LAMILUX - Heinrich Strunz Group

LAMILUX - Heinrich Strunz Group
legal form	GmbH
founding	1909
Seat	Rehau , Bavaria
management	Heinrich Strunz, ; Dorothee Strunz
Number of employees	> 1150
sales	263 million euros
Branch	Plastic technology, daylight elements, building automation, photovoltaics
Website	www.lamilux.de

The LAMILUX - Heinrich Strunz Group is a family-run company based in the town of Rehau in the Hofer Land and another production site in Schifferstadt . LAMILUX is the registered trademark of the company and the trade name of the products. The company employs over 1150 people in the two divisions, fiber-reinforced plastics and daylight systems.

history

The company was founded in 1909 by the carpenter Heinrich Strunz in Rehau in Upper Franconia in the Hof district . After starting a sawmill in 1918, the company developed and manufactured ready-to-assemble wooden structures and registered numerous patents for them.

In 1941 Rudolf Strunz, son of the founder Heinrich Strunz, took over the management and in 1955 expanded the company to include the production of fiber-reinforced plastics. This is how the name Lamilux came about. "Lami" for the production step of lamination , "Lux" for the transparency of the material. Rudolf Strunz made Heinrich Strunz GmbH, in addition to wood construction, a company in the plastics industry that manufactures corrugated sheets from fiber-reinforced plastics and skylights in many variations. Lamilux has become a nationwide supplier of components to the construction industry. In the 1960s / 70s, plastic products experienced ever increasing sales across Germany and in neighboring countries. Lamilux skylight domes can be found on many sports and industrial halls, the transparent Lamilux corrugated sheets cover pergolas and terraces and serve as privacy screens on balconies.

In 1985, Heinrich Strunz became the managing partner of the family company. The former production of corrugated sheets was converted to the production of the composite material LAMILUXplan . In the daylight elements business area, the security technology division was established as a separate corporate division. Lamilux Sicherheitstechnik is responsible for the planning, development and assembly of the complex control technology for smoke and heat extraction systems and their integration into building management systems. In 1990 Lamilux began developing and constructing light strips in the daylight elements business. In the area of fiber-reinforced plastics, production will be completely converted to flat webs manufactured in a continuous process.

Dorothee and Heinrich Strunz have been running the company together since 1994. The range of daylight systems has meanwhile been expanded to include glass roof constructions and control technologies for building automation . Since 2000, after adding glass roof structures to the daylight system program, Lamilux has been a partner in building projects more and more often. The fiber-reinforced plastics from Lamilux are increasingly used today in the caravan, commercial vehicle, bus, construction and sports industries and are exported worldwide. In 2006–2008, Lamilux built a third production line for fiber-reinforced plastics for 10 million euros. For the first time, the company achieved a turnover of over 100 million euros. Lamilux is investing almost eight million euros in a new production hall for the manufacture of skylight domes.

In 2009 the company celebrates its 100th anniversary. Between 2011 and 2012 Lamilux is expanding its production capacity for glass roof structures and light strips for seven million euros. In 2011 Lamilux took over the company Pecolit in Schifferstadt with 60 employees, which was merged into the Lamilux Heinrich Strunz Group in 2013. At the same time, the company's corporate structure was also changed. The company Mirotec Glas- und Metallbau GmbH from Wettringen became part of the LAMILUX Heinrich Strunz Group in 2015. Thus, LAMILUX's business fields expanded to include metal construction, glass facades, steel construction, welded constructions and glazed attachment shafts. The roda Group has also been part of LAMILUX since 2018. The company has been a well-known European manufacturer and fitter of high-quality smoke and heat exhaust ventilation systems, industrial ventilation systems, daylight systems and translucent facade technology since 1986.

In 2017, the Heinrich Strunz Group generated sales of EUR 263 million.

Corporate management
1909–1941: Company founder Heinrich Strunz
1941–1985: Rudolf Strunz
since 1985: Heinrich Strunz
since 1994: Dorothee and Heinrich Strunz

Divisions

LAMILUX daylight elements

LAMILUX composites

Daylight systems

In the daylight systems division, LAMILUX produces daylight systems made of plastic, glass and aluminum. The company also develops control and automation technology. Under the name LAMILUX CI-Systems , the company sells skylight domes, light strips and glass roof constructions, which direct natural light into the interior of buildings. With the energy management system CI-Energy, the family company offers the possibility of controlling the ventilation of a building via the flat roof daylight elements in addition to the incidence of daylight. The daylight elements also serve as smoke and heat extraction systems . With the product group CI-Solar, the Upper Franconian company offers photovoltaic systems.

Composites

The LAMILUX Composites GmbH division produces sheets and rolls from fiber-reinforced plastics using the large-scale flat web process. The fields of application are lightweight construction and energy-efficient mobility, transport and logistics, the food industry, modern facade design, mobile room systems and temporary construction.

LAMILUX has been producing fiber-reinforced plastics for almost 60 years and is the industry leader in Europe. LAMILUX supplies customers from the fields of vehicle, mobile home and caravan construction, cold store and cold room construction, the sports and construction industry and other industrial segments.

Well-known construction projects in which LAMILUX was involved

BMW four-cylinder, Munich
Grimm Center of the Humboldt University, Berlin
A 380 shipyard, Frankfurt am Main
Rheingalerie, Ludwigshafen
Thier Gallery, Dortmund
Forum Middle Rhine, Koblenz
New gallery, Kassel
New trade fair, Hamburg
Munich Airport

Awards

Mittelstands-Löwe 2003 in the category "Human"
Middle class lion 2006
Innovation Prize of the Reinforced Plastics Industry Association (AVK)
Bavaria's Best 50 2011
School Management Company Award 2012
AVK Innovation Award 2012 "Particularly Attractive Employer"
Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award 2012
Bavaria's Best 50 2013
Top innovator 2014
Entrepreneur of the year 2014
German Education Award 2016
red dot Award - Product Design 2016
IHK education award 2018
My good example in 2019

Social Commitment

Education for EXCELLENCE®

Sustainable promotion of the personal development of LAMILUX trainees is the aim of the EDUCATION for EXCELLENCE® training concept, which was developed by LAMILUX. Here, the trainees in the second year of their apprenticeship take on a weekly social commitment and are released during working hours. In return, they also receive access to a monthly training and further education program that allows insights into the most diverse areas of social life. The aim of the whole is to sustainably promote the personal and social key qualifications of the trainees and their personal development.

CI-Classics

LAMILUX CI-Classics were launched in 2009 by the LAMILUX Heinrich Strunz Group on the occasion of the company's 100th anniversary. The event, which now takes place annually, is organized by the outdoor department of VfB Rehau, the LAMILUX Heinrich Strunz Group and the city of Rehau. Over the years, the CI-Classics have established themselves as one of the largest popular sports experiences with around 1000 participants in Upper Franconia.