Lenze Group

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Lenze SE

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legal form Societas Europaea
founding November 5, 1947
Seat Aerzen - Groß Berkel , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Christian Wendler (CEO), Frank Maier, Achim Degner
Number of employees 3,969 worldwide, 51.4% in Germany (April 30, 2019)
sales 787.6 million euros
Branch Drive and automation technology
Website www.lenze.com
As of April 30, 2019

Headquarters in Groß Berkel

The Lenze SE is a German manufacturer and developer of drive technology and automation . The head office is in Aerzen - Groß Berkel near Hameln .

activity

The group of companies includes 46 sales companies , development and production plants as well as logistics centers in Europe, Asia and the USA. The company employs more than 3,950 people worldwide, 300 of them in research and development at eight locations. Produced drives , automation systems, frequency inverters , servo systems, industrial PCs , PLCs , visualization products, gear and gear motors , engines , equipment , control systems and software .

Lenze has its own companies and representative offices in Belgium , Brazil , Bulgaria , China , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Great Britain , India , Italy , Croatia , Lithuania , Malaysia , the Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Russia , Sweden , Switzerland , Slovenia , Spain , Taiwan , Czech Republic , Hungary and USA . The company is represented in 60 countries with sales and service.

The board consists of Christian Wendler ( CEO ), Achim Degner and Frank Maier. Lenze was converted from a stock corporation into a European company in 2009 . In the 2018/2019 financial year , Lenze achieved sales of 787.6 million euros (previous year 741.0 million euros).

Company founder

The founder Hans Lenze (born March 9, 1890, † 1963) completed a commercial training in Dortmund and then worked in the Spanish cork industry. As an officer, he took part in the First World War. In the 1920s he was employed in several companies in the Ruhr area, where he founded his own trading company in 1931. In 1936 he headed the newly founded Mannesmann Export GmbH (Mannex), which moved to Hamelin in 1943. On November 5, 1947, he took over the domestic trading company under the name Stahlkontor Weser GmbH . This company takeover was the origin of today's Lenze Group.

Company history

At the Leipzig spring fair in 1967 there was a gold medal for Hans Lenze KG

In 1947, Hans Lenze took over the trading company Stahlkontor GmbH Weser in Hameln. It was the origin of today's Lenze Group. From 1948 the development of a product range in the field of mechanical drive technology began . Initially, products were still manufactured under license. The company later began to drive its own developments and presented them at the first appearance at the German Industrial Fair in 1952 in Hanover .

In 1957, the machine factory Hans Lenze KG was founded and in the following year a new geared motor production facility began operations in Bösingfeld . In 1962 there was an expansion of production. In Groß Berkel a new plant was built at the location where the company's headquarters are today. After Hans Lenze's death on June 14, 1963, his son-in-law Alfred Belling succeeded him and took over the management. With 850 employees, the Lenze Group achieved an annual turnover of around 20 million euros in 1967.

In 1968 the Lenze company began developing and producing electronic drive controllers and from 1969 expanded its sales network worldwide. The electronics development was summarized in Gross Berkel 1,973th In the same year automation began in production. The company's first frequency converter for controlling three-phase motors came onto the market in 1977. Six years later, it began developing hybrid circuits for frequency converters. From 1984 the name Lenze became a registered trademark . The development of servo technology also began in 1984. In 1987, frequency converters were first equipped with microprocessors .

In the 1980s, the managing director H. Maroldt (born November 14, 1923) of the Lenze Group worked for the company for 30 years.

In 1994 the company was restructured and Lenze Holding GmbH & Co KG was founded. In its first business year it achieved sales of 209 million euros. In 1996, the company started Lenze with the production of intelligent drives ( English drive-based automation ). Electronics production started in the new factory in Groß Berkel. Further restructuring of the company followed around 2000.

In 1996, the company hired its first non-family manager after making a loss of seven million in the previous year. From 1997, the company reported according to the international IAS standard. In 1999 the drive technology company AC Technology Corporation in Uxbridge ( USA ) was incorporated into the Lenze Group. A year later, the Lenze subsidiary encoway was founded in Bremen , which specializes in the development of configuration software . In 1999, the electromagnetic clutches and brakes product groups were sold to the head of the business unit Udo Ogrodowski. The business was continued under the name Magneta. The takeover by the Kendrion Group followed in 2010.

