Sulo
| SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat |
Herford , Germany
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| management | Michel Kempinski |
| Number of employees | 400 |
| sales | 75 million euros (2016) |
| Branch | Plastics processing |
| Website | www.sulo.de |
| As of January 31, 2019 | |
The SULO Group is an environmental technology company based in Herford . It is best known in Germany for the rubbish bins he made in Herford . The company name (company) consists of the name S Treuber u nd Lo together hmann. Since January 2019, the SULO Group has been owned by a consortium made up of “Latour Capital” and “Bpi France (Banque Public d'Investissement)”.
history
Beginnings
In 1892, master locksmith Fritz Streuber founded the forerunner company "Westfälische Metallwarenfabrik und Verzinkerei Rehwoldt und Streuber" in Werther (Westphalia) . From 1899, products were made from galvanized steel . The company manufactured tubs , watering cans and stable equipment.
In 1928 the company moved to Herford and from 1929 onwards, steel packaging was added, which is still manufactured at the Herford location today. Together with his partner Walter Lohmann , the company was now called SULO Eisenwerke GmbH & Co. KG . In Herford, the company operating the two plants on the road and at the Bünder Waltgeristraße that until 1966 sidings of Herford little train could be had, so that the goods are also shipped by rail. From 1966 to 2002 the plant on Bünder Strasse had a Deutsche Bahn siding.
From 1960 the production of plastic containers for waste followed.
In 1972 SULO developed the first large waste container (MGB) and applied for a patent for it. At the time, it had a filling volume of 220 liters, but its shape was confusingly similar to today's MGB with 240 liters.
In 1986 the household goods division was spun off into OKT Kunststofftechnik GmbH (Stemwede-Oppenwehe), which was taken over by Wrede Industrieholding five years later and has been known as keeeper GmbH since 2016 .
Further development
In November 2010, Plastic Omnium Disposal Technology GmbH moved its headquarters from Munich to Herford. In April 2005 the company moved its headquarters from Karben near Frankfurt am Main to Munich.
In August 2012, the series production of the "green-made" recycling bin from the renewable raw material sugar cane began .
In July 2016, Plant 2 on Bünder Straße, built in 1900, was demolished due to the risk of collapse. In 1953, SULO took over the building complex in which furniture had been produced up until then. The production hall was built by the furniture entrepreneur Gustav Kopka , who erected the building of today's Herford City Library in 1885 after the premises there were no longer sufficient.
In January 2019, Plastic Omnium Entsorgungstechnik GmbH was renamed SULO Disposal Technology GmbH .
Acquisitions
In 1963 SULO took over the Jakob Altvater company and developed services in the field of disposal logistics in addition to its production business.
In 1994 SULO founded subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine, and in 1998 it started business in Singapore.
In 2004 the financial investors Blackstone Group and Apax Partners acquired all shares in the SULO group of companies.
On October 13, 2005, SULO took over Cleanaway Deutschland AG & Co. KG from the Australian service group Brambles .
On April 27, 2007 it was announced that the financial investors Blackstone and Apax are selling their stake in SULO to the French utility company Veolia Environnement .
In October 2007 the French group Plastic Omnium bought the SULO environmental technology group from Veolia.
In January 2019, Plastic Omnium sold the Sulo Group for 220 million euros to a consortium made up of “Latour Capital” and “Bpi France (Banque Public d'Investissement)”. Latour Capital is a fund company founded in 2011 and Bpi France is a public investment bank .
On January 22, 2020 it was announced that the Sulo Group had acquired the Swedish San Sac Group on December 19, 2019. San Sac is a leading provider of products and services for waste collection and separation in Scandinavia and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of waste compactors and balers. It is mainly active in the Scandinavian countries and France.
SULO group
At the beginning of 2019, around 400 people were employed at the headquarters of the SULO Group in Herford. Large parts of the central administration and a large part of the company management as well as the largest garbage can factory in the world (with 2 million garbage cans produced in 2009) are still located there.
The SULO Group includes the divisions SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH and SULO Disposal Technology GmbH , both of which manufacture plastic waste containers and are based in Herford. Westfalia intralog (forwarding and logistics services) based in Herford, Envicomp Systems (software and hardware solutions for waste disposal) based in Herford and RMS Mechanical Systems GmbH based in Stadtlohn also belong to the SULO Group in the Münsterland.
SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH
At SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH , waste bins such as garbage cans, rubbish bins and paper baskets are mainly made of plastic.
SULO Disposal Technology GmbH
When SULO disposal GmbH the manufacture, sale and rental of waste collection containers made of plastic, including order-related services takes place. The business area is therefore similar to that of SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH .
