Heidenreich & Harbeck
| Heidenreich & Harbeck GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1868 |
| Seat |
Mölln , Germany
|
| management | Stefan Maier |
| Number of employees | 115 |
| sales | 11.1 million euros ( gross profit ) |
| Branch | foundry |
| Website | www.hh-moelln.de |
| As of May 31, 2015 | |
The Heidenreich & Harbeck GmbH is the largest industrial company in Mölln in the Duchy of Lauenburg . The foundry and machine factory employs around 160 internal and external employees. The core business consists in the production of cast and ready-to-install machined components for the mechanical engineering industry. The company name (company) is taken over from the former, now closed Hamburg parent company, which bought the Möllner parent company in 1927.
history
The Hamburg headquarters
Heidenreich & Harbeck was founded in Hamburg in 1868 . The focus of production was on the manufacture of lathes . The company premises were in Glashüttenstrasse ( Karolinenviertel ), where a new factory building was built in 1907. When the need for lathes for the production of guns and ammunition grew during the First World War , the company was relocated to the Barmbek district on the eastern edge of the Jarrestadt . The building was occupied in 1917 and extended to Hufnerstraße during the heyday of production.
During the Second World War , 60 percent of production was converted to rifle and artillery and around 350 forced laborers were assigned to the company, whose compensation has been refused to this day. Because of the arms production, a connection between the plant and the Hamburg freight bypass was established.
In 1950 the parent company was considered to be trend-setting in lathe construction , and the company employed 1,500 people.
In 1951, the company was awarded the contract to build the Great Schmidt Mirror for the Hamburg observatory as a West German partner of Zeiss Jena . The designer Walter Strewinski was responsible for the mount , Zeiss for the optics. In 1963 Heidenreich & Harbeck manufactured an identical mount for ESO 's Schmidt mirror telescope .
As an additional branch of the company, the first high-performance blow molding machine for the production of beer bottles from PVC was developed and sold under the name "Corpoplast". In 1971 this process was switched to PET .
After Martin Harbeck's death in 1972, his son sold the company in full to the competing Gildemeister AG from Bielefeld, after it had acquired a stake in 1970.
The area for the production of plastic bottles was made independent in 1975 and sold to the Krupp Group in 1979.
On March 15, 1976, Gildemeister announced the intended closure of production. As early as 1977, 800 of the then approximately 1,000 employees were laid off.
The Japanese company Makino entered Heidenreich & Harbeck with an equity stake in October 1978 and had its products manufactured. In 1999 the Hamburg parent company was renamed Makino GmbH. The company worked as a sales organization for Japanese lathes at the old location until 2007.
Today's company in Mölln
In 1927 the machine tool factory Heidenreich & Harbeck from Hamburg bought the disused iron foundry Hoffmann & Tödt in Mölln. This emerged from the Burmester machine factory and iron foundry founded in 1859 and was built in 1923 at the current location, conveniently located right next to the Möllner train station ( Lübeck – Lüneburg line ). However, it had to cease operations as a result of the global economic crisis.
After the takeover by Heidenreich & Harbeck, the foundry developed into the largest industrial company in Mölln. Before the Second World War, it was expanded to include a large parts preprocessing workshop, which was expanded in the 1960s for finishing with induction hardening of machine tool guideways.
In 1978 the Mölln company was converted into a GmbH as an independent subsidiary of Gildemeister, which was supposed to supply the group and customers from general mechanical engineering with cast components.
From 1978 to 1989 the Möllner foundry was completely overhauled and a flexible, automated large part processing system was set up, in which, for the first time in Europe, cast parts weighing up to 8 t were processed in smaller batches with little supervision.
In 1993 the company was bought from Gildemeister in a management buy-out by the managing directors Ernst du Maire and Siegfried Puls. From 1988 onwards, the company's own design and calculation department was set up to support customers in the development of castings and to obtain greater freedom of design for cast components. Research work on the economic, systematic development of form design that is appropriate to the force flow through the simulation of natural growth processes (Biocast) led to an offer of a development service with integrated prototype production. In 2002 the company was transformed into a small, unlisted stock corporation. In 2008 it was taken over by the Schloss Neugattersleben group of companies, and in 2011 a comprehensive modernization of the foundry began.
On August 11, 2012, the board announced that it had applied for an application to open “ insolvency proceedings in self-administration ” and the appointment of an administrator at the responsible local court in Schwarzenbek . In June 2013, the bankruptcy proceedings were lifted thanks to the commitment of an entrepreneurial family. Since then the company has been operating as Heidenreich & Harbeck GmbH. In 2017 Heidenreich & Harbeck received the AGCO Global Supplier Award.
In 2015, the then insolvent foundry TechnoGuss from Tangerhütte was acquired by the same family of entrepreneurs .
Products
Components made of gray and nodular cast iron are manufactured for general mechanical engineering. The focus is on prismatic components for the machine tool industry .
Web links
- Homepage of the company, operating facility only in Mölln, large cast parts manufacturer
- Film about the closure of the company in 1976 at Heidenreich and Harbeck Hamburg
- Video: We weren't winners - but we fought and a. about the decline of Heidenreich and Harbeck
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015
- ↑ regenbogen-hamburg.de ( 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.
- ↑ Harbeck is jubilant . In: Die Zeit , No. 28/1950
- ^ J. Schramm: Stars over Hamburg - The history of astronomy in Hamburg , 2nd revised and expanded edition, Kultur- & Geschichtkontor , Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811271-8-8
- ↑ customer-magazine.de
- ↑ gildemeister.com
- ↑ khscorpoplast.com ( 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. (PDF)
- ↑ beruferpolitik.de (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ beruferpolitik.de (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ 沿革 / History. Makino Furaisu Seisakujo, accessed July 21, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ Historical overview. (No longer available online.) Makino Europe GmbH, archived from the original on September 11, 2009 ; Retrieved July 21, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ maschinenmarkt.vogel.de
- ↑ Abendblatt.de
- ↑ Foundry in Mölln files for bankruptcy ( 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. , Lübecker Nachrichten of August 12, 2012, accessed on August 12, 2012
- ↑ Acquisition of TechnoGuss GmbH in Tangerhütte , August 25, 2015
