Kalenborn Kalprotect

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Kalenborn Kalprotect

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1921
Seat Vettelschoss , Germany
management Conrad Mauritz
Markus Buscher
Branch Manufacture of materials
Website www.kalenborn.de

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Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG, aerial photo (2016)

The Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG is one of the world's leading companies in the field of universal wear protection. The company is based in Vettelschoss , Germany , about 30 km south of Bonn . The company has branches and agencies in over 50 countries. Sales in the USA and Canada are organized through the subsidiary Abresist Corporation in Urbana (Indiana) .

history

Because of the abundance of basalt in the Vorderen Westerwald , the French Compagnie Générale du Basalte approached Basalt AG in Linz on the Rhine in 1921 with the suggestion of building a joint plant for the production of fused basalt . On September 7, 1921, Schmelzbasalt AG was founded in Linz with a share capital of 15 million marks. The French shareholders contributed their patents to the company, Basalt AG the capital and the factory premises. In the spring of 1922, the preparatory work began for the plant in the Kalenborn district in the municipality of Vettelschoss, which was built according to plans by the architects Mattar & Scheler . The plant was conveniently located on the Linz (Rhine) - Flammersfeld railway line, which had existed since 1912 , and the Basalt AG quarries were not far away. In 1924, production began with flooring panels and insulators , and in 1928 there were 125 employees in the Kalenborn plant. Due to sales difficulties due to the ongoing economic crisis , production was shut down again on December 31, 1929.

In 1935, a company called Mezöly, a company for wear protection KG, was founded in Düsseldorf ; it leased the entire plant from Schmelzbasalt AG and resumed operations there in 1936. Due to internal disputes in the management, two managing directors left in 1937 and the company was renamed to Schmelzbasaltwerk Kalenborn - Dr.-Ing. Mauritz KG and the headquarters relocated to Kalenborn. Mauritz bought the plant from Basalt AG in 1942 . In 1942 a second smelting furnace was put into operation, and in 1944 the production of fused basalt - which often replaced iron and steel in industry during World War II - reached its peak in the Kalenborn plant. With the advance of the Americans across the Rhine , work came to a standstill in 1945, and production could be resumed in 1946. Statistics show that in 1955 over 7,000 tons of cast basal products were produced.

Until around 1960, the raw basalt was transported from the nearby basalt quarries to the plant using a works railway system from Basalt AG ; the finished products were transported by the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Bahn AG until 1995 .

After increasingly new, more resilient materials and combinations of mineral, metallic and elastomeric materials were produced in addition to cast basalt, the company was renamed Kalenborn Kalprotect - Dr. Mauritz GmbH & Co. KG . In 2000, the production of fused basalt was stopped at the Kalenborn location and relocated to Polish subsidiaries. In July 2007 the company's name was again changed to Kalenborn Kalprotect GmbH & Co. KG .

Products

The product range includes materials for mineral and ceramic wear protection, metallic wear protection as well as materials made of rubber and plastic.

  • Cast basalt , a mineral wear protection based on basalt for system components
  • Zirconium corundum , a cast material made of aluminum and zirconium oxide for system components
  • Oxide ceramics for system parts with extreme wear and temperature loads
  • Silicon carbide ceramics for system parts in which, in addition to extreme wear and tear, there are also high temperatures or temperature changes
  • Hard ceramics for system parts with moderate wear and tear
  • Metallic wear protection in various qualities that can withstand not only abrasion but also high impact wear loads
  • Cement-bound lining compounds for the seamless protection of system parts in which wear or high temperature loads occur
  • Sliding plastic with extremely good, material-specific sliding properties
  • In addition, sliding steel has good wear resistance when it comes to abrasive material

The industrial sectors affected are in particular the cement industry , coal-fired power plants , the iron and steel industry and other plants in the basic industry.

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Mohr: Kretzhaus - Reifstein - Vettelschoss . Bad Tölz 2006, pp. 155-169.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Middle Rhine economy
    through the ages ... the Linzer Basalt AG built the first and only factory for the production of cast basalt in the world in 1922/24. Under the new company Schmelzbasalt Kalenborn ...
  2. ^ A b Hans Heinrich Mohr: Kretzhaus - Reifstein - Vettelschoss . Bad Toelz 2006.

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