Müller Weingarten
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1866, 1863/1898 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Schuler AG |
| Seat | Weingarten , Germany |
| management | Joachim Beyer |
| Number of employees | 2,307 |
| sales | EUR 336.6 million |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| As of December 31, 2006 | |
The Müller Weingarten AG was a company headquartered in the Württemberg Weingarten , which was mainly active in the field of mechanical engineering. The group had production sites in Weingarten, Erfurt and Dalian (China) and mainly supplied the automotive industry. The group was divided into the seven business areas of mechanical presses, hydraulic presses, die casting technology, massive forming, compact presses, tool making and service. Müller Weingarten AG is the only machine and system manufacturer in the world to combine the three core competencies for metal forming, especially in automotive engineering, under one roof.
In spring 2007 it became known that Müller Weingarten had been taken over by Schuler AG from Göppingen. The integration of Müller Weingarten and its subsidiaries into the Schuler Group began in 2007. The takeover gave rise to the world's leading provider of forming technology for metal processing with a market share of around 35 percent.
On December 1, 2007, Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG ( Schorndorf ) took over the die casting technology division of Müller Weingarten AG.
At the beginning of 2008, the operations of other subsidiaries of Schuler and Müller Weingarten were merged abroad, as well as the Müller Weingarten Tools GmbH in Schuler Cartec GmbH merged .
On January 26, 2011, the Schuler management announced that Müller Weingarten AG was merging with other parts of the Schuler Group. This resulted in Schuler Pressen GmbH , which is fully integrated into Schuler AG . At the same time, this also marked the end of Müller Weingarten AG and the company's world-famous brand name.
Key figures
As of December 31, 2006, the group had 2,307 employees worldwide and achieved sales of 336.6 million euros in the 2006 financial year. At this point in time, it had equity of EUR 72.607 million. The Müller Weingarten AG was listed in Stuttgart and Munich on the official market of the stock exchanges (ISIN DE0006579006).
history
In 1866 Johannes Michael Schatz built a workshop in Weingarten. In the same year his father died and his son Heinrich Schatz took over the workshop and founded a company. First chain stitch machines were manufactured, from 1872 production was switched to sheet metal processing machines. In 1898 the company was converted into a stock corporation ( Maschinenfabrik Weingarten vorm. Hch. Schatz AG ). In 1925 the construction of large mechanical presses for the automotive industry began. After the factory was dismantled in 1945 by the British and the Americans, it was rebuilt in 1958. Automatic punching presses and large presses for the automotive industry were the main products after the Second World War.
Fritz Müller founded a locksmith's shop in Esslingen am Neckar as early as 1863 . The first oil presses were manufactured from 1870 and hydraulic drawing presses from 1880.
In 1981/82 the Maschinenfabrik Müller Weingarten AG was created through the merger of the two companies Maschinenfabrik Weingarten AG from Weingarten and Müller Pressen- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH from Esslingen. In 1982 the company had around 2500 employees. The internationalization of the group began with the establishment of a subsidiary in the USA in 1988. From 1994 this operated under the new name Müller Weingarten AG . In 2000, the company had an average of 1924 employees, 1826 of whom were employed in Germany. In 2006 there was an average of 2307 employees.
The takeover of Beutler Nova AG , a press manufacturer from Gettnau , Switzerland , and BÊCHÉ & Grohs GmbH , a forging machine manufacturer from Hückeswagen , took place in 1999. In 2001, Müller Weingarten AG took over Umformtechnik Erfurt GmbH from Erfurt , whose origins go back to one Company founded in 1902 by Henry Pels . Initially hand-operated scissors and punching machines were manufactured there, and from 1954 large presses were manufactured.
From November 2019, the building parts for production, assembly, heat treatment and the training workshop were demolished. The building, which houses the incoming goods department and canteen, will be retained for a limited period. The buildings in which engineering and sales for the Forging and Stamping & Cutting divisions are located will remain.
The site was acquired by the Austrian i + R Gruppe GmbH. Mixed use for residential, retail, offices, services and restaurants is planned for the development. In a competition announced by the city of Weingarten, the area was named "Martinshöfe".
See also
Web links
- Early newspaper articles on Müller Weingarten in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.schwaebische.de
- ↑ Schuler Group: Müller Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany ( Memento from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Maschinenfabrik Weingarten AG - old historical stocks and securities
- ↑ Müller Weingarten AG - Pension concept of Müller Weingarten AG ( 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.
- ↑ Müller Weingarten Group Annual Report 2006 ( 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.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 41.2 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 31.5" E