Junghans Microtec

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Junghans Microtec GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1984
Seat	Dunningen , Germany
management	Frank Kienzler, Jürgen Kohlenisen, Pierre Bauche
Number of employees	almost 500 (2009)
sales	EUR 90 million (2009)
Branch	Weapons manufacturer
Website	www.junghans-microtec.de

The Junghans Microtec GmbH , based in Dunninger district Seedorf in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg is a world leader in the manufacture of detonators and ignition systems.

The company produces detonators and ignition systems for all three branches of the armed forces (army, air force and navy). These include, for example, fuses for artillery , mortars , medium calibers , tanks , anti-tank systems , guided missiles and safety devices. The program includes a. Detonators for artillery guns of caliber 76 mm to 203 mm. For these weapons, the company impact fuse , time fuse , double detonators and detonator multifunction ago. She uses z. For example, in the Wiesel II light tank mortar, the Junghans MFZ / M detonator with 120 mm projectiles is the standard armament.

The Seedorf company, which is 55 percent owned by the Nuremberg-based Diehl Group and 45 percent by the French Thales Group , employed almost 500 permanent employees plus around 100 temporary workers in 2009, and sales rose to 90 million euros in 2009, compared to 81 million in the previous year.

In December 2010, Wikileaks published a secret US counter-terrorism list in which Junghans Microtec is listed as an "object of national security interest outside the United States of America".

history

The company is an offshoot of the watch manufacturer Junghans, which was founded in Schramberg in 1861 . In 1984 Junghans was divided into the watch and detonator divisions. The detonator division became legally independent in 1999 under Junghans Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG , which was renamed Junghans Microtec GmbH in 2007 .

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1. ↑ Imprint
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2010 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. FUZE NEWS 12/2008  
3. ↑ NRWZ online: Visit to the bomb detonator manufacturer Junghans Microtec (September 21, 2009) ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Valentina Pop: UK condemns leak of 'critical infrastructure' list. In: euobserver.com. December 6, 2010, accessed July 22, 2016 .