Gurit Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0008012236 |
| founding | 1835 |
| Seat |
Wattwil , Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 3027 |
| sales | 576 million CHF (2019) |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.gurit.com |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Gurit Holding AG (until April 2006 Gurit-Heberlein AG), headquartered in Wattwil is in the development and manufacture of high-performance plastics specialist, international Swiss industrial group. The group of companies employs more than 3,000 people worldwide and generated sales of 576.4 million Swiss francs in 2019. The company is listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX Swiss Exchange listed ; Course information is available on the electronic course information services under the code GUR.
Field of activity
As a supplier, Gurit develops and manufactures high-performance plastics, in particular for the wind energy industry, for applications in the transport sector ( aircraft construction , railways and for the boat building industry) as well as in the field of mold construction and automation solutions for the production of wind rotor blades (tooling) and kitting. Services.
The range of materials consists of core materials such as structural foams and balsa wood, fiber-reinforced plastics ( prepregs ), adhesives , resins , consumables . The product range is supplemented by extensive engineering services, particularly in the marine market (boat building). Since 2010 Gurit has also been a leading supplier of designs for the manufacture of rotor blades for wind turbines.
history
The company was founded in 1835 by Georg Philipp Heberlein as a yarn dyeing factory. The second generation of owners, under which the development from commercial to industrial operation took place, introduced artificial dyes , the third introduced yarn mercerization (1897), piece dyeing and printing (1916).
In 1927, Heberlein, now converted into a stock corporation and employing over 1,200 people, bought the Neue Schweizer Kattundruckerei in Richterswil and shut it down in 1929. In their place, Heberlein built the Richterswil (Gurit) rubber works.
After the Second World War, the Heberlein grew with the texturing of man-made fibers ( Helanca ). The process was licensed worldwide and its own machine factory was built.
At the end of the 1960s, the company diversified in the direction of chemicals and plastics and in 1967 took over the company Coltène in Altstätten, which specializes in dental products , in 1969 the textile group Arova based in Flurlingen and in 1973 the film manufacturer Worbla AG in Ittigen .
In the meantime, Gurit founded the joint venture Gurit-Essex together with the US chemical company Essex Chemical in 1968, which subsequently specialized in the production of adhesives for the automotive industry. In the 1970s, the company got out of the collapsed texturing market.
With the spin-off of Heberlein Textil in 1999, which was completely closed in 2001, Gurit ended its change from a textile to a chemical and plastics group. This was followed by various adjustments to the new direction. In 2000 Gurit sold its 50 percent stake in Gurit-Essex to Dow Chemical , which in the meantime became the majority shareholder of Essex Chemical.
In 2006 the Gurit-Heberlein Group was split up into the two companies Gurit (high-performance composite materials ) and Medisize (medical and dental business).
In 2009, Gurit acquired the Chinese wind blade mold maker Suzhou Red Maple Wind Blade Mold Co. Ltd. Swissinfo
In 2018, with the acquisition of JSB, a global core material kitting service provider for the global wind turbine industry joined the group. Finance and economy
In 2019, Gurit's portfolio of industrial activities includes high-performance composites and technologies-oriented activities: composite materials, core kitting, wind blade tooling, aerospace and composite structural engineering. The company has offices and manufacturing facilities in Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Ecuador, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Italy, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey and the USA.
Web links
- Homepage of Gurit Holding AG
- "Gurit-Heberlein" in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
- Adrian Knoepfli: Gurit-Heberlein. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2019. (pdf) Retrieved on February 29, 2020 (English).