Hauert HBG fertilizer

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Hauert HBG Dünger AG

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legal form Corporation
founding June 18, 1663
Seat Grossaffoltern BE SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Philipp Hauert
Number of employees 100 (2015)
sales 30–50 million CHF (2014)
Branch fertilizer
Website www.hauert.com

The Hauert HBG fertilizer AG is a Swiss manufacturer of fertilizers for horticulture and organic farming . The company holds 60 percent of the Swiss market for specialty fertilizers. It has been family-owned since 1663, making it one of the 57 oldest companies in the country and the oldest family-run company.

history

On June 18, 1663 Adam Hauert received the concession to operate a tannery from Schultheiss and the city council . Every tannery had a pounder for chopping up the oak bark . But it was also used to crush animal bones. The farmers used the crushed bones as fertilizer on the fields.

Alexander Hauert (1876–1955) and his brother Fritz (1875–1929), who ran the tannery in the ninth generation, saw themselves forced to give up the tannery in 1911. They kept the bone mill and produced fodder bone meal for livestock and fertilizer as the “Gebrüder Hauert”.

According to the Hauert Chronicle , Alexander Hauert and his son Johann (1905–1988) founded the collective company Hauert & Co. on August 1, 1929. The new company relocated the bone mill to the former fruit store in Suberg and henceforth focused on the production of fertilizers.

Hauert's fertilizer factory around 1960

Since 2006 the company has been run by Philipp Hauert in the twelfth generation. He has been the sole owner since 2010. In 2007 the company took over the German fertilizer manufacturer Günther Cornufera, with the aim of being represented in the European market. Linked to this was the founding of Hauert Günther Düngerwerke GmbH in Nuremberg. In 2018, the German company Manna in Ammerbuch was transferred to Hauert Manna Düngerwerke GmbH. According to the Handelszeitung , Hauert has become the "Swiss number one for specialty fertilizers".

The warehouse and shipping building built in 2001 (around 2008)

The company experienced slumps in the 1990s. When bone meal was banned in the wake of BSE , Hauert had to burn fertilizer worth several million francs . And after the prices for the raw materials nitrogen , potassium and phosphorus rose by 160 percent within a few months due to increased demand on the world market, Hauert temporarily had to pay a high price for complying with the contracts with major customers.

Hauert has had its own laboratory since 1985, which, among other things, serves basic research for fertilizer development and in which soil studies for home gardens can also be requested. Both laboratory and field tests are carried out for testing raw materials and recipes. The company is the only one among medium-sized European fertilizer manufacturers that carries out research on this scale. Cooperations exist with the research institutes Agroscope and FiBL .

One of the most important innovations is a non-organic fertilizer with retarding nutrient release developed by Hauert in collaboration with Agroscope. In 1972, the company was the first in Europe to introduce a resin - coated slow release fertilizer . Since 2005, with the large-scale implementation of the patented Sphero process invented by Hans-Jürgen and Phillip Hauert, it has been producing dust-free fertilizer granules.

Today the company is the only one that produces fertilizers for professional use in Switzerland. Around 30,000 tons of fertilizer are produced annually. Hauert makes 80% of its sales in the first few months of the year. From the end of May, the demand for fertilizer decreases rapidly.

Products and target group

Office building in Grossaffoltern around 2008

The company produces organic and organic-mineral special fertilizers for house gardens, horticulture, sports fields and organic farming , a total of 1,600 different fertilizer products, the majority of which are manufactured at the company's headquarters in Switzerland. Some of the products bear the Swiss organic label . The Hauert Biorga Dünger brand has its own product line for organic farming and horticulture. The company supplies organic vegetable growers, gardeners and tree nurseries, landscape gardeners and hobby gardeners through wholesalers. Hauert is the exclusive supplier for Borussia Dortmund's stadium lawn fertilizer . Special fertilizers are supplied to various European countries, in particular to Austria, Poland and the Netherlands.

Locations

The company is based in Grossaffoltern ; the factory is located in the village of Suberg, which belongs to Grossaffoltern. The German subsidiary Hauert Günther Düngerwerke GmbH and Hauert Manna Düngerwerke GmbH are located in Nuremberg, and there is a small production site in Saarbrücken . In 2015, the company started up a plant for the production of methylene urea fertilizer in Groningen .

publication

  • Bernadette Hauert, Philipp Hauert, Hans-Jürg Hauert, Hans Peter Wegmüller, Ruedi Hauert: 350 years - out of love for nature . Self-published (company chronicle for the 350th anniversary), Grossaffoltern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03303922-3 (56 pages, hauert.com [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Benno Stieber: Hauert fertilizer . In: Brand eins , number 12/2015
  2. ↑ a b c Pascal Ihle: The oldest companies in Switzerland , in: Handelszeitung , No. 44, November 1, 2012, p. 38
  3. ^ A b Christian Strübin: Hauert has been sprouting gardens for 12 generations , SRF , April 29, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Hauert has been blooming for 350 years. In: The Bund . February 20, 2013, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hauert Chronik, website hauert-duenger.de
  6. ↑ a b Daphne Huber: Günther Cornufera goes to Swiss fertilizer manufacturer , Agrarzeitung, October 10, 2007
  7. ↑ Hauert Dünger takes over Manna Düngemittel , Bieler Tagblatt, August 16, 2018
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h Corinne Remund: A very fine feel for the market. Schweizerische Gewerbezeitung, October 21, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research EAER, Agroscope: List of recognized laboratories for the control of organic fertilizers . Definitive version of July 2, 2018 (pdf, p. 2)
  10. ^ Elisabeth Jacob: Lust for garden. Planning, planting, caring for - Tips for beginners and experienced gardeners , Observer Edition, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85569-516-4 , p. 57
  11. ↑ Othmar Gut: Trial inspection of organic lawn fertilization. (PDF) dergartenbau (Swiss trade magazine), issue 22, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Effective immediately , in: TASPO .de, January 31, 2009
  13. ↑ Patent EP2266936B1 : fertilizer tablets and process for their production. Registered on June 25, 2009 , published on April 3, 2013 , applicant: Hauert HBG Dünger AG, CH, inventor: Hauert Hans-Jürg .; Tushes Phillip. ‌
  14. ↑ Eleven new organic fertilizers for professionals , Taspo, January 22, 2017
  15. ↑ Hauert starts production in the Netherlands and enters the methylene urea market , dergartenbau, December 24, 2015