Lafarge Perlmooser
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The Lafarge Perlmooser Holding AG is Austria's largest cement producer part of the French group Lafarge .
The headquarters of Lafarge Perlmooser Holding AG are in Vienna . Production plants are located in Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge in Lower Austria and Retznei in Styria. Around 1.6 million tons of cement are produced annually in the two plants.
Holding company
The Lafarge Cement Technical Center Vienna GmbH is part of the Division of cement .
This also includes Lafarge Beton GmbH as a 100% subsidiary. Their locations with gravel pits and ready-mixed concrete plants are:
- Vienna: Gravel handling in Oberlaa, Liesing and also with gravel handling at the Danube port in Albern
- Lower Austria: Langenzersdorf and only gravel handling in Wöllersdorf
- Upper Austria: Wels , Linz and Oberweis
- Burgenland: with Parndorf gravel pit
Contracts have already been signed for the start-up of Lafarge Cement CE Holding, based in Austria, in 2011 . Lafarge has a 70% share in this company and the Austrian company Strabag 30%. To this end, Lafarge brings its Austrian plants in Mannersdorf (Lower Austria) and Retznei (Styria), the Czech plant in Čížkovice and Trbovlje in Slovenia, and Strabag its plant under construction in Pécs, Hungary .
Lafarge Perlmooser is a member of the Association of the Austrian Cement Industry and thus also of the associated research institute.
history
Perlmooser AG was founded in 1872 as an AG of k. k. priv. hydr. Lime and Portland cement factory in Perlmoos founded in Kirchbichl in Tyrol.
Is preceded by the old grain mill of rats Berger Alois force, there's Roman cement , fired from his in Haring broken marl , was grinding.
Shortly afterwards, however, Kraft discovered a hydraulic cement that was very similar to Portland cement , which he also patented . With this patent, Kraft only received privileged approval for the manufacture of hydraulic cement. He tried the project in 1860 with Angelo Saullich from Salzburg , who was financially stronger, and bought another cement mill in Kirchbichl. However, the two separated again two years later and Saullich became the sole owner of Angelo Saullich's first potlandcement factory in Perlmoos near Kufstein .
The now sole owner of the cement works won a medal for his invention at the industrial exhibition in London in the same year. He still built stoves in Perlmoos and took over some from other owners. He built a new mill for Portland cement and hydraulic lime directly at the Kirchbichl train station. In order to be able to expand financially more easily, Saullich converted his company into a stock corporation in 1872, in which, for example, Oberbank or Bankhaus Schoeller took part.
By 1913, Saullich expanded the company and also steadily acquired works from competitors, but always remained at the same production level. A cement factory from Hallein was added, as did Franz Kink , the actual founder of the cement industry in Austria. By 1883, some ovens were added, but also quarries in the area. The number of employees increased from around 170 in the founding year to almost 700 in the mid-1870s. During the second wave of expansion, which began in the mid-1890s, expansion was continued in the wider area around Vienna, such as smaller ones in Scheibmühl near Traisen , Lilienfeld or Oberpiesting . The company grew strongly in 1905 with the Kaltenleutgabe lime and cement factory , which owned factories in Kaltenleuthaben , Achau and Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge - especially since Kaltenleutgabe also had a rail connection with the Kaltenleutgabe wing railway . Since 1895 a work by Adolph Freiherr von Pittel in Taßhof has been part of this work .
The economic center of the Perlmooser AG came from Tyrol to Lower Austria. In total, the plant produced around 25% of the total cement production in Cisleithanien at the time . Before the First World War , Perlmooser AG acquired a Portland cement plant in Judendorf near Graz , in Wachtl , and in Retznei, the Ehrenhausen cement factory . Before the war began, around 1,800 people were employed in the company's eleven plants.
In the inter-war period, expansion continued for the time being. In the meantime, Perlmooser produced half of the total demand in the rest of Austria with 1,500 employees. With the global economic crisis from 1929, however, some plants, for example Achau and Kirchbichl, had to be closed, so that the number of employees fell to around 600. In total, only six companies belonged to the group in 1937.
The owners were still the Schoeller and Miller-Aichholz families , although most of the shares were in Switzerland. The Länderbank also held a larger block of shares.
After the connection in 1938, Rodauner Kalk- und Zementfabrik AG, founded in 1896, joined Perlmooser AG, as did Holbag (wood and building materials company). In 1938 the majority of the Ziegelindustrie AG shares (ZIAG) was acquired.
The ZIAG shares were sold to Wienerberger in 1968 , while the Rodauner plant was an essential part of Perlmooser AG until 1996, but was then closed. For this purpose, the Steirische Montanwerke AG was taken over in 1968 .
The State Award , which entitles the company to use the federal coat of arms in business, received Perlmooser in 1,972th
In 1997 Perlmooser AG was taken over by the French Lafarge group.
In 2010 the plant in Retznei received the Erlebniswelt Wirtschaft seal of approval from the Styrian state government, as Lafarge takes part in the Erlebniswelt Wirtschaft - made in Styria campaign .
Ongoing operation and subsequent use
Since cement production and the associated quarries represent major interventions in the environment, there is also the problem of re-use.
In 2007, a renatured area with the Mannersdorf Desert Nature Park was started in Mannersdorf together with WWF Austria .
In 2009, plans became known according to which housing complexes were planned on the former factory premises in Rodaun / Kaltenleutbaren. The site belongs partly to the Vienna district of Liesing and the municipality of Kaltenleutbaren in Lower Austria. The population in Kaltenleuthaben spoke out against the project on Liesinger Boden, as they feared traffic chaos in the narrow valley. In addition, she feared the final end of the Kaltenleut given railway. The "Rodaun forest mill" was built from 2011 to 2016.
After the Second World War , von Perlmooser also mined gypsum in Preinsfeld near Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods in opencast and underground mining until 2001 ( Preinsfeld gypsum mine ) . After gypsum ingress and flooding took place, the area had to be backfilled.
literature
- Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria: Brief descriptions of large Austrian companies. Volume 1, Oldenbourg Verlag, Vienna 1987, ISBN 978-348653771-0 , Perlmooser chapter , pp. 220-225 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Lafarge Perlmooser
- Building material guide from Lafarge Perlmooser
- Entry on Lafarge Perlmooser in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from Lafarge: Strabag and Lafarge establish joint Eastern Europe cement holding (PDF; 184 kB) from May 2010, accessed on November 10, 2010
- ^ VÖZ Organization , accessed on November 11, 2010.
- ^ Lit. Mathis: Big Business , p. 224
- ↑ State coat of arms complete directory ( Memento of the original dated January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 11, 2010.
- ↑ "Erlebniswelt-Wirtschaft-Gütesiegel" for Lafarge Perlmooser Werk Retznei ,wirtschaft.steiermark.at from June 26, 2010, accessed on November 11, 2010
- ^ Architectural landscape of Lower Austria , accessed on November 11, 2010.
- ↑ Residential complex instead of Perlmooser cement works in the Wiener Zeitung of August 13, 2009, accessed on November 14, 2013
- ↑ http://www.waldmuehle-rodaun.at/
- ^ Waldmühle Rodaun: Living at the end of Vienna. In: derStandard.at. August 25, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Preinsfeld ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Minutes - Gipsbergbau Preinsfeld GmbH Nfg KG; Gypsum mining Preinsfeld; offset concept; Survey on the arrangement of security measures ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Notice of May 30, 2007 Offset Concept; Arrangement of security measures ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
