Kirov Ardelt
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1880 |
| Seat | Leipzig , Germany |
| management | Markus Radmacher |
| Number of employees | 205 (2015/2016) |
| sales | 146 million euros (2015/2016) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | kirow.de |
The Kirow Ardelt GmbH is an engineering company in Leipzig . It is the world market leader for railway cranes and produces transport systems for shipyards and for metallurgy . Kirow Leipzig, together with the Eberswalde branch and Kocks Krane GmbH in Bremen, is part of Kranunion GmbH in Leipzig, Saxony (formerly Kirow Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Holding KG, or Kirow Group for short).
overview
Kirow Ardelt GmbH is divided into the Leipzig (Kirow) facility and the branches in Eberswalde and Ulm .
As of June 30, 2016, the workforce comprised 205 employees (including one member of the Board of Management), of which 19 were employed in the Ulm branch. The employees generated a turnover of 146 million euros in 2015/2016.
Kirow Leipzig is the world market leader for railway cranes and produces transport systems for shipyards and for metallurgy . Ardelt Eberswalde is the world market leader for double-link cranes and produces, among other things, balancer cranes, container cranes, slewing cranes, portal cranes and loading bridges. Hermann Simon mentions Kirow in his book of the same name as an example of a " hidden champion ".
Kirow Ardelt GmbH is involved in the following companies. The percentages in brackets indicate the stake that Kirow Ardelt GmbH owned in these companies on December 31, 2015.
- Kocks Krane GmbH, Bremen (100%)
- Mitteldeutsche Spezialstahlbau GmbH, Leipzig (100%)
- DESEC Oy, Parkano Finland (100%)
- Concentra Procurement GmbH, Berlin (100%)
- Concentra Administration GmbH, Leipzig (100%)
history
In 1880 the engineer Karl Richard Liebig founded the company Technisches Bureau und Maschinenbauanstalt in Leipzig to manufacture manual lifts and crane equipment. After Gustav Unruh, an expert in continuous conveyors, joined the machine factory, it was renamed Unruh & Liebig AG in 1887 . From 1899 the company was organized as a stock corporation and part of the Peniger Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei AG . On December 6, 1937, the factory was named Peniger Maschinenfabrik and Unruh & Liebig AG .
After the end of the Second World War , the company was expropriated and nationalized . On August 1, 1946, the company was renamed to Maschinenfabrik Unruh & Liebig . As a Soviet joint-stock company, it was under direct control by the Soviet Union until 1954 . In 1952 the company was named after the confidante Josef Stalin and party secretary of Leningrad Sergei Mironowitsch Kirov . In 1954 it was returned to the GDR government. It was continued as a state-owned company VEB Schwermaschinenbau SM Kirow Leipzig and from 1958 part of the industry association TAKRAF .
After the turnaround and privatization of the GDR economy , the company was renamed Kirow Leipzig AG in 1995 and is now part of the Oberhausen family-owned Koehne group. In 1997, Kirow took over Vulkan Kocks GmbH and its subsidiary Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH . The company was named Kirow Leipzig KE Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH . Kirow Leipzig and Kranbau Eberswalde both belonged to the TAKRAF combine until 1990 and are now again united under one roof together with Kocks Krane in Bremen in the Kranunion (formerly Kirow Group).
On July 6, 2006, KIROW Leipzig KE Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH took over 51 percent of the shares in LEOLINER Fahrzeug-Bau Leipzig GmbH (since October 1, 2007 HeiterBlick GmbH), a manufacturer of trams based in Leipzig . HeiterBlick GmbH is operated as a joint venture with Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) . On December 23, 2010, the privatization was completed when Kirow took over all shares in the company.
In 2007, Ardelt Russia ooo was founded in Saint Petersburg , a limited liability company under Russian law, in which Kirow Leipzig held all shares. At the Annual General Meeting on June 16, 2008, it was decided to change the name of Kirow Leipzig KE Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH to Kirow Ardelt GmbH . The entry in the commercial register took place on July 2, 2008.
Exterior view of the "SM Kirow" works, Plant I (1953)
View of the gate of the "SMKirow" works, Plant II (1953)
Exterior view of the administration building (1953)
Administration building (2010)
Restaurant Niemeyerkugel on the company premises (2020)
Products (selection)
- Series 732 emergency crane (DB network)
- Series 733 emergency crane
- Track construction crane KRC 810 T
- In 2016, Kirow presented the KRC 1200 T Multi Tasker, a heavy-duty hoist with a double slewing ring.
- The transport and provision of points (elements) can be carried out by the Switch Tilter switch transport trolley , which accommodates the wide points deep and diagonally in the loading dimension.
literature
- Armin Müller: Institutional breaks and personal bridges. Plant manager in state-owned companies of the GDR in the Ulbricht era , Cologne a. Weimar 2006. [from 1945 to 1970]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ kranunion.de: Imprint ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d 2015/2016 annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
- ↑ Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 . P. 17.
- ^ State Archives Leipzig: Unruh & Liebig AG, Maschinenfabrik, Leipzig ( Memento from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ HeiterBlick GmbH: History and Development ( Memento from November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ LVZ Online: Privatization ended ( memento from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), from December 23, 2010.
- ↑ Commercial register: Commercial Register.de
- ↑ Kirov. Multi tasker. Accident service. youtube.com, Kranunion, published August 11, 2016, accessed May 31, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 18 ′ 44 ″ E