Kaltenbach Group (mechanical engineering)
| Dieter Kaltenbach administrative company with limited liability
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1887 |
| Seat | Loerrach , Germany |
| management | Jochen Hartwig, Matthias Rummel, Wilhelm Schröder |
| Number of employees | 447 |
| sales | EUR 57.28 million |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.kaltenbach.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Kaltenbach is a German group of companies in the mechanical engineering sector with headquarters in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. The focus is on the manufacture of machines and systems for metalworking .
Companies
The Kaltenbach Group, managed by Kaltenbach GmbH & Co. KG in Lörrach, today consists of three production sites, ten sales and service subsidiaries (in the United Kingdom , France , the Netherlands , Austria , Switzerland , the Czech Republic , Singapore and the United Arab countries Emirates , Russia , China ) and has agencies in over 20 countries. The group employed around 520 people in 2009, 340 of them in Lörrach. In 2008, Kaltenbach achieved group sales of EUR 110 million.
Production facilities are located in:
- Lörrach , Germany (30,000 m²): circular saws, band saws, profile beam drilling machines, notching robots, punching / shearing systems, sheet metal processing centers
- Burnhaupt-le-Haut , France (7,500 m²): transport systems, measuring systems
- Hengelo , Netherlands (10,000 m²): shot blasting and preservation systems
There is a training cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Lörrach for the bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, business administration and applied computer science. In addition, Kaltenbach trains mechatronics technicians , industrial mechanics , electronics technicians for industrial engineering and industrial clerks.
history
Companies
The company was founded by Julius Kaltenbach in 1887 and initially manufactured machine tools , and from 1920 also agricultural machines . In 1926, when the company was handed over to the sons, the company was divided into the Hans Kaltenbach Maschinenfabrik (today's company) and Julius Kaltenbach (the younger) agricultural machinery factory. Dieter Kaltenbach joined the company in 1945 and, from 1953, focused on circular sawing machines for metalworking. In 1965, transport systems for sectional steel were added to the product range. In 1970 Kaltenbach invented the first transport system for steel construction and steel trading . CNC- controlled circular sawing machines have been manufactured since 1980 . The first production of transport systems was started in 1987 in a newly built plant in Burnhaupt-le-Haut, Alsace . Kaltenbach has also been manufacturing band saw machines for steel since 1994. In the same year, Kaltenbach took over the Gustav Wagner company and introduced sheet metal processing centers to the market the following year, in 1997 punching and shearing systems for flat and angle steel . The profile processing robots that have been produced since 2001 are an in-house development . In 2002, the takeover of the APS company in Wateringen near The Hague in the Netherlands added another production facility, which was expanded in the same year. In 2007 the production facilities in Lörrach and Burnhaupt were expanded. A year later, Kaltenbach founded a subsidiary for Middle East sales in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Another year later, the Kaltenbach Group acquired parts of the Dutch machine factory Gietart in Hengelo and created the new product areas blasting and preserving . In 2013 and 2015, subsidiaries were founded in Russia and China.
The company has been family-owned since it was founded. In the course of its history, the leadership was initially held by the founder Julius Kaltenbach (* 1858), followed in 1926 by Hans Kaltenbach (* 1897), in 1953 by Dieter Kaltenbach (1923–1996) and in 1996 by Valentin Kaltenbach (* 1968). In September 2015 the majority owner Valentin Kaltenbach took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board . In 2017, Zobel Values AG joined the company as the new main shareholder.
Kaltenbach Foundation
Dieter Kaltenbach founded the Dieter Kaltenbach Foundation in 1965, which aims to develop the personality of people of different ages through artistic design. In 1973 the “Center for Play and Design” was established for this purpose. In 1976 Dieter Kaltenbach founded the “Vocational Training Association Lörrach” (BBV), later the “Association for Youth and Professional Aid” (VJB). In 1979 he received the badge of honor of the state of Baden-Württemberg for this social commitment and in 1995 the "Lever Thank You" from the Lörrach Lever Association , which Hans Kaltenbach had already received in 1952. Ms. Christine Kaltenbach, widow of the foundation's founder, received the Markus Pflüger Prize 2012 from the city of Lörrach for the social commitment of the Kaltenbach family .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2016 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ^ Kaltenbach is reducing staff , Badische Zeitung , February 12, 2009
- ↑ Kaltenbach: Sheet metal working machine specialist inaugurates new technology center , MaschinenMarkt, May 14, 2009
- ↑ a b Roots and History / KALTENBACH. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Page of the Dieter Kaltenbach Foundation about the founder ( memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Badische Zeitung Markus-Pflüger-Prize for Christine Kaltenbach and family
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 26.1 ″ E