Erbslöh (metal processing)

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Erbslöh Aktiengesellschaft

formerly: Julius & August Erbslöh

legal form Corporation
founding 1842
Seat Velbert , Germany
management
  • Guido Grandi
  • Carsten Ringelmann
Number of employees 3,150 (2015)
sales 532 million € (2015)
Branch Automotive supplier
Website Company of the Walter Klein GmbH & Co. KG group of companies

The Erbslöh AG is a metal-working operation, mainly in the processing of aluminum has focused.

history

Residential house and factory building of the Julius and August Erbslöh families in Barmen-Wupperfeld (today: Wuppertal), pastel, C. Vedder 1843
Commemorative sheet for the 50th anniversary of the metal rolling mills Julius and August Erbslöh from 1892. In addition to the factories above, the founding generation, Carl Emil Wolf, Julius I. and August Erbslöh, and below the 2nd generation shareholders, Alexander Erbslöh, Walter Erbslöh are shown and Julius Erbslöh II.
Main factory of Julius and August Erbslöh on Berliner Straße in Barmen-Wupperfeld, around 1900

Company history

The company was founded in 1842 by Carl Emil Wolff and Julius Erbslöh I in Barmen - Wupperfeld (today: Wuppertal ) as a plating factory. The manufacture consisted mainly in the manufacture of gold- and silver-plated metal sheets , such as those used for the manufacture of buttons , car lights and the like. Over the years a wide variety of articles from the relevant genres , such as passe-partouts , silver-plated plates for daguerreotypes , wallet plates, brass , copper and stencil sheets, real fine silver and "patterned sheets" have been added.

The company changed its name in 1872 under the name Julius & August Erbslöh and took 1889 as one of the first in Germany - if not the first ever - that processing of the then new material aluminum on an industrial scale and set in motion in 1911 with the introduction of a hydraulic press with With a pressing force of 1,000 tons, the company developed into one of the most important manufacturers of aluminum profiles. Already in the 1880s, the company introduced a corporate health insurance and a pension and provident fund one for their employees.

In the period that followed, the company continued to grow. Additional halls were built and new presses increased production output. In 1942 the company employed around 650 people on a 58,000 square meter site and produced 5,300 tons of semi-finished products from various alloys . After the Second World War , the occupying power imposed a complete production ban until 1947. In the years of reconstruction that followed, aluminum became a coveted material in many industries, especially in the emerging automotive industry .

The company has been operating as Erbslöh Aktiengesellschaft since 1996 . The majority owner has been the Walter Klein GmbH & Co. KG group of companies since 2000 . In 2015 the company had 3,150 employees and annual sales of € 532 million .

Production facilities

In 1842, the company's founders bought a house at Wupperfelder Schönenstrasse 2, where a tape factory had previously been operated. The purchase price was 20,000 thalers . The house had hydropower through the Mühlengraben flowing behind it and consisted of a large semi-detached house, one half of which was used for production, the other half served the Julius and August Erbslöh families as a shared apartment for a long time. As the business expanded more and more, in 1891 the half of the apartment was moved to the factory by demolishing it and building a new building in its place. In 1899 the remaining part of the old Bergisch house fell and a large, uniform factory was built on this site.

Over the years, the company acquired various neighboring houses and in 1893 the Pfennings and Greefs hammers on the Blombach, the former known today as the Kupferhammer . A branch was established there, which was significantly expanded in 1904. Other properties adjacent to the Wupperfeld plant were also purchased. During the Second World War , the production facilities were destroyed in the great bombing raid on Wuppertal in 1943 . After the production facilities in Wupperfeld and Kupferhammer were exhausted, the construction of a third plant in the Velbert district of Neviges began in 1957, to which Wuppertal production was also relocated in 1978.

literature

  • Gustav von Eynern: News about the Erbslöh family , Lintz, Düsseldorf 1905
  • Erbslöh, Ewald: Memories of the old house in Barmen-Wupperfeld . Feller & Steffen, Potsdam 1933. Reprint, Hanover 1982
  • Nordmann & Terstegge (editor), Julius & August Erbslöh GmbH & Co (publisher): 1842–1992: 150 years of Erbslöh Aluminum. Velbert 1992.
  • Manfred Knauer: Julius & August Erbslöh . In: Manfred Knauer: One Hundred Years of Aluminum Industry in Germany (1886–1986): The History of a Dynamic Industry . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035127-9 , p. 49 f.
  • Andreas Erbslöh: Family Association Julius Erbslöh. A journey through time. , Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-925658-22-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ = sample sheets
  2. ↑ von Eynern, p. 42
  3. ↑ Andreas Erbslöh, p. 19 ff.
  4. ↑ a b Knauer 2014, p. 50.
  5. ↑ Nordmann, p. 4
  6. ↑ Nordmann, p. 8
  7. ↑ Nordmann, p. 12
  8. ↑ von Eynern, p. 42
  9. ↑ Ewald Erbslöh
  10. ↑ von Eynern, p. 42
  11. ↑ Nordmann, p. 12

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 37.1 ″  E