L. & C. Steinmüller
| L. & C. Steinmüller | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1855 |
| resolution | 2002 |
| Reason for dissolution | Result of the bankruptcy of the mother Deutsche Babcock |
| Seat | Gummersbach |
| Branch | Energy Technology |
The L. & C. Steinmüller GmbH (LCS) was a major international corporation of the boiler - and plant engineering / environmental engineering, headquartered in Gummersbach . In its heyday in the 1970s, LCS, including its affiliates and subsidiaries in Finland and South Africa, employed over 5,000 people. In South Africa, the majority of the steam boilers for power plants with an output of 500 or 600 MW were manufactured by LCS.
1998/99 LCS was at Babcock Borsig sold and went with this in 2002 in the bankruptcy . In the course of the bankruptcy, the LCS company premises in the city center of Gummersbach were acquired by the city of Gummersbach for four million euros.
history
The L. & C. Steinmüller (LCS) company has its roots in the paper factory for the production of wax and glass paper founded in 1855 by the music teacher Peter Wilhelm Eberhard Steinmüller together with his three sons Wilhelm, Lebrecht and Carl in Gummersbach. While the eldest son, Wilhelm, went into business for himself as a textile merchant, Lebrecht and Carl took over the company in 1864 and named it L&C Steinmüller paper mill.
In the 1870s, a traction engine for road transport was purchased in England to meet the transport requirements of increasing production. The locomobile was based on the functional principle of the shell boiler . Therefore, the water level could not be kept constant during operation in the hilly area around Gummersbach, which led to numerous failures. The solution to these problems and Lebrecht's promise to his father-in-law, the print shop owner Friedrich Luyken, to build him a steam boiler for his printing shop, led to the production of steam generators based on the functional principle of water tube boilers , which were added to the production program in 1873. Since then, the company has been known as the L&C Steinmüller (LCS) paper, boiler and iron foundry . In 1874 the first Steinmüller steam generator was put into operation in the Friedrich Luyken printing works . It supplied steam for the steam engine there until 1883 and has been exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1924 . In 1902 Steinmüller was the first German boiler factory to build an economiser . In 1930 the first Steinmüller boiler with pulverized coal firing was built and in 1953 the first boiler with a stepped melting chamber. In 1954 the first Steinmüller once-through boiler was built, which at the time was the largest in the world. In 1968 the largest melting kettle at that time was built with a capacity of 1000 t / h.
The number of employees rose from 650 in 1909 to 2,386 in 1937. In the mid-1970s, the workforce had grown to 5,000 employees worldwide. Paper production was given up in 1971. LCS remained an independent, family-owned company until 1990 and was then sold to the construction company Philipp Holzmann (74.9%) and VEW in Dortmund (25.1%).
In 1999 Philipp Holzmann AG went bankrupt and its shares were taken over by Deutsche Babcock AG (later Babcock Borsig AG ) for DM 340 million . After that, the production in Gummersbach was closed and the energy technology relocated to Oberhausen . The environmental technology was initially continued under the name Babcock-Steinmüller Environment and from November 1999 under the name Babcock Borsig Power Environment in Gummersbach. This was followed by the acquisition of Noell KRC Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH in September 2000 and the acquisition of SWR Steinmüller Rompf Wassertechnik GmbH in June 2002.
As part of Babcock Borsig AG , LCS went bankrupt with them in 2002.
After bankruptcy
Babcock Borsig, Steinmüller Servicleistungs GmbH in Gummersbach and Steinmüller Instandsetzung Kraftwerke (a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock Borsig based in the Jänschwalde power station ), two companies that have their roots in L. & C. Steinmüller emerged from Babcock Borsig .
In addition, the service area of the South African LCS subsidiary was taken over by Babcock Borsig Service (at the time a subsidiary of the financial investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG ). It initially traded under the name Steinmüller Engineering Services and thus continued the traditional boiler construction activities of LCS in South Africa. In April 2005, Babcock Borsig Service was taken over by Bilfinger and assigned to Bilfinger Power Systems .
The environmental technology at the Gummersbach location was continued and completely taken over by Fisia Italimplanti SpA in April 2003 . It then traded under the name Fisia Babcock Environment . After Fisia Babcock Environment became part of the Japanese company NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING Co., Ltd. in May 2014. (NSENGI), the name was again changed to Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH (SBENG) as part of this acquisition .
After the purchase in July 2002 by the city of Gummersbach, the site is being developed as part of the Regional 2010 structural program. A large part of the factory halls on the Steinmüller site were demolished. These areas and preserved halls were temporarily an industrial wasteland . On November 2, 2007, the Gummersbach campus of the Technical University of Cologne was opened. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Ferchau company headquarters took place on June 14, 2008 . Furthermore, with the Schwalbe-Arena, a sports and event hall with approx. 4000 seats was built, primarily for VfL Gummersbach . A former production hall was converted and opened in 2013 as the event center Hall 32 . In September 2015, the new Forum shopping center was opened. The new SEVEN Gummersbach cinema was last opened in mid-2019.
Important boiler structures of the LCS
- Gustav Knepper power plant (hard coal), Germany, 300 MW, 1969
- Niederaussem (brown coal), Germany, 600 MW, 1972
- Scholven (oil), Germany, 714 MW, 1972
- Weiher III (hard coal), Germany, 707 MW, 1974
- Mehrum (hard coal), Germany, 700 MW, 1979
- Grootvlei Power Station, South Africa, 1 × 200 MW, 1973
- Hendrina Power Station, South Africa, 5 × 200 MW, 1970–1976
- Kriel Power Station , South Africa, 6 × 500 MW, 1979
- Duvha Power Station , South Africa, 6 × 600 MW, 1975–1984
- Tutuka Power Station , South Africa, 6 × 609 MW, 1985-1990
- Majuba Power Station, South Africa, 3 × 665 MW, 3 × 716 MW, 1983-2001
Steinmüller paperbacks
The Steinmüller paperbacks, which were published by Vulkan-Verlag, were popular in the industry. They are small, handy paperback books in which the specialist knowledge is concentrated. A total of four paperbacks were published.
- Steinmüller Taschenbuch Kraftwerks- und Anlagenbau von Obering. WE fox
- Steinmüller pocket book steam generator technology by Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Witte
- Steinmüller Pocket Book Pipeline Technology by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Schmidt
- Steinmüller Taschenbuch Wasserchemie by Dr. rer. nat. Günter Wieland, J. Frenzel
Previous editions without publisher information:
- Steinmüller Kesseltechnisches Taschenbuch expanded 22nd episode from 1963
- Steinmüller Wasserchemisches Taschenbuch 2nd improved edition from 1951; Dr. A. People
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- ↑ Wasserrohrkessel L. & C. Steinmüller, Gummersbach, 1874 , at www.deutsches-museum.de
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: press archive 2003 )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: http://www.babcock-borsig-service.de/index.php?id=321 )
- ↑ http://www.fisia-babcock.com/newssys.php?id=9&cat=12&newsstart=0 ( Memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The milestones in our company history , at www.steinmueller-babcock.com, accessed on September 4, 2018
- ^ The Grootvlei power plant on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
- ^ The Hendrina power plant on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
- ^ The Kriel power plant on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
- ^ The Duvha power plant on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
- ^ The Tutuka power station on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
- ↑ The Majuba power plant on the ESCOM South African Power Utility website
Web links
- Steinmüller - an era
- Internet presence of Steinmüller Babcock (Gummersbach)
- Internet presence of Steinmüller Engineering (Gummersbach)
- Internet presence of Steinmüller Servicleistungs GmbH (Gummersbach)
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 26 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 50 ″ E