Hensel (company)
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1931 |
| Seat | Lennestadt |
| management | Philipp C. Hensel (Chairman), Frank Dubberke and Michael Lehr |
| Number of employees | 800 (2017) |
| sales | 75 million euros |
| Branch | Electrical installation technology |
| Website | www.hensel-electric.de |
The Gustav Hensel GmbH & Co. KG is an independent, owner-managed, medium-sized family of Lennestadt and is one of the world leaders in the installation and distribution technology. The company, which exports to more than 80 countries, employs 800 people, 550 at German locations and another 250 in foreign subsidiaries.
Products
Hensel is active in the development, manufacture and sale of electrical distribution systems as well as low-voltage switchgear, in which it is one of the "technically leading companies in Germany". The company has been a specialist in wet room electrical installation technology since it was founded . The products produced include:
- ENYCASE junction boxes, 1.5–240 mm²
- ENYBOARD small distribution board , 3–54 modules
- ENYSTAR distribution systems made of thermoplastic , up to 250 A.
- ENYMOD distribution system Mi made of thermoplastic , up to 630 A.
- ENYSUN photovoltaic distribution board
- ENYPOWER low-voltage switchgear up to 5,000 A.
- ENYTRAC KT cable carrier
- ENYFIT cable entry systems
history
The electrical engineer Gustav Hensel († 1977) developed a square thermosetting cable junction box made of plastic at the end of the 1920s , which, in contrast to the cast and sheet metal boxes common at the time, made the use of electricity safer (insulation) and cheaper. He founded - during the global economic crisis - on 1 July 1931 in Radevormwald with his former business associate, the businessman Ernst Bisterfeld that Gustav Hensel KG. In 1936 his cousin Gustav Hensels, the electrical engineer Max Hensel († 1989), joined the company as the third partner and drove forward technical development. After the Second World War, the company moved to Altenhundem (Lennestadt) in 1947 , where a factory that had been spared from bombing (the former Tobüren textile clothing factory) was rented and a new factory was built on the green meadow in 1953. Right from the start, the company mainly produced damp-proof electrical installation technology, which continues to shape the company's image today. Between 1970 and 1990 Hensel switched the production from thermoset to thermoplastics . In 1973 another plant was built in Kirchhundem- Würdinghausen , today Hensel Kunststofftechnik GmbH & Co. KG (HKT), in which thermoplastic distribution systems are manufactured. In the 1970s, Hensel had a strong market share in meter systems for apartments in Germany and was hit hard by the downturn in the construction industry. In 1979 a metal processing company in the Kaan-Marienborn district of Siegen was taken over and rebuilt in 1993, which has been an independent part of the Hensel group of companies since 1988 as Hensel Metall-Technik GmbH & Co. KG . After the fall of the Wall in 1989 , the company expanded into other Eastern European countries and founded 8 subsidiaries worldwide for sales and assembly. In 1990 Hensel-Schaltanlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG (HSG) was established in Grimma . Subsidiaries were founded in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary in 1993, in China in 1998, in Russia and India in 2003, and in Turkey in 2008. With foreign sales in 45 countries, Hensel generates 30% of total sales. Internationalization helped cushion the downturn in the construction industry in Germany at the end of the 1990s.
Employees have been able to acquire profit participation rights since 1991. The profit participation capital is just under 4 million euros.
The "Gustav Hensel GmbH & Co. KG" participated in the foundation initiative of the German economy .
Today Hensel is run by Felix G. Hensel, the son of the company founder, and the co-managing directors Frank Dubberke and Philipp Hensel.
Subsidiaries
- Domestic: Hensel Kunststofftechnik (Kirchhundem), Hensel Metall-Technik (Siegen), Hensel Schaltanlagenbau (Grimma).
- Abroad: Hensel Electrotechnical Installation Systems Co. Limited (China, Qingdao), Hensel Electric India Pvt. Ltd. (India), Hensel Polska Sp.z oo (Poland), Hensel Elektro GmbH (Russia), Hensel sro (Czech Republic), Hensel Elektrik Turkey Ltd (Turkey), Hensel Hungária Villamossági Kft. (Hungary), Hensel Electric FZE (UAE)
literature
- Ulrich Kausch: China pioneers. Entrepreneurs report on their successes in the Middle Kingdom , Campus Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3593382652
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Hensel image brochure
- ↑ Gustav Hensel GmbH & Co. KG , Kompass.com, click on "üldinfo" left: Käive
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ Hensel founds a joint venture in Turkey , Elektropraktiker.de , February 1, 2008
- ^ German Companies Participating in the Forced / Slave Labor Compensation Fund , American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 8 ° 3 ′ 55.5 ″ E