Kömmerling (company)
| Kömmerling Chemical Factory GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1897 |
| Seat | Pirmasens , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 331 employees ( Sep. 30, 2014 ) |
| sales | 135.8 million EUR ( 2014 ) |
| Branch | Adhesive technology |
| Website | www.koe-chemie.de |
Kömmerling refers to two different companies at the same location in Pirmasens . The nucleus was the Kömmerling OHG, founded in 1897 , which was later divided into Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH and Gebrüder Kömmerling GmbH (today: as profine GmbH Kömmerling Kunststoffe part of profine GmbH )
Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH has belonged to ADCO Global Inc. since 2000 and is a manufacturer of adhesives and sealants .
history
In 1897 Karl Kömmerling founded the trading company Kömmerling OHG. The company supplied the then steadily growing shoe industry with adhesives (such as wheat glue, lasting glue and celluloid glue). Just a few years later, Kömmerling began developing and manufacturing adhesives independently. In 1949, the company manufactured the world's first contact adhesive based on synthetic rubber. In 1952, Kunststoffwerke Gebrüder Kömmerling GmbH was founded. Plastics became more and more important - not only in the shoe sector.
After the Second World War , Kömmerling began to export its adhesives and plastics and to set up foreign locations. In 1954, plants were built in France and Brazil . In the same year, Kömmerling started the establishment of the “Technical Adhesives” division and the development of the “Körapox” product family. The first extruded plastic parts were produced three years later . In 1967 the production of plastic window profiles began. In 1969, Kömmerling was the first company to introduce a primerless sealant system based on polysulphide for the insulating glass edge seal.
From the 1980s onwards, further plants were built: 1986 in France, 1989 in Italy , 1992 in Spain , 1995 in the People's Republic of China and finally in 1996 in the USA . In 1995, Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH was one of the first manufacturers of adhesive and sealant systems to be certified according to the internationally recognized quality management standard ISO 9001 .
At the end of 1999, the entire company filed for bankruptcy. Part of the company, Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH, became part of ADCO Global Inc. ( Raleigh (North Carolina) ) in 2000 ; at the same time, the European headquarters of ADCO Global was relocated to the Pirmasens location. ADCO now had seven locations in America, Europe and Asia with more than 700 employees worldwide. The other part - the Gebrüder Kömmerling GmbH - was integrated into HT Troplast AG (from 2003 Profine ).
In 2003, Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH took over the production area for insulating glass sealants from Chemetall in Langelsheim and has since had two production sites in Germany.
In June 2013, the parent company ADCO Global announced that the owner of ADCO - the Aurora Capital Group - had sold ADCO and thus also Kömmerling to the investment company Arsenal Capital Partners ( New York ). On June 19, 2015, the investment company American Securities ( New York City ) acquired ADCO Global Inc. from Arsenal Capital Partners.
Since the end of October 2017, Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik GmbH has been part of the US adhesives group HB Fuller.
facts and figures
In 2011, Kömmerling employed an average of 330 people at the Pirmasens site. Kömmerling produces around 60,000 tons of adhesives annually at its two German locations and in 2011 had annual sales of € 135.5 million. The profit of € 8.1 million was transferred to the parent company.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kömmerling chemical factory: Imprint
- ↑ a b c Electronic Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Maximilian Zwick, Franz Pioth: Kömmerling in new hands. Announcement in the Palatinate Merkur from April 26, 2012.
- ↑ Sale under one roof. Kömmerling to HT Troplast. Report in BM online from October 1, 2000.
- ^ Olaf Lismann, Mechthild Treusch: Kömmerling Chemie with a new investor. Announcement in the Rheinpfalz of June 22, 2013, p. 5.
- ↑ Arsenal Capital Partners agrees to acquire ADCO Global, Inc. from Aurora Capital Group (PDF; 24 kB). ADCO Global press release of June 21, 2013.
- ^ Arsenal Capital Partners Completes Sale of Royal Adhesives And Sealants to American Securities. ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 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. Arsenal Capital Partners press release, June 19, 2015.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 39 ″ E