MHG heating technology

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MHG Heiztechnik GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1927
Seat Buchholz in the Nordheide , Germany
GermanyGermany 
management Frank Schellhöh, Julian Bonato
Number of employees over 130 (2012)
sales over € 40 million (2012)
Branch Heating technology
Website www.mhg.de

The MHG Heiztechnik GmbH , headquartered in Buchholz (formerly MAN Heiztechnik GmbH , based in Hamburg ) is a German provider heiztechnischer systems. The products include devices for fossil fuels and for renewable energies such as solar thermal and environmental heating . MHG is a pioneer in the introduction of intelligent “hybrid systems” - heating devices that combine different energy sources and types of use. Originally the company had produced marine engines.

history

The company was founded in 1927 as Wagner High Pressure Dampfturbinen AG (WAHODAG), which manufactured marine steam turbines and boilers. Their products were found, for example, in the East Asian steamships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst , the Reichsmarinekreuzer Brummer , the four destroyers of the Hamburg class , the training ship Deutschland of the German Navy and in the buoy laying ship Kapitän Meyer . The water tube boiler - and high-pressure turbine technology of the company has led the way in the ship's engine design of the Navy .

After the death of the founder, Rudolf Wagner, the name was changed to a limited partnership. In 1953, MAN took over the company, which initially operated under the name of Wahodag GmbH. In 1969 the first burner for standard household heating systems was presented. In 1977, under the influence of the oil crisis, the blue burner known as the "rocket burner" was launched, which was supposed to overcome the disadvantages of the usual "yellow burner". The name is based on the flame color, which was blue instead of yellow as before due to the higher combustion temperature. This was achieved by diverting some of the hot combustion gases to the injection nozzle and increasing the temperature there so that the oil droplets evaporate and burn as a gas mixed with the combustion air in a combustion chamber. The product was developed in collaboration with the German Aerospace Research Center (DLR) under the leadership of Winfried Buschulte . The advantages were that the blue burner burned the oil with almost no soot and the exhaust gases contained less nitrogen oxides and less carbon monoxide. The competitor company Weishaupt , which launched a blue burner at the end of the 1960s, was unable to establish itself at the time.

MAN rocket burner

The technology was also built under license from DLR by competitors such as Buderus and Viessmann , who over time also sold their own models based on the same principle. MAN Heiztechnik received the Blue Angel eco- label for the rocket burner in 1981 .

In 2005 the company came to new owners through a management buy-out and has been trading as MHG Heiztechnik GmbH ever since . In 2006 the company headquarters moved to the new location in Buchholz; 100 employees stayed in Hamburg. In 2006 the MHG Group achieved sales of € 42 million with 160 employees; In 2012 it was over € 40 million with over 120 employees.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The management of MHG Heiztechnik GmbH , www.mhg.de, accessed on June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c 2012 annual financial statements of MHG Heiztechnik GmbH at www.bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on June 11, 2014. € 30 million in sales and 105 employees in the individual financial statements , plus subsidiaries in England, Switzerland and Germany, of which the latter around 25 % of group sales and has 24 employees.
  3. ↑ Hybrids are on the rise . In: TGA Fachplaner, issue 03-2011, www.tga-fachplaner.de, accessed on July 1, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Eike Lehmann, 100 Years of Shipbuilding Society: Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Volume 2, Shipbuilding Society (ed.), ISBN 978-3-540-64150-6 , Springer, 1999, pp. 30 and 519
  5. ↑ a b Peter Kuckuk , Die Ostasienschnelldampfer Scharnhorst, Potsdam and Gneisenau of North German Lloyd: a contribution to the shipbuilding and shipping history of the Third Reich , ISBN 978-3-89757-226-3 , HM Hauschild, 2005, pp. 60, 64 and Further
  6. ↑ Peter Kuckuk, Bremer Grosswerften im Third Reich, Volume 15 of the contributions to the social history of Bremen , ISBN 978-3-86108-203-3 , Edition Temmen, 1993, p. 19
  7. ↑ a b MAN: 20 years in the mirror of the press, 1945-1965; Company history in the mirror of the press , Volume 1, 1965, p. 46
  8. ↑ a b c 30 years of Raketenbrenner®: a review ( memento of March 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); MHG Heiztechnik GmbH, Hamburg
  9. ↑ a b c Buderus Heat optimally in the future with the latest technology ; Advertising brochure for Buderus Heiztechnik; accessed on May 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Andreas Triebe; 30 years of blue burner technology: The flame makes the difference ; Heating journal 2007/09; P. 34 ff; accessed on May 28, 2014. At the time the article was created, Andreas Triebe was the head of the design department at MHG Heiztechnik GmbH, Hamburg.
  11. ↑ Interview with Adolf Frank (former head of the DLR missile test facility in Lampoldshausen), www.uni-stuttgart.de, July 9, 2008, accessed on May 27, 2014. Archive ( Memento from May 27, 2014 on WebCite ).
  12. ↑ Opportunity for 20 experienced employees in the Hamburger Abendblatt , December 2, 2006, accessed on July 2, 2014.
  13. ↑ Aimed for growth , www.sbz-online.de, December 15, 2012, accessed on June 11, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '11 "  N , 9 ° 52' 18.4"  E