Harles and Jentzsch

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Harles and Jentzsch GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1980
Seat Uetersen
management Heiko Fialski, insolvency administrator
Number of employees 15 (2010)
sales 20.0 million euros (2010)
Branch Animal feed , technical chemicals

The Harles and Jentzsch GmbH is a German chemical company that specializes in the processing and distribution of animal and vegetable oils / fats and their derivatives has specialized. It produces feed fats as feed or compound feed components for the agricultural sector and chemical fats as technical chemicals for the paper and chemical industries . The company, which was founded in 1980, is managed in the legal form of a GmbH ; its headquarters have been in Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein since the mid-1990s .

The company is at the center of a feed scandal (" dioxin scandal") that became known at the end of 2010 and in which, according to the authorities, at least 3,000 tons of dioxin-contaminated feed fat was delivered to numerous German feed manufacturers for further processing. For the most part, it remained unclear where the contaminated fat got from there and how much food was contaminated.

On January 12, 2011, Harles und Jentzsch GmbH filed for insolvency proceedings with the Pinneberg District Court .

On May 1, 2011, the Pinneberg District Court opened insolvency proceedings over the assets of Harles und Jentzsch GmbH.

Companies

Company profile and structure

Company premises in Uetersen (2011)

Harles und Jentzsch produces, among other things, feed fats for pigs , cattle , poultry and laying hens . The company also produces technical fatty acids for industry. The agricultural and chemical products are sold under the uniform brand name HAJENOL , whereby the various individual products are identified by additional names.

Most of the feed fats are supplied to the compound feed industry directly and partly via special processors, where they are added to feed. The chemical greases are delivered directly to customers in the chemical industry as well as to the paper industry via special processing companies. The sales areas each cover the whole of Europe .

The production site and company headquarters is the city of Uetersen, which is located in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Pinneberg and which is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region. According to the company, the convenient location enables “inexpensive procurement of raw materials from all parts of the world via the Port of Hamburg ”.

During the 2006 financial year, Helmut Schwabe and Siegfried Sievert (* 1952) ran the company together until November of that year, and Sievert has been the sole managing director since November 2006 .

According to Harles and Jentzsch, “ another tank farm was built at the Lübbe forwarding company in Bösel / Südoldenburg for the interim storage of feed fats” in order to increase “flexibility and ability to deliver”. This location - the town Boesel in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony - is located in the Oldenburger Münsterland ( "South Oldenburg"), a mainly agrarian until today region with the highest density of poultry, pork and beef farms ( factory farming ) in Germany and a correspondingly high Demand for feed. According to its own information, Lübbe Transport & Logistik has a tank farm on its premises there with a total volume of currently 480 tons, which also includes a stirring and mixing station for fats.

For quality assurance, Harles and Jentzsch, according to their own statements, run their own laboratory in Uetersen and work together with universities and scientific institutes in research and development. The company was recertified in 2008 according to the quality management standard DIN EN ISO 9001: 2008 , including the HACCP concept and GMP . Harles and Jentzsch were also QS certified by DEKRA in October 2010 .

Key figures

Production facilities and storage tanks in Uetersen (2011)
Storage tank in Uetersen (2011)

The company continuously increased its sales in the 2000s and attributes this to the high demand for vegetable and animal oils, fats and fat by-products at a “fixed price level”. According to the managing director Siegfried Sievert in January 2011, the annual turnover “most recently was around 20 million euros”.

Key figures of Harles und Jentzsch GmbH
2005 2006 2007 2008 2010
Balance sheet - assets (in € million) 4.3 4.9 7.2 9.3
Net profit for the year (in million €) 0.6 0.7 1.8 2.4
Employees (annual average) k. A. 7th 12 13 15th
Legend: k. A. = no information or not known;
2005 results were taken from the 2006 annual financial statements.

For the business year 2008 the company showed an annual surplus of 2.4 million euros.

Business areas

The following business areas are named in the 2006–2008 annual financial statements:

  • Feed fats for delivery to the compound feed industry
  • Deinking soaps and deinking fatty acids for delivery via further processing companies to the paper industry
  • rumen-protected feed fats ( calcium soap ) for delivery via processing plants to the compound feed industry
  • technical animal fats for delivery to the chemical industry
  • distilled and fractionated fatty acids for delivery to the chemical industry

Holdings

Harles und Jentzsch has a 100% share in Protank - Produktions- und Tanklager - GmbH , Uetersen, founded in 1995 , and 50% in UNA-Synth Uetersener Naturstoffextraktion und Custom Synthesis GmbH , Uetersen, founded in 2000 . Siegfried Sievert is also the managing director of Protank , and Wolfgang Petersen is managing director of UNA-Synth .

history

Until 1993

The former sawmill in Uetersen on the monastery dike (1860)

The flow of the Pinnau located premises in Uetersen is used at least since the 19th century as a commercial and manufacturing base, with raw materials and goods sometimes also by ship directly from the same Toggle opens Pinnau were respectively removed. An old sawmill and a lime distillery operated at this location - on the “Klosterdeich” on the right bank of the Pinnau - were taken over in 1854 by the entrepreneur and agricultural scientist Ludwig Meyn (1820–1878), who set up a factory for building materials and fertilizers there. After a fire as a result of an explosion at the end of 1860, Meyn gave up the sawmill and lime production, and later he ran a fertilizer factory there .

