Hübner (company)
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Huebner GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | May 1, 1946 |
| Seat | Kassel , Germany |
| management | Chairman of the Advisory Board:
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| Number of employees | 2800 (2018) |
| sales | 290 million euros (2016) |
| Branch | Industry , traffic engineering , life sciences |
| Website | www.hubner-group.com |
As a system provider in the Mobility, Materials and Photonics divisions, the Hübner Group manufactures products for traffic engineering industries (e.g. rail vehicles , buses , airport technology, automotive ) as well as for medical technology and the areas of life quality and photonics (high frequency systems, terahertz and laser technology). The product range includes the design and production of bellows , vehicle articulation systems , flexible transition systems, window systems, PUR foam molded parts as well as products made of rubber and plastic injection molding as well as laser systems and terahertz scanners (e.g. for the detection of letter bombs ). In 2017, the group of companies employed around 2,400 people worldwide, 1,000 of them in Hessen.
history
The company was founded in 1946 by Kurt Huebner as a trading company. Six years later (1952) the company manufactured the first folding bellows for articulated buses and started manufacturing rubber products . In 1956, Hübner supplied the first folding bellows for the high-speed train Trans-Europ-Express . In 1961 the name was changed to Kurt Hübner KG . Three years later, the company received one of the first major orders for the manufacture of crossovers for the DB class 614 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In 1968, Hübner started producing polyurethane .
A new name change to Hübner GmbH was made in 1973. In 1979 the production of the first corrugated bellows for rail vehicles began. In 1985 the company founder Kurt Huebner died - the management is taken over by his son Reinhard Huebner; In 1988, Günther Schwind was appointed an additional managing director.
In 1989 the first ICE transfers were made ready for series production. The manufacture of articulation systems for buses began in the mid-1990s. In 2000, the company started manufacturing window systems for buses and rail vehicles. With Harald Ossendorff, another managing director was appointed in the same year.
In 2004, the production of ramps and lifts for traffic engineering sectors again expanded the product portfolio. Since 2010, Helge Förster has been running the company as the third managing director alongside Reinhard Hübner and Harald Ossendorff. In 2013 there was another name change to Hübner GmbH & Co. KG . A year later the management was expanded with Ingolf Cedra. Harald Ossendorf left the management at the end of 2017, his successor was Roland Kühnel (until mid-2019).
In 2012, Hübner took over Bellow & Bus (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa, in 2015 Cobolt AB in Sweden. Since 2016 belongs Hemscheidt Engineering , since 2007 the Hemscheid chassis technology to Hübner Group. In 2018 it was announced that Hübner will equip the new generation of the New York subway with connection technology for passage between individual train wagons from 2020. Such systems are being used for the first time in US subway traffic.
Locations
The Hübner GmbH & Co. KG has its headquarters in Kassel. There is a plant in Bettenhausen and three other production facilities in the Waldau industrial area. The company is also represented in 14 other countries. In 1979, the first production facility abroad was established in Brazil . In the 1990s, additional locations were added in the USA and Hungary . Hübner has also been positioned in China since 2002 and in Russia and Sweden since 2003 . As early as 2004, the company established itself in two other European countries, Italy and France . In 2011 new locations were opened in India and the United Kingdom, as well as in South Africa in 2012 and Malaysia in 2013. Locations in Turkey and Colombia were added later.
In April 2019, Hübner took over Gummi-Welz GmbH & Co. KG with headquarters in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria . According to Hübner, this was the largest takeover in the company's history to date. GWU employs more than 500 people across Europe and has five locations in Germany, Poland and Turkey. The medium-sized company supplies the bus, train and special vehicle industries with door sealing and security systems.
In addition to the US locations in Mount Pleasant (South Carolina) and San Josė (California) , Hübner plans to open a plant in Dunlap (Tennessee) in 2020.
Products and services
- Display and driver assistance systems for rail vehicles
- Entry systems
- Vehicle articulation systems
- Bellows
- Folded canopies for passenger boarding bridges
- Window systems
- Rubber systems
- High frequency systems
- Laser technology
- Terahertz Technology
- Plastic products
- PUR molded foam parts
- Quick-change window systems
- service
- Special solutions
- Technical Textiles
- Transition systems for rail vehicles and buses
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Electronic Federal Gazette, August 31, 2017, consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2016.
- ↑ Family business: Hardly any train or bus manufacturer can avoid Reinhard Huebner's company. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Kassel Huebner Group active worldwide with rail technology, auto parts and high-tech . In: https://www.hna.de/ . September 15, 2017 ( hna.de [accessed November 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Family business: Hardly any train or bus manufacturer can avoid Reinhard Huebner's company. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
- ↑ hubner-group.com
- ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Technology from Hessen connects New York subways - Business News. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 25, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Gassmann: Mittelstand: German companies left with Brexit . February 3, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
- ↑ HÜBNER locations worldwide. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Location is growing: Family company Hübner puts new hall into operation. May 16, 2018, accessed February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Group of companies strengthens position in the field of material solutions - HÜBNER takes over GWU group. April 9, 2019. (gummi-welz.de)
- ↑ Hübner sets up elastomer production in Tennessee. March 7, 2019 (plastverarbeiter.de)
- ↑ hubner-group.com