Haldenwanger

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Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH

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founding 1865
Seat Waldkraiburg , Germany
management Joachim Mayer
Number of employees approx. 450 (all locations)
sales approx. 30 million euros (only Waldkraiburg location )
Branch Fine ceramic industry
Website www.morgantechnicalceramics.com
Status: 2019

The Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH (to 2014 W. Haldenwanger GmbH & Co. KG ) with the present headquarters in Waldkraiburg provides since 1865 technical ceramics ago. Of the once important names in technical ceramics in Berlin, the only company that remained was W. Haldenwanger, since the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) only produced handcrafted porcelain. In 2014 Haldenwanger had a turnover of around 30 million euros with 225 employees.

Companies

Haldenwanger GmbH has been part of the British Morgan Group since 1997 , where it belongs to the Technical Ceramics Division. As of 2016, the company was also given responsibility for the Morgan locations in Fairfield (NJ, USA) and Yixing (China) .

Products

Haldenwanger is now mainly high-performance ceramics, inter alia, for high temperature applications forth, for example, tubes, rolls, profiles, and kiln furniture mainly from aluminum oxide ( "Alsint"), silicon carbide ( "Halsic"), mullite ( "Pythagoras", "Sillimantin"), silicon dioxide ( Fused silica) and zirconium (IV) oxide . Since 2015, the product portfolio has also included structural foams made of aluminum oxide and quartz glass.

The company is traditionally known for manufacturing laboratory porcelain.

history

In 1865, Wilhelm Haldenwanger, a former employee of KPM , went into business for himself and founded a porcelain factory under his name in Berlin-Tiergarten . There he began with the production of medical porcelain (pharmacy jars and health utensils). Alongside Ernst March , August Niemann and Paul March, Wilhelm Haldenwanger was one of the most important personalities in technical ceramics in Berlin. In 1868/69 his manufactory ran into financial difficulties, so Alfred Bruno Schwarz stepped in as a financier and ensured the company's survival.

Between the years 1870 and 1875, production moved from Tiergarten to Charlottenburg (to today's plaster molding shop ), where it was also expanded. A few years later (1882) production was relocated from Berlin-Charlottenburg to Spandau near Berlin (Heerstraße). In the meantime, Alfred Bruno Schwarz took over all company shares and became the sole owner. The company name "W. Haldenwanger ”remained because of its fame. In 1896 the company took part in the first large trade exhibition in Berlin. In 1910 the production of ceramic pipes began and production was expanded again for this purpose.

From 1945 the factory site in Berlin-Spandau , which was largely destroyed in the Second World War, was rebuilt. Due to the needs of the population, ceramics for domestic use were made in the first post-war years. A short time later, Haldenwanger turned back to technical ceramics. The company grew in the sixties with the boom in the steel industry . In order to be able to supply and support them faster, especially in the Ruhr area , both a sales office and a warehouse were set up in Düsseldorf in 1962 (since 2002: Buntenkötter Technische Keramik GmbH).

Due to an intended capacity expansion and the unsatisfactory industrial suitability of Berlin's city ​​gas , the search for another production site in Germany was made in the early 1960s . The ceramic furnaces should be fired at this point with a high gas quality and the necessary skilled workers should be available. These prerequisites were found at the Waldkraiburg location , so that Plant II was built there at Reichenberger Straße 42 in 1963. Seven years later, the Berlin Plant I was relocated to the Berlin-Spandau industrial park, Pichelswerderstrasse 12. In order to strengthen the export of the products, the sales company ETK Export Technische Keramik, Waldkraiburg / Munich was founded in 1971. In 1985 the Waldkraiburg location was enlarged. Plant III was added (Teplitzer Strasse 27).

SiC production began in 1990. In order to separate the “black” SiC production from the rest of the “white” ceramic production, the plant in Waldkraiburg was enlarged, Plant IV at Traunreuter Straße 13 was built.

On December 8, 1997, the then shareholders (including Ms. Schwekendiek, great-granddaughter of Alfred Bruno Schwarz) sold Haldenwanger including the joint ventures in Yixing (China) and Conroe (Texas) to the English concern Morgan Crucible Company PLC . Since then, the company has been a member of the Morgan Technical Ceramics division. A restructuring in 2004 centralized the production, development and sales activities at the Waldkraiburg location. The quartz production located in Plant II was relocated to Plant V in Ampfing in 2008 due to a modernization process . In 2015 the old factory building on Reichenberger Straße was torn down.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.northdata.de
  2. ↑ www.ceramic-applications.com Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH in the supplier directory of CERAMIC APPLICATIONS
  3. ↑ a b c Even today, laboratory ceramic article on the company's 150th anniversary ( Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , October 2, 2015); accessible via google search
  4. ↑ Haldenwanger Products | Morgan Technical Ceramics
  5. ↑ History | Morgan Technical Ceramics
  6. ↑ Alte Haldenwanger-Fabrik: The demolition has started Article on the demolition of the factory building on Reichenberger Straße ( Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , January 23, 2015)