Gontermann-Peipers

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Gontermann-Peipers

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legal form Holding or GmbH
founding 1927
Seat Siegen , North Rhine-Westphalia
Number of employees 580 (2011)
sales 98 million euros (2010);
137 million euros (2008)
Branch Manufacture of rolling mill rolls, cast products
Website www.gontermann-peipers.de

Gontermann-Peipers (GP) is a German company in the metalworking industry that has its origins in 1825 and is based in Siegen , North Rhine-Westphalia . The company manufactures rolling mill rolls and cast products. The production program includes work, back-up and profile rolls for steel and aluminum rolling mills, which are manufactured in the Marienborn plant in the Kaan-Marienborn district of Siegen . In Hain Works in Siegen district Hain , the nine induction has a total of 150 tons of smelting capacity, is in continuous casting , spin casting , gravity die casting and hand casting produced.

Company history

Breidenbach / Gontermann

In 1825, the Siegen clay shaper Johann Heinrich Breidenbach founded a domestic business at his residence in the Siegen district of Sieghütte for the manufacture of furnaces and pots for annealing wire. In 1847 his son-in-law Gustav Gontermann joined the company and became its first namesake. The company Gustav Gontermann manufactured cast parts and rollers from 1855, most recently in the legal form of a limited liability company .

Peipers

Shell of the new Peipers factory in Marienborn , 1898

The entrepreneur Emil Peipers (1851–1930) took over a foundry in the Siegen district of Hain in 1880 . In 1883 he converted his company into the legal form of a limited partnership under the company Emil Peipers & Cie. KG , the focus of production was roll casting. In 1894 Peipers received a patent for the chilled cast iron from the Imperial Patent Office . The company expanded and in 1898 had an additional factory built for the manufacture of rollers in what was then the Siegen suburb of Marienborn. In 1903 the company was renamed Peipers & Cie. AG für Walzenguss converted into a stock corporation. Over the years, other companies were incorporated, such as the Lothringer Walzengießerei AG in Busendorf in 1911/1912 (sold to a French company in 1919/1920) and Hainer Hütte AG in Siegen in 1916 .

Gontermann-Peipers

As early as 1926, both companies were negotiating a merger to rationalize production. In the newly founded company Gontermann-Peipers AG for roll casting and ironworks , which at times also became known under the acronym GOPAG , Peipers & Cie. AG and Gustav Gontermann GmbH incorporated their production facilities and remained as holding companies. While the values ​​brought in in 1927 were given a nominal GOPAG share capital of 1.797 million RM (Gontermann) and 1.198 million RM (Peipers), the shares were equal to a ratio of 52% to 48% at 3.2 million until 1943. RM share capital. After the re-armament of Germany under National Socialism , GOPAG acquired the disused Eiserfelder Hütte in 1935 and put it back into operation in 1937.

While Emil Peipers' male descendants did not appear in GOPAG or in the holding company, the GOPAG Supervisory Board included Rudolf Gontermann (* 1900) and Walter Gontermann (* 1884), two descendants of Gustav Gontermann, until at least 1943 .

During the Second World War , the roller foundry in Busendorf was bought back in 1942 and was lost again after the end of the war. In the air war the company was bombed because of its importance for arms production; the Marienborn and Hain plants were damaged in bombing raids and rebuilt after the war.

Gontermann-Peipers, Hain plant on Marienborner Strasse in Siegen

In 1950 Gontermann-Peipers developed a new type of steel composite casting process that improved the quality of the rolls produced. In 1958 the company put the first electric arc furnace into operation. In the decades that followed, production techniques were further improved; from 1985 onwards, large cast blocks with a volume of one cubic meter could be cast.

Milling rollers have been manufactured in the newly built melting and casting plant at the Hain plant since 1993, and several additional expansions were made between 2000 and 2007. Since the 1990s, Gontermann-Peipers has been producing rollers weighing up to 100 t and supplying around 100 companies in 27 countries. At the Marienborn plant, among other things, the Castor containers for the storage and transport of radioactive materials are manufactured.

literature

  • Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Volume 1,
    • P. 459 (Gontermann-Peipers AG for roll casting and metallurgical plant),
    • P. 1528 (Peipers & Cie. AG).
  • Handbook of German Stock Companies , 48th edition 1943,
    • Volume 1, p. 394 (Gontermann-Peipers AG),
    • Volume 2, p. 1461 (Peipers & Cie. AG).

Web links

Commons : Gontermann-Peipers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hoppenstedt-hochschuldatenbank.de/ No. 315815894
  2. ↑ http://www.hoppenstedt-hochschuldatenbank.de/ No. 315815894
  3. ↑ History of the company at gontermann-peipers.de (accessed on November 6, 2011)
  4. ↑ [1]

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 55.6 ″  E