HegerGuss
| HegerGuss | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | February 12, 1902 |
| Seat | Enkenbach-Alsenborn |
| management | Johannes Heger, Harald Koch, Bernhard Schneider |
| Number of employees | about 300 |
| sales | 80 million euros |
| Branch | Cast iron |
| Website | heger-gruppe.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
The HegerGuss GmbH is a cast iron -Unternehmen headquartered in Palatine Enkenbach-Alsenborn and one of the largest producers of wind power castings in Europe.
history
On February 12, 1902, Karl Heger and Ludwig Müller founded a gray and metal foundry. At the beginning, castings for stoves, ovens, agriculture and commercial castings were produced. After Karl Heger handed over the management to his son Jakob, the focus of the company shifted to chemical, machine and template casting. The company has been in the sole ownership of the Heger family since 1917.
Jakob Heger has been supported by his youngest brother Hans as managing director with equal rights since 1926. Together they expanded the foundry's product range. The first housings for marine diesel engines were cast in 1926. In the same year, the subsidiary “Gebrüder Heger” also began manufacturing high-casting butcher machines. However, it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944 and never rebuilt.
The product range was expanded in the 1930s to include the “Pfalzkelter”, a grape press that was mainly supplied to the wine-growing regions of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saar. Jakob Heger was managing director until his death in 1948. Hans then took over sole management. Hans Heger and his eldest son Hans-Jakob Heger also got involved outside the company. In 1950, Hans Heger was the initiator of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Eigenheim”, in which many employees built houses thanks to considerable personal contribution.
In addition to the foundry, an apparatus manufacturing facility was founded in 1954, which manufactured systems and containers from steel and special steels for the chemical industry. Clearing screws for special ovens, grinding drums for the production of powder for coating tape tapes, autoclaves and agitators were among the products that were also delivered to the Netherlands, Sweden and even as far as Brazil.
Hans Heger died in 1966. His eldest son, Hans-Jakob , had taken over the management of the company the year before. He was one of the first foundry companies to convert the company to a completely new, resource-saving molding process. With the acquisition of the Meehanite license, the quality of the products was significantly improved. Heger gained a profile throughout Germany in the industry and among customers as a sought-after manufacturer of individual pieces and small series made from gray cast iron and increasingly from spheroidal graphite cast iron, a cast iron with steel-like properties. In 1978 the apparatus construction was stopped and Heger concentrated again completely on the casting production.
On the company's 100th anniversary in 2002, Hans-Jakob Heger handed over the sole management to his son Johannes, who had already proven himself as managing director since 1995. At the turn of the millennium, HegerGuss succeeded in making castings for the wind power industry. Johannes Heger brought the company forward as the new managing director. The cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern and the local Fraunhofer institutes was intensified, the simulation of casting processes was decisively further developed and the company expanded.
The most recent step was the establishment of HegerFerrit, an independent, new foundry in the conversion area of the nearby town of Sembach in 2009. A foundry for the serial production of cast components in the weight class up to 30 tons, especially for wind turbines, was built for 25 million euros. This increased the production capacity by 30,000 tons per year.
Corporate structure
In addition to HegerGuss GmbH, the HegerGroup includes the three companies HegerFerrit, HegerPro and HegerGGD.
Innovation and research
The ring-shaped production hall "Round Foundry" of HegerFerrit in Sembach is unique in the world and forms a closed process chain . The aim of the construction of the innovative plant in 2008/2009 was to improve the production processes sustainably. The automated transport on a circular path avoids waiting times and unnecessary transport routes. Each hall is dedicated to only one type of activity and contains workstations that cannot be moved. In this way, processes can be designed to be productive, safe and ergonomically correct and do not interfere with one another. The employees with their personal tools have a permanent workplace and emissions are intercepted on the spot.
In addition, HegerGuss GmbH is heavily involved in material development. Employees are actively involved in the association work as well as in special research committees and projects. Cooperation partners such as B. the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ensure that HegerGuss GmbH is continuously involved in research. In this way, for example, an extended visualization environment was created in cooperation, which for the first time includes a continuous connection between process simulation and component design.
Products
At the two production sites in Enkenbach-Alsenborn and Sembach, both individual items and series of 2,000 components per year in the weight range between 1,000 kg and 30,000 kg are produced. In addition to the classic hollow molding process with wood, plastic and metal models, the full molding process is also used, in which the polystyrene model remains in the mold and is thermally decomposed.
The product range includes components for diesel engines for locomotives, for example, cast parts for gas and steam turbines, numerous parts for mechanical engineering and cast parts for wind power.
literature
- Friedrich W. Weber, Ernst Christmann: From Enkenbach's past. Local government. 2nd edition 1960.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enkenbach-Alsenborn: Heger special foundry creates more jobs. In: rheinpfalz.de. March 27, 2018, accessed November 28, 2018 .
- ^ Johannes Heger | bwe-seminare.de In: bwe-seminare.de , 2011, accessed on November 28, 2018.
- ↑ Milestones - Heger In: heger-gruppe.de , accessed on November 28, 2018.
- ↑ a b Industry 4.0 in the round foundry. HegerFerrit GmbH attaches great importance to digital knowledge management In: Kompetenzzentrum-kaiserslautern.digital , accessed on November 28, 2018.
- ↑ Jürgen Schreier: Heger Guss implements revolutionary foundry concept. In: maschinenmarkt.vogel.de. March 6, 2009, accessed November 28, 2018 .