In 2001 Lenze AG emerged from Lenze Holding GmbH & Co KG . In the first financial year of the AG, the turnover was 416 million euros. In 2004 the Lenze Group employed more than 3,000 people worldwide. L-force , a new generation of drive and automation technology, was introduced this year. The system has a modular structure. In the following year, the market launch of the L-force Servo Drive 9400 began and the internationalization of the business was advanced.

In 2002 Peter Lohse was CEO. At that time, 38 companies belonged to the Lenze Group. 2005 was a sale of the brakes business as part of a management buy-out of INTORQ .

In 2006 the two millionth frequency converter of the 8200 series was manufactured. Lenze AG took over the majority stake in the partner company Schmidhauser AG from Romanshorn ( Switzerland ), which manufactures control and drive technology. In 2007 Lenze entered into a product partnership with DaimlerChrysler to supply drive technology for all processes in the bodies of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class . The expansion of the automation portfolio with the first PC-based automation system continued. In 2008 the L-force Inverter Drive 8400 was presented. As of April 30, 2009, Lenze AG reduced its workforce by 246 from 3,449 in the previous year to 3,203 due to the global economic crisis .

In 2009 the newly developed L-force Controls I / O-System 1000 was presented. In October 2009 Lenze AG was converted into Lenze SE . At the trade fair for electrical automation technology (SPS / IPC / DRIVES) in Nuremberg , Lenze presented the decentralized converter 8400 protec .

In February 2011 the Lenze juggler was shown on the WDR broadcast Kopfball . Lenze has been working with Holger Borcherding from the Innovation Department at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences since 2011 .

In 2017, Lenze took over the majority in the cloud and IoT service provider logicline GmbH. With this, the subsidiary encoway GmbH expanded in the areas of "cloud" and "mobile". In May 2018, the company opened the digital innovation lab DOCK ONE in the offices of encoway GmbH in Bremen. It is used for internal development work and joint projects with customers, partners and research institutions.

Hans Lenze Foundation Aerzen

In 1990 Elisabeth Belling, geb. Lenze (* October 24, 1921, † October 17, 2013) founded the Hans Lenze Foundation Aerzen on the occasion of the 100th birthday of her father Hans Lenze, the founder of the Lenze company. The support goes to young scientists for postgraduate studies, project work, doctorates and habilitations . The head of the foundation is Julia von Opel , a great-granddaughter of the company's founder .
In 2019 the foundation was renamed the Hans and Clara Lenze Foundation in order to bring the joint work of Hans Lenze and his wife Clara to the public.

Publications

Lenze has published an employee magazine called transmission four times a year since 1989 . The 26th edition of the DriveIn customer magazine was discontinued in mid-2011.

  • Peter F. Brosch: Mechatronic drive systems: geared motors with integrated frequency converters. Published 2000. ISBN 3-478-93220-3
  • Lutz Budraß : Lenze, Hameln and the world: the history of a family company. Published 2004. Entry at the German National Library
  • Peter Wratil; Michael Kieviet: Security technology for components and systems. Published 2007. ISBN 3-7785-2984-6
  • Edwin Kiel (Ed.): Drive solutions: Mechatronics for production and logistics. Published 2007. ISBN 3-540-73425-2
  • Stephan Riese: Drive solutions: formulas, design and tables (large collection of formulas). Published in 2008. Entry at the German National Library
  • Stephan Riese: Compact drive solutions: formulas and tables (small collection of formulas). Released in 2009.

Web links

Commons : Lenze (company)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b Board of Directors , accessed on July 5, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c annual report
  3. ↑ VDI Society for Construction and Development: Construction, Volume 36, Page 43.
  4. ↑ a b c Stefan Winter: Lenze defies the big players in mechanical engineering on January 1st, 2002, 7:00 p.m.
  5. ^ Deister-Weser-Zeitung: Technology from Groß Berkel - on site and worldwide ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), published on January 19, 2006
  6. ^ Deister-Weser-Zeitung: Dutch company takes over Magneta , published on March 1, 2010
  7. ↑ Brake business spun off ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), published in the A&D issue July 2005, page 6
  8. ↑ Lars Reppesgaard, Claudia Tödtmann: Societas Europaea: family companies rely on new legal form. In: Handelsblatt . February 5, 2010, accessed February 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Lenze juggler celebrates its premiere on television , January 25, 2011
  10. ↑ Alexander Völker: Interview with Holger Borcherding ( memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from May 27, 2011.
  11. ↑ She was a generous, strong woman in: Dewezet of October 25, 2013

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