Greiner AG

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Greiner AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1868
Seat Kremsmünster , Austria
management
  • Axel Kühner, CEO
  • Hannes Moser, CFO
Number of employees 10,745 (2019)
sales 1,675 million euros (2019)
Branch Conglomerate
Website https://www.greiner.com

The Greiner AG is a German - Austrian family company based in Kremsmünster (Austria), which is world's one of the largest manufacturers and processors of plastic and foam and the fifth generation of family ownership. With its four divisional companies, Greiner generated sales of around 1.675 billion euros in the 2019 financial year. In 2019, the company employed 10,745 people at 140 locations in 34 countries. In 2018, Greiner celebrated its 150th anniversary.

history

The original formation of the company was made by Carl Albert Greiner on September 7, 1868 as colonial goods and hardware store in Nürtingen ( Baden-Württemberg ). Among other things, a self-made soda was marketed, which was closed with a cork . After a short time, the company founder was only concerned with the manufacture and marketing of cork stoppers, which were cut with a cork cutting machine that was completely new at the time and which were also sold to third parties. The success was overwhelming, so that one concentrated only on the cork production, including the marketing of the waste incurred (including firelighters). The four sons of the company founder also gradually joined the company, which initially led to the establishment of the Austrian branch in Kremsmünster ( Upper Austria ) in 1899 . Another branch was founded in 1903 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols ( Spain ) to secure the import of cork. Both companies, in Austria as in Germany, developed well despite the World War, also thanks to their own import base in San Feliu near Barcelona. All locations operated under the name CA Greiner und Söhne GmbH and Co KG.

Technologically significant after the Second World War was the turn to a completely new material. In 1952, the company received a license to manufacture foam , which led to the next major growth phase , initially in Nürtingen and later in Kremsmünster. The foam products ( Moltopren ) were mainly sold in the furniture and clothing industry. Greiner already employed around 500 people at that time.

In 1960, Greiner Packaging was founded in Kremsmünster as a further branch of the company for injection molding and deep-drawing with a printing and mold making facility. Greiner Packaging initially produced plastic packaging such as cans for the pharmaceutical industry, yoghurt pots and disposable dishes.

Shortly after the start of injection molding, the first Petri dishes made of polystyrene began in Nürtingen in 1963 . That was the hour of birth of the Greiner Bio-One division. Before that, petri dishes made of glass were still used in pharmacy and medicine.

In 1977, another corporate division was established, which today operates under the name Greiner Extrusion , which is the world market leader in the manufacture of the corresponding machine tools in the area of ​​plastic profile production.

In 1983 the Greiner Perfoam division developed from a foam company in Linz, Upper Austria, which was taken over by the Semperit company. The company produces visible parts and acoustic components for the automotive industry. Greiner Perfoam is now part of the Greiner Foam International division.

Starting in the foam division, the production of passenger seat cushions began in 1986. This division now operates under the name Greiner aerospace and, like Greiner PURTEC , which produces thermal insulation for boilers, belongs to the Greiner Foam division.

The activities in the field of foam production were bundled in a joint venture with the Belgian company Recticel in 1992 and operate throughout Europe under the name Eurofoam . First, after the fall of the iron curtain, the foam markets in Hungary and Poland were opened up. The joint venture was later expanded to include Germany.

Since July 1, 2010, Eurofoam has been managed together with Greiner MULTIfoam under the newly founded Greiner Foam , which is also based in Kremsmünster. In 2012, Greiner Foam founded a joint venture (Unifoam) in South Africa and thus Greiner's first production site on the African continent. In April 2020, Greiner increased its stake in Eurofoam to 100%.

Structure of the company

All corporate divisions have been managed by Greiner Holding AG , Kremsmünster, founded in 1986, since mid-2014 . The company has been operating under the name Greiner AG since October 2018 . The Greiner AG is a 100% family-owned.

The four Greiner divisions are thus today (as of May 2020) as follows.