After Meyn's death, the factory changed ownership and the type of production several times until Friedrich O. Hofmann set up a fishmeal factory there in 1910 and operated it until 1943. After him, H. (Heinz) Wilhelm Schaumann (1903–1992) took over the "Extraction Plant for Animal Nutrition" and produced egg powder on behalf of the Navy . This production continued after the end of the war until the company was shut down in December 1946.

In 1947, Schaumann put the animal nutrition extraction plant back into operation and made supplementary feed from cod livers , especially for pig fattening. In 1962, Schaumann, now one of the largest feed phosphate processors in Europe, bought the Hamburg fatty acid production company Schmidt & Hagen . He relocated their production to Uetersen and the feed production to Hamburg. Under the new company name, around 40,000 tons of vegetable and animal fats were processed annually in Uetersen, for the production of which, among others, slaughterhouses from all of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony delivered waste, bones, bacon and tallow from dead animals, into twenty different feed additives. In 1980, Schaumann sold Chemische Fabrik Schmidt & Hagen to the Düsseldorf-based Henkel Group , at that time one of the largest fat processing companies in Europe.

A new workforce with new management continued to produce feed fats and distilled fatty acids in Uetersen under the established brand name ESHA . At the end of the 1980s, a new production facility for the production of sodium soap for cleaning waste paper ( deinking ) and rumen-protected fat for ruminants ("lipica fat") was installed. The liquid feed fats were delivered to feed manufacturers throughout West Germany for further processing and exported to other European countries and the Middle East. In addition, the sales department at Schmidt & Hagen dealt with the global trade in raw, semi-finished and finished products, including those from other manufacturers, such as color pigments and photo gelatins. From 1981 to 1984 the company invested around five million DM in environmental protection measures and the construction of five tank systems with a total storage capacity of 1500 tons.

Takeover by Harles and Jentzsch

In 1993, the Henkel Group separated from the company, which was now called Schmidt & Hagen GmbH & Co. KG , and sold it to the previous two managing directors, Harles and Jentzsch. The production of distilled fatty acids was stopped at the end of 1993, while fats for animal nutrition and soaps for environmentally friendly waste paper cleaning continued to be produced. From then on, the company was run as Harles und Jentzsch GmbH and the company's headquarters were relocated to Uetersen in 1994.

Dioxin scandal

At the end of 2010 it was announced that Harles and Jentzsch produced at least 3,000 tons of dioxin- contaminated animal feed fat from delivered, contaminated fat in November and December 2010 and sold it for further processing to feed manufacturers throughout Germany. According to previous investigations by the authorities, the raw material storage as well as the mixing and delivery of these feed fats were carried out by the forwarding company Lübbe Transport & Logistik in Bösel, Lower Saxony, commissioned by Harles and Jentzsch . The dioxin-contaminated raw material fats came via the Dutch dealer Olivet NV from the biodiesel manufacturer Petrotec AG in Emden , which Petrotec denies.

A total of 150,000 tons of feed were added to this 3,000 tons of contaminated feed fat, whereupon several thousand laying hen, turkey and pig fattening farms nationwide (primarily in Lower Saxony) were temporarily banned from market deliveries for precautionary reasons. In January 2011, Germany issued several warnings for feed as part of the European rapid alert system for food and feed .

The public prosecutor's offices in Itzehoe and Oldenburg are investigating violations of food and feed law. As part of the investigation, searches were also carried out in Uetersen and Bösel. Harles und Jentzsch GmbH had already been aware of dioxin contamination in the feed fats it produces and sells since March 2010 through the results of the controls carried out by a private laboratory it commissioned. A spokesman for the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture said the Lübbe haulage company commissioned had no license to store and mix fats for animal feed production.

On January 12, 2011, Harles und Jentzsch GmbH filed for bankruptcy .