SULO Metallsysteme GmbH
Since 2011, Plastic Omnium Systems GmbH (POS, formerly RMS Mechanical Systems GmbH or RMS Rotherm Maschinenbau GmbH ) has belonged to the SULO group and thus to Plastic Omnium . In Stadtlohn in Münsterland, POS develops and produces underground and semi-underground container solutions for collecting recyclable materials as well as street waste bins and depot containers for equipping recyclable waste collection points. POS also manufactures attachments for forklifts , lifting platforms and storage technology equipment.
After the sale of the SULO Group in January 2019, Plastic Omnium Systems GmbH was renamed SULO Metallsysteme GmbH .
SULO Digital GmbH
In January 2019, Envicomp Systemlogistik GmbH was renamed SULO Digital GmbH . Hardware identification and weighing systems for municipal vehicles and RFID transponders for identifying bins and controlling access to waste collection points are manufactured under this name . In addition, software applications are offered for managing the container inventory and assessing disposal fees, managing the vehicle fleet and tracking vehicles in real time, as well as planning and optimizing recycling tours.
At the end of the 1980s, SULO introduced the first system for identifying containers in Germany, which gave birth to the “intelligent garbage can”. At the beginning of the 1990s, Envicomp was founded from the specialist departments of the companies SULO (PONTECH system) and DASA (IMES system). The headquarters of Envicomp and SULO Digital have been in Herford since July 1, 2010.
The SULO Digital GmbH with locations in Germany (development in Herford and Senden (Bavaria) ) and in France ( Nanterre and Lyon represented). The company's sales activities are carried out by the SULO sales offices.
WESTFALIA intralog GmbH
Companies
WESTFALIA intralog is both an internal logistics service provider for SULO Umwelttechnik and the environmental division of Plastic Omnium as well as a logistics partner for external companies. The company is one of the largest providers in Germany in the field of swap body logistics . In addition to classic transport logistics, WESTFALIA intralog manages its customers' finished goods stores . The range of services includes the entire goods management, starting with the acceptance of goods after the product has been completed, the assembly , order picking and packaging of the goods, through storage and retrieval, including inventory management , to just-in-time delivery.
Locations
In addition to the main location in Herford, WESTFALIA intralog has branches in Essen , Lohr am Main , and Tettau (Upper Franconia) .
history
On May 2, 1983, WESTFALIA Speditionsgesellschaft mbh was founded from the internal shipping department of what was then SULO Eisenwerke GmbH & Co. KG . In 1984 the acquisition of external customers began and a jumbo swap body fleet was built up. The acquisition of the first major customer in the automotive supplier industry was successful in 1995, and jumbo double deck swap bodies were then developed for customers in the automotive industry. In 1997, an own workshop for repairs and maintenance was created in Herford.
In 2002 there was the first major order from the field of contract logistics in the glass industry . In the same year the branches in Tettau, Lohr and Essen were founded. Two years later, the swap body fleet was equipped with telematics solutions . In 2005, a major customer from the chemical industry was won and the swap body fleet was expanded to 600 units. Like the parent company, WESTFALIA was sold to Veolia in 2007 and then to Plastic Omnium .
In 2010 the company was renamed WESTFALIA intralog . The swap body inventory was increased to around 1000 units. In 2013, the sea freight activities were expanded.
Former SULO company
SL Packaging GmbH
SULO had been producing barrels since 1927 and in 1997 this branch of business was spun off into SULO Emballagen Deutschland GmbH . Since 2014 the company has been called SULO Emballagen GmbH . This belonged to the SULO Group until September 2016, when it was sold to the Dutch investor Fields Group and was named SL Packaging GmbH on October 1, 2016 . Here, the rarely used term was Emballagen by the internationally more common word Packaging replaced. The letters S and L are intended to remind of the two SULO founders Streuber and Lohmann.
The SL Packaging administration is located next to the Sulo site on Bünder Strasse in the former Poggenpohl building. Production continues in the buildings that previously belonged to SULO Emballagen GmbH .
At SL Packaging GmbH , as before at SULO Emballagen GmbH , steel drums and special packaging for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as for food, mineral oils and dangerous goods are manufactured. After the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse location, taken over by SULO in 1995, was closed at the end of August 2014 , two million steel drums were then produced annually by around 130 employees in Herford. In April 2016, the Sulo site in Neustadt was sold to a real estate company that wants to build apartments there.
From 1967 to 2004 blown plastic packaging was produced in a plant in Welkers , a district of the East Hessian municipality of Eichenzell .
SULO seating furniture
During the 33rd Hanseatic Day, which took place in Herford in June 2013, Sulo seating was set up in the city, which the Herford designer Oliver Schübbe made from parts of the original 1100 liter garbage containers. The barrel parts used are incurred when the colors are changed on the injection molding machines at Sulo. They have slight color defects due to production. The upholstery consists of recycled advertising banners, truck tarpaulins and used mattresses. After the seating was very popular with the population, it has since been set up on special occasions, such as city festivals, in the city center. Since then ten seat bins have been produced annually. In individual cases they are also given to celebrities.
