Erbslöh Geisenheim
| Erbslöh Geisenheim | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1892 (kaolin plant) 1964 (beverage technology) |
| Seat | Geisenheim in the Rheingau |
| management | Jörg Möller |
| Number of employees | 130 (2019) |
| Branch | Beverage technology |
| Website | https://www.erbsloeh.com/ |
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Erbslöh Geisenheim GmbH is an international beverage technology company based in Geisenheim in the Rheingau . The Erbslöh Group is active in the areas of research, development and production of beverage treatment agents and the like. a. for wine, sparkling wine, juice, brandy and beer and exports its goods to over 70 countries.
history
Carl Hugo Erbslöh, who came from the Bergisch entrepreneurial family Erbslöh and was a son of the Barmer factory owner and company founder Julius Erbslöh I , founded a wholesale company for chemicals and minerals in Düsseldorf in 1876. He was interested in kaolin , a rock that is used, among other things, to manufacture paper and porcelain as well as in the food industry . Looking for new reserves to extend from the import of English kaolin, the so-called China clay to make independent, he acquired in 1892 in Geisenheim of Eduard von charge after mining law on clay and kaolin conferred fields Rothenberg and Becht. The Geisenheim deposits were characterized by strongly kaolinized quartz keratophyres, from which, under hydrothermal conditions, almost pure, white kaolin was produced, which became known as "Geisenheim porcelain clay".
As early as September 1, 1892, the company was entered as a limited partnership in the commercial register of the city of Rüdesheim am Rhein . Fields were both open pit open-minded , as well as in civil engineering oriented . For this purpose, a 500 m long tunnel was driven from the Pflänzer settlement to Rothenberg. At the same time, the construction of a slurry works started directly on the railway line . The first customers included the paper manufacturer E. Holtzmann & Cie. , the Thonwerk Biebrich (today Didier-Werke ) and the ceramic manufacturer Deutsche Steinzeug Cremer & Breuer .
In 1896 it was converted into a general partnership . In Lohrheim in the former Nassau 1911 another mining area was purchased in 1920 was there, a kaolin plant, which went into operation from the 1921st Other pits and works followed.
After Carl Hugo retired from management in both Düsseldorf and Geisenheim in 1921, son Siegfried Erbslöh took over management. In 1934 it was converted back into a limited partnership, Siegfried became a personally liable partner until 1962, from 1954 together with his son Gerd.
In the 1940s, bentonite was introduced in the beverage sector for so-called protein fining and for stabilizing beverages, which became known as "Geisenheimer Earth for wine fining". In 1964, the beverage technology department was founded.
One of the most important milestones in the company's history was the invention of betonite activation in 1966 , a chemical refinement process: calcium bentonite, which was only slightly swellable, was converted into sodium bentonite through ion exchange , which significantly increased the swelling capacity of the clay mineral, which for numerous new applications and the development of new markets. The patented process created the prerequisites for synthetic molding sand in the foundry industry, for example, and the material was used for drilling fluids in deep boreholes or as a seal in buildings, but also in the beverage sector.
Because the deposit was exhausted, kaolin mining in Geisenheim was stopped in 1975, but the steadily growing area of beverage technology was able to make up for this loss in the years to come.
More recently, standards have been set with the production of organic certified dry yeasts (2008), which can be used by organic farms according to EU guidelines, an anti- gushing product for beers (2013), products for vegan beverage treatment (2014), and “ Halal - "or" kosher-certified "products that are not allowed to contain gelatine or animal proteins.
On October 1, 2017, the fourth generation of the family business was taken over by the French Laffort group from Bordeaux .
Gerd Erbslöh, who was a partner and chairman of the advisory board for many years after leaving the company, died in September 2019 at the age of 92. A foundation he set up in 2008 supports bachelor, master and doctoral theses by students at the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences , which support the development of the university or represent special achievements in the areas of beverage technology or oenology .
Geisenheim kaolin pit
The area at Rothenberg, created by the former kaolin opencast mine, was declared a nature reserve Kaolinggrube von Geisenheim with the number 1439030 by the Darmstadt regional council in 1993 and was intended to serve as a habitat and retreat for rare and endangered animal and plant species, and natural vegetation should develop. However, constant sliding down the steep embankments creates major problems. The site, which was still under mining law at the time, was therefore filled with excavated earth by the mining authorities. The protection status was then revoked in 2015. Plans by the city of Geisenheim to allow residential development on the former mine site may conflict with concerns of the district's water authority that the backfilled excavated earth is not unpolluted.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About Erbslöh on the Erbslöh website, accessed on October 15, 2019
- ↑ Kaolin - Rock of the Year 2013 ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology
- ↑ Extraction of kaolin ( Memento from April 18, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Homepage Faber Lohrheim
- ↑ a b 50 years of progress in beverage technology ( Memento from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Homepage Erbslöh Geisenheim
- ↑ Natascha Gross: The Geisenheim company Erbslöh is celebrating its 125th anniversary ( Memento from May 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt from July 15, 2017
- ↑ a b Laura Jung: We want to remain a full- service provider ( Memento from May 18, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiesbadener Kurier from January 23, 2018
- ↑ Geisenheim entrepreneur Gerd Erbslöh passed away ( memento from October 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary from the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences from September 30, 2019
- ↑ Gerd Erbslöh Foundation ( memento from October 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Gerd Erbslöh Foundation on the Geisenheim University homepage
- ↑ Bernd Minges: The area of the Erbslöhgrube in Geisenheim is no longer under nature protection ( Memento from May 18, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiesbaden Courier
- ↑ Oliver Koch: Geisenheim makes a new attempt for the “Tonberg” residential area ( memento from March 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiesbadener Kurier of March 20, 2019
swell
- Rudolf Krämer-Badoni, Gerd Erbslöh, Hermann Neumeyer: miner among winemakers . Publisher: Erbslöh & Co., Geisenheimer Kaolinwerk. Erasmus print Mainz 1967
- Gerd Erbslöh: Erbslöh Geisenheim AG beverage technology. A little company history . In: Rheingau Forum 2/2010. ISSN 0942-4474
- 125 years of Erbslöh - In the beginning was ... ( Memento from August 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Erbslöh Geisenheim press release from May 29, 2017
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 18.2 " N , 7 ° 58 ′ 25.7" E