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EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0016440353
founding 1936 by Werner Oswald
Seat Domat / Ems , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (Chairwoman of the Management Board )
Ulf Berg (Chairman of the Board of Directors ).
Number of employees 2,648 (2019)
sales 2.15 billion CHF (2019)
Branch chemistry
Website www.ems-group.com

The Ems-Chemie is a Swiss group based in Domat / Ems in the canton of Grisons , its companies combined in the "Ems-Chemie Holding". This is the only part of the consolidated group listed company and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange listed . As of December 31, 2013, the market capitalization was CHF 7.4 billion . The main shareholders are "Emesta Holding AG" with 60.82% and Miriam Blocher with 8.89%.

organization

Ems-Chemie is represented in 22 countries and produces at 26 production sites in 16 countries, with the main site in Domat / Ems. In 2013, the Group's production focus was in Europe (Switzerland 46.2%, Germany 12.2%), followed by the USA (9.2%) and Asia (China 7.3%, Japan 6.6%). The Group's largest sales markets are Germany (21.9%), China (14.0%) and the USA (11.9%).

The Ems Group is divided into the business areas of high-performance polymers (Ems-Grivory and Ems-Eftec), with sales of 1.6 billion CHF and specialty chemicals (Ems-Griltec and Ems-Patvag), with sales of 0.3 billion. CHF structured. For the automotive industry, Ems-Eftec offers systems and materials in the areas of bonding (body parts), sealing (welding seams), damping (vibrations of the sheet metal) and protection ( plastisols for the body). Ems-Grivory produces high-performance polymers that are delivered to customers as granulates. From these high-performance polymers, the customers produce plastic parts z. B. in the automotive industry, in mobile phone covers, as display windows, LEDs, packaging, baby bottles, glasses, etc. are used. Ems-Griltech manufactures hot melt adhesives (e.g. for clothing, automotive electronics, packaging, composite materials) as well as separating and adhesive yarns for the textile industry, fibers for press felts (e.g. paper machine felts), powder coatings (e.g. glass, aluminum facades , Machines, devices, radiators) that are heat, UV and cold resistant. Ems-Patvag develops and produces igniters (e.g. airbags, seat belt tensioners) for safety systems in the automotive sector.

history

Factories
Emser level around 1920. Today the Ems-Chemie works are on the left

The founding of Hovag

In 1936 Werner Oswald founded the «Holzverzuckerungs AG» («Hovag») based in Zurich in order to use the Scholler process in Domat to convert wood into ethyl alcohol and the like. a. as a fuel additive for motor vehicles. On August 23, 1940, the Swiss Federal Council initially approved the production of 20,000 hl of fuel and assured that it would be taken over at the prime cost. This was added to the gasoline and the higher costs were offset by the federal treasury. Due to the shortage of raw materials during the Second World War , a contract was signed on March 24, 1941 with delivery and purchase obligations for 98,200 tons of fuel with payment of the prime costs (including provisions and repayment of state employment contributions ) until March 31, 1955 At the end of the Second World War, 30% of Switzerland's fuel requirements were met. In addition, on June 25, 1942, another contract was signed for the delivery of 2000 tons of fodder yeast per year, of which only 2639 tons were delivered due to delivery bottlenecks. From 1944 to 1947, the Society for Patents and Administrations AG ("Patvag AG"), a sister company of "Hovag", invested in hydropower plants in order to secure their energy needs at low cost. In 1948 "Hovag" began with the ammonia synthesis, in 1949 with the urea synthesis, in the early 1950s with the production of opalm, a war fire agent more effective than napalm , and also in the 1950s with that of caprolactam from which polyamide plastics and, by the subsidiary «Fibron SA», polyamide fibers (brand name Grilon) were produced. The first foreign sales company was then founded, GRILON & Plastics Machinery Ltd. based in Dover (UK). In 1954 "Hovag" was one of the largest employers with 1015 employees and consumed around half of the electrical energy in the canton of Graubünden. When on May 13, 1956, a referendum was held against the further subsidization of "Hovag" for the years 1956 to 1960 in the amount of 28.3 million Swiss francs , the latter stopped producing ethyl alcohol.

In 1947 "Inventa AG" was founded for research and patent exploitation (later process engineering and plant engineering were combined in it). In the mid-1950s, "Inventa" built over 300 plants (117 in China) for caprolactam, plastics and synthetic fibers worldwide.

The years from 1960

In 1960 "Hovag" was renamed "Emser Werke AG". In 1962, Chemie Holding Ems AG was founded, which was first listed on December 17, 1962 on the Zurich stock exchange. In the 1960s, "Emser Werke AG" continually expanded its product range and founded independent subsidiaries. This is how EMS Patvag for ignition systems was founded in 1963. In 1972 Christoph Blocher , who joined the legal department as a student trainee in 1969, was elected chairman and delegate of the board of directors. In 1978 the various Emser companies were united under the umbrella of the Chemie Holding Ems AG. On February 23, 1979, the founder Werner Oswald died in the middle of a meeting. Christoph Blocher continued to manage the company, began to focus on engineering plastics and in 1981 changed the names to "Ems Chemie Holding AG" and "Ems Chemie AG".

In 1983 he received the order from the founding family Oswald to immediately find a buyer for the shares in "Ems Chemie Holding AG". Blocher decided to take over the Oswald family's block of shares himself and thus had the majority of the votes in the company. In the following years the "Ems" expanded further and took over several other companies. In 1988, "Ems" focused on the three business areas of polymer materials, fine chemicals (EMS Dottikon) and engineering.

