Lurgi
| Lurgi GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1897 |
| Seat |
Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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| management | François Venet |
| Number of employees | 1500 worldwide, 600 in Germany (2013) |
| sales | 676 million euros |
| Branch | Process engineering and plant construction |
The Lurgi GmbH was an internationally active company in the large-scale plant is based in Frankfurt am Main . Lurgi has been part of the Air Liquide group of companies since July 20, 2007 , has now been fully integrated into the group's corporate structure and has been operating under the name Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Germany GmbH since April 2014 . The focus of business activities is on the field of plant engineering for the production of petrochemical intermediate and end products as well as synthetic fuels and oleochemicals .
history
In 1897 Lurgi was founded by Metallgesellschaft AG under the name Metallurgische Gesellschaft . The first areas of work concerned non-ferrous metallurgy , electrical gas dedusting and the production of sulfuric acid . In 1919 the middle letters LURGI, chosen as the telegram address, were adopted as the company name.
From 1920 to 1936 coal refinement was developed through smoldering, gasification and fuel synthesis ( Fischer-Tropsch synthesis ). During the Second World War, prisoners from Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp had to do forced labor for the company. In the post-war years, Lurgi participated in the founding of the Frankfurt rubble recycling company , which was respected in Germany and around the world , and which produced new building material from the rubble from the war ruins. The processing and recycling plant for rubble that was built for this purpose and which was active until 1964 was designed by Lurgi.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the areas of mineral oil technology, petrochemicals, water management and environmental technology were expanded.
Under Dietrich Natus as spokesman for the management, Lurgi was one of the leading international plant manufacturers with a wide range of up to 300 individual processes and over 5000 employees. In 1984 the individual companies were merged to form Lurgi GmbH, which in 1987 merged under the common roof of the newly built Lurgihaus . In 1990 the GmbH was converted into an AG.
In the course of a consolidation and restructuring of Metallgesellschaft AG after high-loss oil futures transactions in 1993, a concentration on the core business followed. In the following years, the number of employees and the procedures offered were therefore drastically reduced and the business restructured. In 1994, the field of waste water management at the was Bamag GmbH (Berlin-Anhalt Maschinenbau AG in Butzbach ) transmit and 2000 of the coal combustion and flue gas cleaning to the Lentjes GmbH outsourced.
In 2001 the metallurgy business (formerly Lurgi Metallurgie GmbH) was sold to the Finnish metal and technology group Outokumpu and the headquarters moved to Oberursel near Frankfurt. In April 2007 the Outokumpu Technology division was renamed Outotec.
2003/2004 the regions gasification, dust removal and were DeNOx the Envirotherm GmbH sold
On January 1, 2007, the operative business of Zimmer AG (polymer chemistry) was integrated into Lurgi AG through the establishment of Lurgi Zimmer GmbH. On April 17, 2007, Lurgi AG was sold by GEA Group AG (formerly Metallgesellschaft AG) to the French group Air Liquide . The company value was given as 200 million euros. On December 28, 2007, the corporate form was changed from a stock corporation to a GmbH with a share capital of 30 million euros. On February 7, 2008 the following were appointed as managing directors: Jens Dornedden, Dieter Grabenbauer. On June 4, 2008 the following were appointed as managing director: Harald Notstain.
Lurgi was the world market leader as a supplier of biodiesel plants, plants in oleochemistry, polymer technology and for the production of methanol .
Business figures
- 2004: turnover: 341 million euros; Employees: 975
- 2006: Turnover: 850 million euros; Employees: 1,300 worldwide
- 2007: Turnover: 676 million euros; Employees: 1,450 worldwide; 750 of them in Germany
- 2013: Employees: 3,500 worldwide; 600 of them in Germany
- 2014: Renaming to Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Germany GmbH
Web links
- Official website
- Plant manufacturer Lurgi without CIO , www.cio.de, March 7, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Drawing for China. In: Die Zeit , No. 4/1979
- ↑ Company history of the metal company.
- ↑ Lurgi today. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on April 14, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Lurgi News. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on April 14, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau , April 18, 2007
- ↑ Frankfurt District Court (Frankfurt / Main) File number: HRB 33129
- ↑ a b Frankfurt District Court (Frankfurt / Main) File number: HRB 82129
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures. German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ Air Liquide News. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2007 ; accessed on April 14, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ Company portrait : Lurgi GmbH
- ↑ Company portrait : Lurgi GmbH