  • Greiner Packaging : produces plastic packaging for the food and non-food area. The product range includes a. Plastic cups, cups made of cardboard-plastic combinations, plastic bottles, containers and buckets, as well as tailor-made plastic parts and products as well as their assembly and refinement.
  • Greiner Bio-One : is active in the field of medical technology. The Preanalytics business area develops and produces collection systems for human and veterinary samples from blood, urine and saliva, as well as digital system solutions (Greiner eHealth Technologies) that ensure greater efficiency and patient safety in the preanalytical process. The BioScience business area is dedicated to special products for the cultivation and analysis of cell cultures as well as microplates for high throughput screening. The third business area is Mediscan, as a competent service provider in the field of sterilization of medical products, disinfection of food packaging or functional improvement of plastics and semiconductors by means of ionizing radiation.
  • Greiner Foam : bundles Greiner's foam competencies with the companies Greiner Perfoam, Greiner aerospace, Greiner MULTIfoam, Greiner PURTEC and the Eurofoam and Unifoam joint ventures. Greiner Foam is active in the areas of polyurethane foam (PU foam), automotive, aviation and building technology. Eurofoam and Unifoam produce and process flexible polyurethane foams for the upholstered furniture, mattress and vehicle industries as well as for environmental and building technology. Greiner Perfoam develops and produces functional visible interior parts as well as specially coordinated acoustic components for the engine and interior of premium vehicles. Greiner aerospace is a specialist in seat cushions and seat covers for passenger aircraft. Greiner MULTIfoam produces recycled composite foam for the sports, shoe and construction industries. The subsidiary GuKoTech produces high-quality products made of rubber and cork for the construction industry, load securing as well as for acoustic damping and insulation. Greiner PURTEC is a specialist in highly efficient thermal insulation for hot water storage tanks.
  • Greiner Extrusion : offers extrusion lines, tools and complete systems for profile extrusion. The core competence of the Greiner Extrusion Group is process know-how in profile extrusion - the development, design, manufacture and process optimization of tools and extrusion lines. The range of services extends from formulation development through extrusion systems and tools to setting up entire extrusion operations.

In addition to the four operational divisions, Greiner AG also includes Greiner Real Estate , Greiner Technology & Innovation and the Greiner crèche .

Others

  • In 1992, CA Greiner und Söhne Gesellschaft mbH received the state award and was allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions. However, due to restructuring in 1999 and 2001 respectively, this right expired. However, the Greiner Packaging subsidiary received this award again before 2006.
  • In connection with the hunt for the Heilbronn phantom , it became known in March 2009 that various police stations in Germany, Austria and France were using swabs (cotton swabs) from Greiner Bio One International AG to record DNA traces at crime scenes, even though these, according to the Companies are not at all suitable for this, as they are sterile, but contain DNA residues from the production process. Such DNA contamination led to the mistaken hunt for a “phantom perpetrator”. In fact, there was no perpetrator, but the investigators or the forensic laboratory had been exposed to the DNA contamination of the swab sets. After the investigation mishap became known, the company indicates on its website that the swab sets purchased from the police stations are not suitable for this purpose at all, which was noted in the product description and the package insert from the beginning. At the end of July 2009, the Stuttgart public prosecutor announced that there would be no preliminary investigation against the suppliers of the smear sets (the Greiner Bio-One ). The observation process against the company had ended, said a spokesman for the authority. An initial suspicion against the company due to false pretenses could not be established.
  • In June 2015 the German Federal Cartel Office imposed fines amounting to 75 million euros on the five automotive suppliers Autoneum , Carcoustics from Leverkusen, the subsidiary Greiner Perfoam, Ideal Automotive from Burgebrach and the German subsidiary of International Automotive Components (IAC) in Düsseldorf illegal price fixing in the period from 2005 to 2013.

See also

Web links

Commons : Greiner Holding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ a b c From a grocery store to an international group. Greiner AG, accessed on May 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Milestones in History. Greiner Packaging International GmbH, accessed on May 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Products. Greiner Packaging International GmbH, accessed on September 18, 2013 .
  7. ↑ http://greiner-aerospace.com/
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / greiner-purtec.com
  9. ↑ http://www.eurofoam.at/
  10. ↑ http://www.greiner-multifoam.com/
  11. ↑ http://www.greiner-gfi.com/
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  13. ↑ Greiner takes over Eurofoam. Greiner AG, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Greiner AG Annual Report 2019 (PDF) Greiner AG, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  15. ^ Greiner Real Estate. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Greiner Technology & Innovation. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Directory of state coat of arms, accessed on April 6, 2020
  18. ↑ Report on spiegel-online.de. Retrieved July 31, 2009 .
  19. ↑ The Federal Cartel Office imposes fines of EUR 75 million on automotive suppliers. Bundeskartellamt , June 24, 2015, accessed on June 24, 2015 .