Among the new products that were continuously developed in 1991 was a high-rigidity polyamide . A year later, the "Ems" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the start of production. In 1997 the "Ems Togo" division entered into a joint venture with HB Fuller Automotive USA. These now appeared under the name “Eftec”. Three years later there was a joint venture between "Eftec" and the Czech company D-Plast to open up the Central and Eastern European market.

In 2000, the four independent divisions “Ems Grivory” (technical thermoplastics), “Ems Griltec” (technical fibers and adhesives), “Ems Primid” (thermosets), “Ems Services” (central services at the Domat / Ems plant) were organized. The following year, Blocher's eldest daughter Magdalena Martullo joined the company. At the beginning of 2003 the Blocher family decided that the "Ems" should continue to be a public company listed on the stock exchange and introduced the uniform registered shares.

On December 10, 2003, Christoph Blocher was elected to the Federal Council. Since a Federal Council is not allowed to have any economic connections, it gave up all functions in the "Ems" group and sold its majority stake in "Ems Chemie-Holding AG" on December 30, 2003 to his four children. His daughter Magdalena took over the group management on January 1, 2004 as Vice President and Delegate of the Board of Directors. In the same year, "Ems Grivory" was subdivided into the independent divisions "Ems Grivory Europe", "Ems Grivory America", "Ems Grivory Asia".

In 2005, Blocher's son Markus “Ems Dottikon” was spun off and floated on the stock exchange as an independent company. The three sisters left their shares to their brother and received his shares in "Emesta Holding AG" in return. The three sisters thus held the majority of shares in "Ems-Chemie Holding". In the following year, the “Tegra” biomass power plant (wood chip power plant) went into operation, which reduced CO 2 emissions at the Domat / Ems plant by 80% by 2009.

In 2007 Miriam Blocher reduced her stake in "Ems-Chemie Holding"; the majority was now owned by Magdalena Martullo-Blocher and Rahel Blocher. "Ems Togo" took over all of HB Fuller's joint venture shares and changed the name to "Ems Eftec". In the same year, the special polymers from "Ems Grivory" received drinking water approval, which enabled new applications in the sanitary area to be implemented. In the following years, "Ems" brought a number of new products onto the market and opened new locations and production facilities around the world.

In 2010, "Ems Eftec" sold the aftermarket division and henceforth concentrated on direct delivery. In 2011 EMS celebrated its 75th company anniversary, on this occasion Karl Lüönd's company biography “Success as a mission. "Ems-Chemie" .: The story of an impossible company ". The highest fully automated high-bay warehouse in Switzerland is put into operation at the Domat / EMS workstation and EMS is voted Supplier of the Year by General Motors and Bosch. Foxconn names EMS Strategic Supplier of the Year. In 2012 and 2013 EMS again received the Supplier of the Year award from General Motors.

Traffic development

Rhaetian Railway : a Ge 4/4 III locomotive advertises Ems-Chemie.

The narrow-gauge railway line Chur – Domat / Ems of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) runs between Chur and Domat / Ems and has had a three- rail track since December 1959 . Standard -gauge freight trains can thus reach the Ems-Chemie area directly. The RhB Ems Werk stop serves the factory premises directly. There are ideas to introduce standard-gauge passenger transport services to the Ems factory in the future. To do this, however, the entire track system up to the Ems factory would have to be expanded to three rails. There is no funding for this project.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. Cs2 Ag - Switzerland - http://www.cs2.ch/ : EMS Group - Board of Directors. In: ems-group.com. April 10, 1950. Retrieved June 21, 2015 .
  3. a b Key financial figures 2019. Ems-Chemie, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  4. a b c 51st Annual Report EMS-Chemie 2013/2014 (PDF; 793 kB).
  5. EMS: locations worldwide .
  6. EMS: Business Units ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 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.ems-group.com
  7. G: Römpp Lexikon Chemie, 10th edition, 1996-1999 Volume 2: Cm - G . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3-13-199971-3 , p. 1148 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Karl Lüönd: Success as a mission: Ems-Chemie: the story of an impossible company . Stämpfli, 2011, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-1311-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  9. a b c d e f Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on the granting of aid to the Holzverzuckerungs-AG. (PDF; 2.4 MB) In: Bundesblatt, Volume 107, Volume II, No. 30. Swiss Federal Council, July 28, 1955, accessed on May 17, 2015 .
  10. Axpo Hydro Surselva AG for 50 years in the canton of Graubünden (PDF).
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  13. Federal decree on measures to strengthen the economy of the canton of Graubünden by granting aid to the Holzverzuckerungs-AG. Chronology. In: admin.ch. Swiss Federal Chancellery, accessed on December 21, 2011 .
  14. Referendum of May 13, 1956. In: admin.ch. Swiss Federal Chancellery, accessed on December 21, 2011 .
  15. Pötel: Menghin - Pötel . Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , p. 622 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  16. emsgriltech.com: EMS-GRILTECH - detailed view of the EMS group archive news , accessed on February 27, 2017.
  17. Hans G. Wägli: Rail network Switzerland / Réseau ferré suisse - rail profile Switzerland CH + / Le rail suisse en profile CH +. AS Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9 , p. 101.
  18. MACU - Model project for the agglomeration of Chur and the surrounding area ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 2.7 MB), August 2006. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gr.ch

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