More about the SULO company environment
3D | CORE GmbH & Co KG
Under the leadership of Fritz M. Streuber, a descendant of the SULO company founder, the ESC company was founded in 1999 , which was renamed 3D | CORE GmbH & Co KG in 2013 . The company produces foams for shipbuilding and other areas of application.
Half-timbered house of the Streuber family
In 1897 Fritz Streuber bought the half-timbered house at Elisabethstrasse 11. It was built in the second half of the 18th century on the site of the prince abbey in place of an older house. The house is still owned by the family (as of 2018) and is inhabited by the Streuber family. It has been on the list of architectural monuments in Herford since 1982 .
Grace and Fritz Streuber Foundation
In 2008, the Streuber couple founded the Grace and Fritz Streuber Foundation, which is committed to the restoration, maintenance and care of the Villa Schönfeld in Herford. The building houses the municipal museum, which was named Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus in 1975 .
See also
Web links
- Company website
- SULO article at Ladenzeile.de , accessed on April 18, 2019
- SULO waste container at Idealo.de, accessed on April 18, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint
- ↑ a b c d e Peter Steinert: French consortium takes over traditional company Sulo In: Neue Westfälische, January 3, 2019
- ↑ a b narrow gauge East Westphalia: SULO
- ↑ Narrow gauge East Westphalia: sidings
- ↑ SULO: Large garbage container
- ↑ Patent application for large-capacity mobile garbage container
- ↑ Patent application Mobile large-capacity plastic waste bin
- ^ Internet site of keeper GmbH
- ↑ North Data: Relocation to Herford
- ↑ North Data: Relocation to Munich
- ↑ SULO: Start of series production of the “green-made” recycling bin
- ↑ Plastic Omnium: The vegetable container on wheels
- ↑ Peter Steinert: Sulo: Production hall will be demolished In: Neue Westfälische, July 10, 2016
- ↑ Northdata: Renaming of Plastic Omnium Disposal Technology to SULO Disposal Technology GmbH
- ↑ Sulo wants to buy and is postponing its own sale . In: Finance-Magazin, December 5, 2006
- ↑ environment group Veolia broken German waste company Sulo . In: Welt Print, July 30, 2007
- ^ Peter Schelberg: Sulo environmental division has new owners . In: Westfalen-Blatt, January 3, 2019
- ↑ Plastic Omnium: Environmental division with Sulo goes to consortium . In: Kunststoffweb, July 26, 2019
- ↑ Environmental division of Plastic Omnium goes to investor consortium . In: Euwid, July 20, 2018
- ^ San Sac Group
- ↑ Sulo expands in Scandinavia , in Westfalen-Blatt, January 22, 2020
- ↑ Business areas of the SULO Group
- ↑ Northdata: SULO Disposal Technology GmbH
- ↑ Northdata: SULO Metallsysteme GmbH
- ↑ North Data: SULO Digital GmbH
- ↑ SULO system house Envicomp relocates headquarters to Herford . In: Recycling-Magazin, April 29, 2010
- ↑ Internet site of WESTFALIA-Intralog GmbH
- ↑ Spedition WESTFALIA intralog celebrates its 30th company anniversary . In: OWL-Journal, May 11, 2013
- ↑ WESTFALIA Spedition becomes WESTFALIA intralog . In: Pressebox, October 10, 2010
- ↑ SULO logistics division changes its name . In: Verkehrsrundschau, October 19, 2010
- ↑ Hartmut Braun: Empire of 1,000 swap bodies . In: Neue Westfälische, May 11, 2013
- ↑ Internet site of SL Packaging GmbH
- ↑ North Data: SL Packaging GmbH
- ↑ Miriam Scharlibbe: New owner and new name for Sulo Emballagen . In: Neue Westfälische, August 9, 2016
- ↑ Miriam Scharlibbe: Sulo Emballagen is now called SL Packaging . In: Neue Westfälische, October 11, 2016
- ↑ Karin Koteras-Pietsch: Factory in Neustadt is closed, Sulo invests millions . In: Westfalen-Blatt, July 30, 2014
- ↑ Sulo site has new owner In: Die Rheinpfalz, May 2, 2016
- ↑ History of SL Packaging GmbH
- ↑ The great bin becomes cult furniture . In: Neue Westfälische, June 18, 2013
- ↑ Sulo seat bins back soon . In: Hallo Herford, March 27, 2015
- ↑ Seats for spring in Herford . In: Neue Westfälische, April 1, 2015
- ↑ Seat barrel refines Dietz 'gold medal . In: Westfalen-Blatt, February 17, 2017
- ↑ Internet site of the company 3D | CORE GmbH & Co KG
- ^ Frank-Michael Kiel-Steinkamp: public buses shake half-timbered houses . In: Neue Westfälische, September 21, 2012
- ^ Grace and Fritz Steuber Foundation
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E