On the sidelines of the Green Week in Berlin (January 21-30, 2011), the head of the Russian veterinary authority , Sergej Dankwert, stated that they had already informed the German veterinary authorities in two letters on September 6 and 16, 2010 that deliveries to Russia were being made would not be checked for dioxin accordingly. Due to the dioxin scandal, the Russian veterinary authority stopped importing pork from Germany on January 24, 2011. Imports of live pigs were also restricted.

On February 2, 2012, the appointed insolvency administrator announced that, with the approval of the creditors' committee, the operating facilities and most of the ten employees of the Harles and Jentzsch and Protank GmbHs would be taken over by OleoServ GmbH. For this purpose, OleoServ was founded in Uetersen as a new, sole and independent subsidiary of the Hamburg-based Fritz Köster Handelsgesellschaft AG .

See also

Web links

Commons : Harles und Jentzsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Harles and Jentzsch: Fat production is running again , January 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c dpa report: Harles and Jentzsch: feed fat manufacturers from the north . On: Focus-Money Online , January 7, 2011; Retrieved January 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Feed company Harles und Jentzsch files for bankruptcy . In: Spiegel Online . January 12, 2011, accessed January 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: He sees a future for Harles and Jentzsch
  5. ↑ a b c d e f See company information on the website of Harles und Jentzsch GmbH → About us ( Memento from March 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b c Cf. Harles and Jentzsch GmbH, Uetersen → Annual financial statements 2006–2008 in the electronic Federal Gazette ; Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  7. ↑ See company information on the Lübbe Transport & Logistik GmbH website ; Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  8. ↑ Ariane P. Freier: feed fat company was only certified in October  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Passauer Neue Presse from January 6, 2011; Retrieved January 7, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pnp.de  
  9. ↑ a b See Harles and Jentzsch GmbH, Uetersen → Annual financial statements for the financial year (…) 2008 in the electronic Federal Gazette ; Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  10. ↑ Dr. Ludwig Meyn - a pioneer of natural science ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: 775 years of Uetersen. Contributions to the story on PIN-online. PDF file; Retrieved January 6, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pin-online.com
  11. ↑ a b c d e Manfred Augener: From artificial fertilizers to poisonous feed fat . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 5, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  12. ↑ Chemiker-Zeitung , Volume 40, Verlag der Chemiker-Zeitung, Köthen (Anhalt) 1916, p. 443. ( Excerpt from Google Books ).
  13. ↑ a b c d Marlen Sönnichsen: The Pinnau. (...) Ludwig Meyn converted the sawmill on the monastery dike into an artificial fertilizer factory . In: A river shapes a city. Ed .: Verein Historisches Uetersen, Part XVII, February 21, 2004; Retrieved January 6, 2011.
  14. ↑ a b c Ernst Primosch et al. (Ed.): People and Brands - 125 Years of Henkel / Henkel: 1876–2001 . Henkel KGaA , Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-923324-79-0 .
  15. ↑ Facts and figures on the dioxin scandal . On: FAZ.NET , January 6, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  16. ↑ 3000 tons of contaminated animal feed fat in circulation . On: welt.de , January 5, 2011; accessed on July 15, 2014.
  17. ^ Public prosecutor is investigating Cloppenburger Spedition ( memento of January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). On: NDR.de , January 7, 2011; Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  18. ↑ Dioxin: Investigation proceedings initiated . On: WZ Online (Wiener Zeitung) , January 4, 2011; Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  19. ↑ Petrotec: Mixed fatty acids are not to blame. In: Focus Online . January 12, 2011, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Gunhild Lütge, Fritz Vorholz: Dioxin: How does the poison get into the chicken? In: Wirtschaftswoche . January 17, 2011, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Up to 77 times more dioxin than allowed ( memento of January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), January 7, 2011.
  22. ^ RASFF quick warnings: Feed safety , published by the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety on January 12, 2011; PDF file, accessed January 13, 2011.
  23. ↑ handelsblatt.com: EU Commission intervenes in the dioxin scandal , January 4, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  24. ↑ Public prosecutor searches the feed company . On: Spiegel Online , January 5, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  25. ↑ Much earlier, much more, much worse . On: FAZ.NET , January 8, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  26. ↑ Karl Doeleke: Dioxin fat has been in circulation for ten months . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 7, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  27. ↑ Feed fat company apparently tricked auditors . On: Spiegel Online , January 8, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  28. ^ Ernst-Wilhelm Pape: Illegal fat produced for animal feed ( Memento from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Westfalen-Blatt of January 7, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  29. ↑ (Ag.): "Criminal energy": Dioxin contamination covered up . In: Die Presse of January 7, 2011; Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  30. ↑ Russia has long warned of dioxin problems in Germany. In: Sputnik News . January 22, 2011, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  31. ^ Klaus Plath: New wind is blowing on Deichstrasse ( memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Uetersener Nachrichten , February 2, 2012.

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