IFA Group

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IFA Group
legal form GmbH
Seat Haldensleben, Germany
management
  • Arno Haselhorst, CEO
Number of employees 1,762 (2015 in Saxony-Anhalt)
sales 505.7 million euros (2015)
Branch Drive technology , automotive supplier
Website ifa-group.com

The IFA Group, formerly IFA Rotorion - Holding GmbH, is a Haldensleber producer of joints and shafts for the international vehicle industry. It is the largest manufacturer of cardan shafts in Europe and the USA with an annual production volume of more than two million units. After the takeover of Rotorion GmbH from Friedrichshafen in 2009, the group's turnover in 2010 was around 270 million euros. Since then, the group of companies has increased its sales by around 87 percent to 505.7 million euros up to and including 2015.

history

In 1959, the VEB IFA propeller shaft plant in Haldensleben , called "IFA propeller shaft", was founded. The company was a supplier of the GDR vehicle and mechanical engineering and belonged to the VEB IFA Combine Commercial Vehicles Ludwigsfelde , which in turn was part of the GDR Vehicle Construction Industry Association (IFA).

Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , the plant with up to 1000 employees produced cardan shafts for the Progress ZT 300 tractor and the W 50 truck . In 1990 it was taken over by the Treuhandanstalt , which sold it to the entrepreneur Heinrich von Nathusius and Genes GmbH Venture Services from Cologne in 1992 as part of a management buy- in. With the work, the rights to the IFA brand were also transferred. After a large part of the jobs had to be cut in the loss-making operation (with the discontinuation of IFA truck production, the most important previous customer was lost), the company, now trading as IFA-Maschinenbau GmbH , was able to become a supplier to Volkswagen in the mid-1990s establish. The gene Venture sold its shares in the 2,001th In the following years, other automobile manufacturers as well as truck and agricultural machinery manufacturers were continuously won as customers.

With the construction of a sideshaft plant in Gardelegen in 2002, the IFA Group's sales were doubled. In 2006, a cooperation was agreed with the Japanese NTN Corporation in the propshafts division. A strategic realignment was carried out with the aim of achieving technological market leadership in lightweight construction in the drive train. In 2009, the propeller shaft division of the drive system and energy systems specialist Tognum AG , trading under the name Rotorion, was taken over.

As a result of the incorporation of Rotorion into the IFA Group, production equipment and around 450 jobs will be relocated from Friedrichshafen to Haldensleben from late summer 2010. IFA-Rotorion provides around 1,000 jobs in Germany, and around 100 more people are employed in a plant in the USA.

In December 2010 the company was awarded the company prize by the Magdeburg Industry Club.

The IFA Rotorion headquarters in Haldensleben in 2009

The group today

The IFA Group consisted of the following companies and holdings in summer 2015:

  • IFA Rotorion - Holding GmbH
  • IFA Rotorion - Powertrain GmbH
  • IFA Rotorion - North America LLC ( Charleston, USA )
  • IFA - Kardan GmbH
  • IFA - Technologies GmbH
  • IFA Rotorion - Powertrain (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
  • IFC-Composite GmbH

Products

The group's product range includes cardan shafts (propshafts in one and two-part designs for front, rear and all-wheel drive cars as well as light commercial vehicles, designed for various speed ranges , torque ranges and applications), universal joint shafts for industrial applications in general machine and vehicle construction, components, fiber composites (with carbon and glass - fiber reinforced: CRP ( "carbon") , fiberglass ) for applications in the automotive industry as well as CRP and GRP pipes for drive and propeller shafts.

Development partner

The IFA Group works on basic research and the further development of products as well as the optimization of production processes with research departments at the University of Magdeburg , the Magdeburg Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation , the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Technical University of Dresden , the Braunschweig branch of the German Aerospace Center and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen .

Individual evidence

  1. a b according to Saxony-Anhalt Report of the Nord LB v. November 17, 2016, p. 12ff Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.investieren-in-sachsen-anhalt.de
  2. according to Article Ifa Haldensleben provides a worldwide drive in the Lausitzer Rundschau Online from June 7, 2006
  3. according to Portrait of Heinrich von Nathusius, Managing Director, IFA-Maschinenbau GmbH ( Memento from July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) for the future conference on mechanical engineering 2009
  4. according to Information at Genes-ventures.de ( Memento from December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  5. a b according to Article Optimistic lightweight. An auto supplier from Saxony-Anhalt wants to defy the crisis at Deutschlandfunk Online on January 9, 2009
  6. NTN Corporation is a major Asian automotive supplier, see company website
  7. according to a report on the factory tour of the BMB Steering Innovation in Schönebeck ( memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) of the Magdeburg Industrial Club on June 6, 2009
  8. according to Information IFA Rotorion: New production hall is being built ( memento from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on the weblog of the city of Haldensleben from January 28, 2010
  9. according to Article Tognum. Sale of Rotorion sealed by Manager Magazin Online on October 9, 2009
  10. according to Article Landkreis Börde: Auto supplier builds new workshop at Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Online from November 5, 2009
  11. according to Jutta Katsaitis-Schmitz, Business Club honors Heinrich von Nathusius on AZ-Web.de on December 9, 2010
  12. Closely connected, but not integrated into the IFA-Group, is the multiple award-winning (according to Information Six Entrepreneurs with IQ Innovationspreis Mitteldeutschland ( Memento from September 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at Pipeline-anlagenbau.de from June 16, 2006 ) IFC Composite in Haldensleben. It manufactures glass fiber reinforced leaf springs for truck vehicle construction. The company received the Hugo Junkers Innovation Award in 2009 for the new development - lighter than conventional steel leaf springs
  13. according to Press release from October 21, 2014, IFA Rotorion opens new plant in Shanghai [1]
  14. according to Press release of April 17, 2015, IFC Composite back in IFA Rotorion Group Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifc-composite.de

Web links

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