factory for the production of aluminum powders and pastes, and in 1998 the pearlescent pigments division of the Finnish chemical company Kemira, including the site in Pori, Finland . In 2001 the company was split into two independent groups. The effect pigments area kept the name Eckart, whereas the granules area has been known as Ecka Granules since then .
In 2005, Eckart GmbH was taken over by Altana AG for a purchase price of 630 million euros. Eckart was integrated into the company as the fourth Effect Pigments division, but continues to operate as a separate company. For Altana, this was the largest acquisition in the company's history to date.
In 2007, ECKART took over the effect pigments business of the British Wolstenholme Group. The acquired business comprised bronze and aluminum pigments.
Locations
- Eckart GmbH (Hartenstein, Bavaria)
- Eckart GmbH (Wackersdorf, Bavaria)
- Eckart America Corp. ( Painesville , Ohio )
- Eckart de Mexico Industries (San Pablo Xalpa)
- Eckart Benelux BV ( Uden , Netherlands )
- Eckart France SAS ( Saint-Ouen )
- Eckart Italia srl ( Rivanazzano Terme )
- Eckart Pigments KY ( Pori , Finland )
- Eckart Suisse SA ( Vétroz )
- Eckart Asia Ltd. ( Hong Kong )
- Eckart Zhuhai Co., Ltd. ( Zhuhai , China )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ALTANA AG: ALTANA Corporate Report 2019. In: www.altana.de. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Gilbert Krapf: Gold leaf, metal leaf and bronze colors from Fürth, Part IV . In: Fürth history sheets . No. 1 , 2010, p. 3-19 ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento of the original from January 10, 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.
- ↑ Wallstreet online: ALTANA Chemie completes acquisition of ECKART Group
- ↑ ALTANA website, press release: ALTANA acquires effect pigments business from Wolstenholme Group Ltd. , June 20, 2007.
