KME SE
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| legal form | Societas Europaea (SE) |
| Seat | Osnabrück , Germany |
| Number of employees | approx. 4,500 |
| Website | www.kme.com |
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The KME SE is a manufacturer of products made from copper and copper alloys. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intek Group SpA , based in Milan. Many other subsidiaries are held through the subsidiary KME Germany GmbH & Co. KG .
The company has 8 production sites in the most important countries and markets in Europe as well as in China. The product portfolio includes products and special solutions for the individual requirements of different industrial sectors. KME produces for national and international markets at production and sales locations in Germany, France, Italy, China and the USA. In 2018, sales were 338,000 t of copper and copper alloys.
history
Today's KME Germany GmbH & Co. KG (until 2007: KM Europa Metal AG ) was founded in Osnabrück in 1873 as the Witte und Kämper wire and pen factory and converted into Osnabrücker Kupfer- und Drahtwerke AG (OKD) in 1890 . Since 1919 majority owned by the Gutehoffnungshütte group, OKD was merged with another GHH subsidiary, Hackethal-Draht-Gesellschaft Hannover, to form Kabel- und Metallwerke Gutehoffnungshütte AG (kabelmetal) in 1966 . In 1981/82 part of the kabelmetal production in Hanover was sold to the French CDL (Cables de Lyon), and in 1990 the remaining locations were finally also transferred to the Italian Società Metallurgica Italiana (SMI).
The KME received its current structure in 1995 when the SMI merged its holdings in several traditional copper companies in Italy, France and Germany. Since 2007, all subsidiaries have operated under the uniform corporate brand KME.
The business areas of KME are in the most important countries of the EU , which is why the company was converted from a German stock corporation into a European company on February 22, 2019 .
In 2019 the Mansfeld copper and brass works in Hettstedt was taken over and at the same time the subsidiary KME Brass Germany GmbH (Berlin) was sold to the Chinese company Zhejiang Hailiang and FRICKE GmbH (Greven) was closed on June 30, 2019.
Corporate structure
The company's headquarters are in Osnabrück.
KME is divided into two corporate divisions - the Copper Division (rolled products) and the Special Division (special products) - and has a worldwide sales network.
A joint venture has existed with the KMD Group since 2014.
literature
- KM Europa Metal AG (Ed.): Werkzeiten Menschenbilder - 1873–1998 - 125 years of the Osnabrück site , 1998
Web links
- KME website
- Website with current information on KME from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
- Early documents and newspaper articles on KME SE in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c profile , accessed on January 8, 2020
- ↑ http://www.kme.com/de/die_operativen_verbindungen_des_konzerns
- ↑ Johannes Bähr u. a .: The MAN. A German Industrial History , Munich 2008, p. 400.
- ↑ http://www.kme.com/de/geschichte_der_kme_germany
- ↑ http://www.kme.com/de/kme_auf_einen_blick
- ↑ a b Interim Annual Report 2019 of Intek Group SpA , accessed on January 8, 2020
- ↑ https://m.pplaw.com/de/artikel/transaktion/pp-beraet-kme-bei-joint-venture-mit-golden-dragon-hongkong
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '54.7 " N , 8 ° 3' 0.9" E