Friedrich Boysen
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1945 |
| Seat | Altensteig , Germany |
| management | Rolf Geisel |
| Number of employees | 4,600 |
| sales | EUR 2.15 billion |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.boysen-online.de |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Friedrich Boysen GmbH and Co. KG , headquartered in Baden-Württemberg Altensteig is a company for exhaust technology. The group of companies develops and manufactures complete exhaust systems and the associated individual components for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and off-highway applications at 23 locations worldwide. The main tasks of the products are exhaust gas purification, noise reduction and the conversion of exhaust gas heat into usable energy.
The customer base includes German and international automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturers. A key performance feature of Boysen is the production and delivery of Just-in-Sequence (JIS) exhaust systems .
In addition to the core business area of exhaust technology, the medium-sized foundation company is also increasingly concerned with developments in the field of environmental and energy technology.
Since November 2010, Boysen has also held a stake in the engineering service provider Bertrandt AG and has thus taken another step towards diversifying its business activities.
history
In 1921 Friedrich A. Boysen founded Steigboy Apparatebau GmbH in Leipzig. The company developed and produced exhaust silencers for cars, motorcycles and airplanes as well as intake silencers and fresh air heaters for cars and their own three-wheeled delivery vehicles. After the company's bankruptcy in 1930 in the course of the global economic crisis and the establishment of exhaust system production at Eberspächer u. a. After the end of the Second World War, the Leipzig plant was followed by a new entrepreneurial start: On October 9, 1945, Boysen received approval to found an industrial company for exhaust systems of all kinds. In 1949, he relocated the company's headquarters from Stuttgart to Altensteig.
In the 1970s, the company developed thermal reactors for exhaust gas detoxification and a Helmholtz resonator as a silencer that could be tuned to two different frequency ranges. At the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s, Boysen made the step from a supplier to a system partner for exhaust technology. The product range was expanded to include sheet metal elbows, three-way catalytic converters and later diesel particulate filters , SCR technology and low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation.
In 1993 Boysen set up the world's first on-site assembly plant in Salching for the manufacture and delivery of complete exhaust systems just-in-sequence (JIS). Thus, for the first time, exhaust systems were produced and delivered in exactly the order in which they were installed at the automobile manufacturer in the final assembly.
The new role of system partner for development, production and logistics was associated with strong growth and with it the increasing internationalization of the group of companies. The establishment of new locations in France (1998), India (1999 and 2019), the USA (2004 and 2013), China (2007 and 2014), Egypt (2011), South Africa (2014), Mexico (2017), Serbia (2019 ) as well as in Simmersfeld (2001 and 2017), Plauen (2008 and 2017), Achim (2013), Nagold (2015) and Ingolstadt (2015) were accompanied by the constant expansion and new construction of the existing development and production facilities. One example of this is the "Turmfeld" production plant in Altensteig, which was partly new and partly rebuilt in 2011, which was implemented as a CO 2 -neutral factory for the energy- self-sufficient production of exhaust technology.
Products
- Exhaust components for automobiles and commercial vehicles: manifolds, catalytic converters, particle filters, systems for active sound design, silencers, exhaust gas recirculation systems, pneumatic and electric exhaust flaps, tailpipe trims.
- Complete exhaust systems that are manufactured just-in-sequence in on-site assembly plants and delivered to the automobile manufacturers.
- Acoustic design to create a positive sound for vehicle buyers.
Research and Development
In the core business area of exhaust technology, the Boysen Group pursues the goal of further reducing noise and pollutant emissions from internal combustion engines, while also improving the efficiency of diesel and gasoline engines. The company sees approaches for this in material and structural lightweight construction, dethrottling of the exhaust system and in energy recovery from exhaust gases, for example with the help of thermoelectric generators or heat engines .
Boysen also deals with block-type thermal power stations for single-family houses as well as projects in the areas of photovoltaics , wind, water and bio-power plants.
Through the Friedrich-und-Elisabeth-Boysen-Stiftung, the group of companies has been promoting science and research in the field of environmental protection since 1996, especially in the fields of exhaust gas cleaning and noise reduction. Funding is mainly given to engineering projects in which significant progress can be expected in terms of environmentally relevant sustainability achieved through innovative technologies and processes.
Funding is preferably awarded for doctoral projects with a duration of two to three years. Over 100 individual projects have been supported so far at the University of Stuttgart , the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Technical University (TU) Dresden.
At TU Dresden, funding has been focused on sustainable energy systems since July 2012 through the interdisciplinary "Boysen-TU Dresden-Graduiertenkolleg". The college forms the basis for joint work by doctoral students from various disciplines.
At the University of Stuttgart, KIT and TU Dresden, the foundation also annually honors an outstanding dissertation in the field of environmental technology with a sponsorship award.
Locations
The development and administration center in Altensteig has been the headquarters of the Boysen Group since 1949 . With the completion of the Boysen Innovation Center in Nagold , the group's second development site was opened in 2015.
In addition, Boysen has a global production network with production sites in Altensteig , Simmersfeld , Heubach , Salching , Ingolstadt , Plauen and Achim as well as in France ( Algolsheim ), Egypt ( 6th of October City ), South Africa ( East London ), India ( Pune and Surajpur ), China ( Langfang and Shenyang ), in the USA ( Gaffney and Tuscaloosa ), in Mexico ( San Luis Potosí ) and in Serbia ( Subotica ).
With a total of 60,000 square meters of production and storage space, the first production plant for truck exhaust technology was completed in Simmersfeld in 2018 . It is the largest construction project in the company's history to date.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Auto supplier Boysen joins Bertrandt , Handelsblatt , November 19, 2010
- ↑ Boysen sees itself well positioned for the next few years ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Info on Boysen Group website
- ↑ Boysen posted the second record year in a row in 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Info on Boysen Group website
- ^ Location magazine for the district of Calw, 2012/2013
- ^ Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation: Foundation purpose - boysen-stiftung.de. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Technische Universität Dresden: Boysen-TU Dresden-Graduiertenkolleg on sustainable energy systems. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
