GUTEX
| GUTEX wood fiber board plant H. Henselmann GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1902, as an electricity company |
| Seat | Aichen (Waldshut-Tiengen) , Germany |
| Number of employees | 130 |
| Branch | Wood , insulation materials |
| Website | www.gutex.de |
GUTEX is a wood fiber board factory in Aichen, a district of Waldshut-Tiengen , in the Waldshut district , which produces wood fiber insulation boards and also offers wood fiber blow-in insulation .
history
Already around 1538 a Schloßmüli zu Guttenpurg belonging to Burg Gutenburg is mentioned. The St. Blasien Monastery built an iron smelter with hammer forge and wire drawing here in 1660 with the agreement of Count Johann Ludwig von Sulz , as there is a large quantity of tried floor ore in neighboring Klettgau , whereas the wood in the Jurisdiction Monastery is more sufficiently available and commode to be sub-administered. With the establishment of the Albbruck ironworks , the small Gutenburg plant ceased in 1698.
Around 1900 the water from the ravine began to be used to generate electricity. The entrepreneur from Atzenbach , Ernst Oskar Tröscher received the approval to build a hydropower plant . The conditions for this were particularly favorable due to the usable gradient of the ravine of approx. 17 m. For the time, the remarkable output of five million hp was achieved, which meant that the nearby villages and the city of Tiengen could be supplied with electricity. In 1903 a wood grinding shop was attached to the power station . In 1920 the Hugo Henselmann family bought the company and expanded it further, first cardboard and then from 1932 wood fiber board was produced. After the production of fibreboard that had begun in the USA a few years earlier , the Henselmann company was a pioneer in the recycling of wood residues in Germany; these were plentiful in the numerous sawmills in the Black Forest. From 2000 to 2006 extensive new production facilities were built.
literature
- From the history of the economy of the Waldshut district. In: Helmut Vocke: The Chronicle of the Waldshut District. Self-published, Waldshut 1956, p. 325
Web links
- GUTEX GmbH: company website. Retrieved December 1, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Metz, Geologische Landeskunde des Hotzenwalds, p. 889
- ↑ From the history of the economy of the Waldshut district. In: Helmut Vocke: The Chronicle of the Waldshut District. 1956, p. 325.
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '23.45 " N , 8 ° 14' 56.61" O