Grillo works

Grillo-Werke AG
legal form	AG
founding	1842
Seat	Duisburg , Germany
management	Ulrich Grillo (Chairman) Christian Ohm
Number of employees	1,455
sales	310.56 million euros
Branch	Metal and chemical industry
Website	www.grillo.de
As of September 30, 2015

Ulrich Grillo, CEO, Berlin 2013

The Grillo-Werke AG is an internationally operating family of metal and chemical industry. The head office is in Duisburg , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Companies

Over 150 shareholders hold a stake in Grillo-Werke AG, which generated sales of around EUR 310 million in 2015. The Grillo-Werke AG is 87% financed with outside capital, with the company's assets amounting to 44 million euros. The company has been in the red for years. Due to a deferred tax burden since 1999 (which amounts to more than half of the equity of Grillo-Werke AG), the municipalities agreed to keep these debts for many years in order not to take away the company's livelihood. Grillo-Werke AG is a subsidiary of the Grillo Group. The Grillo Group, which has a turnover of 637.85 million euros, is owned by the children of Herbert Grillo , Gabriela and Rainer Grillo. The subsidiary of the Grillo Group, Grillo-Werke AG, has 150 shareholders around Rainer and Gabriela Grillo (66%) and Ulrich Grillo . Ulrich Grillo's father held less than 2% of the shares in the Grillo works. In the course of his appointment as CEO of the entire group, Grillo acquired a share of almost 10% in Grillo-Werke AG. The purchase price was almost 6 million euros and was made with 1 million euros in equity. Except for the years 1988 to 1994, family members have always been at the top of the company. Gabriela and Ulrich Grillo are currently at the top .

history

Wilhelm Grillo founded a hardware store in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1842 and a zinc rolling mill in Duisburg-Neumühl in 1848 . The company quickly grew to become the largest manufacturer of semi-finished zinc products in Germany. In 1855 Grillo built a production facility for bright white zinc oxide , known as zinc white, in Oberhausen . At this location he also operated two rolling mills for raw zinc and a gas generation plant. From 1881 he produced the required raw zinc in his own smelter in Duisburg- Hamborn . The sulfur dioxide gases produced there were sold or processed into sulfuric acid . The companies also developed into the largest in Germany in the areas of zinc white and SO ₂ sales.

In 1893 the works became a stock company for the zinc industry.

Production came to a standstill in the Second World War, but with the exception of the zinc smelter, they were rebuilt.

The company has been operating under the name Grillo-Werke AG since 1966. The wholly owned subsidiary Rheinzink , based in Datteln, was also established in 1966 .

In 1974 the Grillo-Werke relocated their headquarters entirely to Duisburg-Hamborn and thus withdrew completely from Oberhausen.

In 2016, the company reported a breakthrough in the use of methane as a material (see CH activation ). Highly pure methanesulfonic acid is obtained through the direct conversion of methane with sulfur trioxide . The process ("IP and Know How") was sold to BASF in 2019.

Key figures

The company shows the following data in its key figures from 2013:

• Approximately 170,000 tons of zinc and zinc-containing waste materials (that is waste from iron and steel production), 90,000 tons of sulfur, 100,000 tons of sulfur-containing waste materials and 50,000 tons of other chemicals are processed annually.
• Around 160,000 tons of products made from metallic zinc, 245,000 tons of sulfuric acids and oleum , 110,000 tons of liquefied sulfur dioxide and trioxide , 105,000 tons of sodium sulfite and sulfate , 35,000 tons of zinc oxides and sulfate are manufactured annually .

In 2018, the Grillo plants employed a total of 1,600 people, more than half of which were accounted for by the Rheinzink subsidiary.

In addition to the headquarters in Duisburg, there are other locations in Frankfurt, Oker / Goslar as well as France, Belgium and Great Britain.

The Grillo Group is divided into the Metal, Chemical, Zinc Oxide and Rheinzink divisions. The Grillo Group also includes the companies ASB Informationstechnik GmbH, Chemad GmbH, Grillo Immobilienverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG, Hamborner Dach- und Fassadentechnik GmbH & Co. KG.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corporate governance
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Gazette : Annual and consolidated financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015
3. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/fuehrungswechsel-grillos-bdi-amt-hatte-seinem-unternehmen-zuletzt-geschadet/13726936-2.html
4. ↑ https://heft.manager-magazin.de/MM/2017/3/149612746/
5. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/fuehrungswechsel-grillos-bdi-amt-hatte-seinem-unternehmen-zuletzt-geschadet/13726936-2.html
6. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/neuer-bdi-chef-ulrich-grillo-ich-bin-energieintensiv/7436168.html
7. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/neuer-bdi-chef-ulrich-grillo-ich-bin-energieintensiv/7436168.html
8. ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements of Ulrich Grillo Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH for the financial year from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007
9. ↑ Michael McCoy: German firm claims new route to methanesulfonic acid . In: Chemical & Engineering News . tape 94 , no. 26 , 2016, p. 10 , doi : 10.1021 / cen-09426-notw7 .
10. ↑ Michael McCoy: Grillo sells methanesulfonic acid process to BASF . In: Chemical & Engineering News . tape 97 , no. 31 , 2019, pp. 16 , doi : 10.1021 / cen-09731-buscon12 .
11. ↑ Grillo-Werke AG key figures

literature

• Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV: Duisburger Hüttenwerke , Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-364-8 .

Web links

• Website of the Grillo-Werke AG
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~18~11816

• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Grillo works in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .