FLSmidth MAAG Gear
| FLSmidth MAAG Gear AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1913 |
| Seat | Winterthur , Switzerland |
| management | Simon Jensen ( CEO ) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.flsmidthmaaggear.com |
The FLSmidth MAAG Gear AG is a company in the field of heavy-duty gearboxes for cement - and minerals industries . It belongs to the Danish listed group FLSmidth . At its headquarters in Winterthur , Switzerland , FLSmidth MAAG Gear employs around 100 people in the areas of development, construction, finance and marketing. The production is located in plants in Milan / Italy and Elbląg / Poland , where 200 employees manufacture the gearboxes .
history
On April 1, 1913, the pioneer Max Maag and his company moved into Hardstrasse 219 in Zurich. This means that 1913 is considered the year Maag-Zahnräder AG was founded. As early as 1910, he began his gear studies, from which his own tooth shape emerged - the Maag gear. This tooth shape grips more precisely, is more resistant because the teeth are exposed to less stress and less abrasion and is therefore more economical. It is still used today. The Maag toothing was the foundation of Maag's gear factory which manufactured hardened and ground gears according to their own drawings. The factory also developed gear planing and grinding machines. The customers came from a wide variety of industries such as - the aviation, automotive, metal, or ship industries, e.g. B. Escher Wyss (today Sulzer / MAN ), the Sulzer brothers , Schindler or Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (today ZF Friedrichshafen ).
Around 1930 Maag-Zahnräder founded the first foreign companies in Italy and France. During the next 50 years the company developed a range of gear measuring, planing and grinding machines. After the Second World War, Maag-Zahnräder expanded into the cement and marine industries with pump, heavy-duty and turbo transmissions.
In the 1980s, the management defined a new strategy. By taking over metal forming technology companies, she invested in a new market. The then loss-making machine tool business was shut down and the remaining areas of gearboxes and pumps were transferred to independent companies - MAAG Gear and Maag Pump Systems. This strategy did not work and MAAG Gear was sold to FLSmidth in 1997. In order to expand and strengthen production capacities, MAAG bought the gearbox production facility from ABB in Poland in 2000. And in 2011, MAAG took over the Italian company Darimec in order to enlarge the product range.
Since then, FLSmidth MAAG Gear has developed, produced and serviced gears, gears and drive systems for the cement and mineral industries.
In 1913 Max Maag moved his small workshop from Horgen to Hardstrasse 219 in Zurich. In 1916 the Sulzer brothers started manufacturing gear planing machines in Oberwinterthur. 90 years later, MAAG Gear for its part relocated the offices and production facilities from Hardstrasse 219 to the Sulzer site in Oberwinterthur. The move had become necessary because of the conversion of the Maag area.
Milestones and pioneering achievements
- 1910: The Maag toothing. This tooth shape is more precise, more resistant and therefore more economical. It is still used today.
- 1913: A gear grinding machine for the automotive industry regulated with tactile diamonds, thanks to which the gears of the car engines ran more regularly and faster. This gear grinding machine has proven itself over 70 years.
- 1939: The PH-60 was the most successful gear measuring machine ever built by Maag-Zahnräder. Until production was discontinued in 1981, the company had delivered 1,260 units to customers worldwide. Some are still in use today.
- 1949: The HSS-360 gear grinding machine could machine gears up to a diameter of 3600 mm and a weight of up to 25 tons. This made it the largest gear grinding machine in the world at the time.
- 1966: A pioneering achievement was the construction of the first two-stage high-performance planetary gear - called CPU - for driving horizontal mills in the cement industry. Planetary gears run more reliably than the alternative parallel shaft gears. The first two CPUs delivered are in use after 265,000 hours of operation in the factory in Ciments d'Obourg / France ( Holcim )
- 1983: Maag-Zahnräder delivered the first WPU - a two-stage planetary gear - for a vertical mill. The largest WPU weighs 190 tons and has an output of 5346 kW.
- 2007: MAAG Gear presented its three-stage WPV planetary gearbox with torque split. The torque split enables approx. 25% of the power to be fed directly into the output flange via the planetary axes of the second stage. The concept of the three-stage gearbox was the answer to the ever-growing mills. The largest MAAG WPV weighs 220 tons and is designed for an output of almost 8 megawatts.
- In 2011, FLSmidth MAAG Gear launched a new drive concept for vertical mills: The MAAG CEM Drive ( Central Electrical Motor ) combines the advantages of the proven MAAG gear technology with a newly developed motor in one housing.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New CEO ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 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. In: Handelszeitung from May 19, 2010
- ↑ 100 years of MAAG Gear - anniversary book
- ↑ Swiss industry magazine of May 8, 2013: Swiss industrial history: Maag Gear - a century for gears
- ↑ acquisition Darimec In: SMM Swiss machine market from September 23, 2011
- ↑ Relocation to : NZZ from July 19, 2003
