maxit

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maxit is a word and image mark for building materials, especially for dry mortar and dry plaster . Its owner is the Saint-Gobain Weber company . In addition, several companies in the Franken-Maxit Group , in which Saint-Gobain Weber has a stake, run the brand as part of their company name .

Word and figurative mark maxit

history

Mathis lime works

Maxit originated in Merdingen near Freiburg im Breisgau , where a brick and lime kiln was founded in 1873 . In 1929 Josef Mathis built a lime works there with a lime slaking and grinding plant. Since then it has been possible to produce lime in powder form in Merdingen and sell it packaged in paper sacks. In 1946, Josef Mathis was killed in a robbery. His wife Katharina Mathis († 2003 at the age of 99) continued the business with her five children, including Franz Mathis (1930–2012) and his brother. From 1960 the company produced adhesive plasters (ready-to-use plasters) and sold them under the brand name "Durit".

Maxit silos on a construction site (2006)

In 1965, Mathis was the first German lime works to produce machine plasters based on lime - gypsum and lime- cement . From 1969, Kalkwerk Mathis GmbH & Co. sold the products under the “Maxit” brand, which the company had protected the previous year. Due to the increasing spread of dry mortar products , the company was the first to provide free fall silos with continuous mixers on construction sites from 1977 . In 1978 Mathis expanded to Bavaria and founded Franken Maxit GmbH together with Kalkwerk Johann Bergmann GmbH & Co. KG . The new company built a dry mortar plant in Azendorf in Franconia and from then on remained partially owned by Mathis. Also in 1978, Mathis founded m-tec mathis technik GmbH for the development of such and other technical systems, which was relocated to Neuenburg am Rhein in 1983 . In 1985 Paul Mathis and his family were killed in a plane crash.

The Merdinger Kalkwerk was renamed between 1996 and 1997: the brand owner Kalkwerk Mathis GmbH & Co. became maxit Baustoff- und Kalkwerk Mathis GmbH . In 1998 maxit began selling its own thermal insulation composite system and, as a supplement to the construction site logistics, offered scaffolding baskets, which were given the nickname "speedy". In the same year, the company was the first manufacturer to present a " self-leveling cement screed " based on dry mortar.

HeidelbergCement

The heirs of Mathis sold in 1999 its shares in the holding company Maxit Holding GmbH , headquartered in Breisach am Rhein to the company HeidelbergCement . The negotiations lasted a. unusually long because of the heterogeneous shareholder structure of the Maxit Group. At the end of the 2001 financial year, HeidelbergCement owned 70.7% of the shares in the parent company.

HeidelbergCement renamed maxit Holding GmbH to Heidelberger maxit GmbH by the year 2000 and consolidated its German dry mortar activities under this roof. In addition to maxit Baustoff- und Kalkwerk Mathis GmbH , other previously independent companies were merged into Heidelberger maxit GmbH in 2001 :

  • maxit Baustoffwerke Brieselang / Brandenburg GmbH & Co. KG, Brieselang
  • maxit Baustoffwerke Nord GmbH & Co. KG, Klein Schulzendorf
  • maxit Baustoffwerke West GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim

At the beginning of 2003, Heidelberger maxit was renamed Maxit Germany and it was simultaneously merged with other companies:

The consolidation that began in 2001 led to the loss of around 500 jobs. At the European level, it was supplemented by the consolidation of the building materials activities (Maxit, Beamix and Optiroc) as the Heidelberger Baustoffe Europa (HBE) division.

In the course of the intention to sell this business area, it was renamed maxit group in 2003. The company Maxit Group AB , whose headquarters are now in Sollentuna , Sweden , employed almost 5,000 people at 130 production sites in 27 countries at the end of the 2003 financial year and was the European market leader in the areas of dry mortar, lightweight aggregates and construction chemical products.

The sale negotiations, overseen by Goldman Sachs , pointed towards the end of a sale to the private equity space . The bidders in the final round included the Texas Pacific Group , PAI partners and Cinven . In the summer of 2007, however, the French company Compagnie de Saint-Gobain was awarded the contract , which the group acquired for around 2.125 billion euros, thereby doubling its pan-European mortar business. With the amount achieved, HeidelbergCement financed a partial takeover of the British building materials supplier Hanson plc for 11.54 billion euros, for which it had already parted with the French company Vicat .

Istein lime works

The previously leased Istein production site was also to be sold to Saint-Gobain in 2009. However, after HeidelbergCement's price expectations were not met, the company kept the lime works as well as that of Regensburg's Walhalla Kalk GmbH & Co. KG. In 2015, HeidelbergCement sold its stakes in both lime plants to the Belgian Lhoist Group .

Saint-Gobain

As of July 1, 2008, a uniform management was established for the two companies Maxit Deutschland GmbH and Saint-Gobain Weber GmbH. From then on Weber acted as the umbrella brand , the name Maxit Group was dropped. The former head office in Breisach am Rhein was merged with the branch in Merdingen and partially relocated to Weber in Wülfrath in the Rhineland. The Maxit Germany GmbH was deleted from the commercial register. The shares in Franken Maxit held by Maxit Deutschland GmbH were transferred to Saint-Gobain Weber.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Farewell to Franz Mathis , Badische Zeitung, March 1, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Information on the 851282 brand , register.dpma.de, accessed on September 6, 2013
  3. ^ Neuchâtel: Always there where the construction industry is booming , Badische Zeitung, August 30, 2008, accessed on September 2, 2013
  4. ↑ Anja-Maria Meister: Franconian inventors do magic with plaster , frankenpost.de, June 19, 2013, accessed on September 5, 2013
  5. ^ Heidelbergerger Zement: Negotiations with Maxit Holding. In: baustoffmarkt-online.de. June 25, 1999, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c annual report. (PDF; 2.3 MB) heidelbergcement.com, 2001, archived from the original on January 19, 2012 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ The new organization of the "maxit Group" , in: Die Industrie der Steine ​​+ Erden, issue 5/00, accessed on September 5, 2013
  8. ↑ HeidelbergCement AG bearer shares oN - 604700 , comdirect.de, accessed on September 5, 2013
  9. ↑ Heidelberger maxit: Mortar activities merged. In: baustoffmarkt-online.de. September 11, 2001, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Group names filed , FussbodenTechnik 06/02 (Economy), accessed on September 5, 2013
  11. ↑ Heidelberger maxit becomes maxit Deutschland GmbH , Die Industrie der Steine ​​+ Erden, Edition 1/03, accessed on September 5, 2013
  12. ↑ Sales prospectus for 31,100,000 no-par value bearer shares ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Xetra , June 13, 2003, accessed on September 5, 2013
  13. ↑ Annual report. (PDF; 5.0 MB) heidelbergcement.com, 2003, archived from the original on January 19, 2012 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ High bids for Heidelment's Maxit division ( memento from September 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) , ftd.de, July 18, 2007, accessed on September 5, 2013
  15. ↑ a b Frank Seidlitz: HeidelCement sells mortar manufacturer Maxit , welt.de, August 8, 2007, accessed on September 5, 2013
  16. ↑ a b Saint Gobain pays 2.1 billion euros: Heidelberg-Cement sells Maxit , handelsblatt.com, August 7, 2007, accessed on September 5, 2013
  17. ↑ Victoria Langelott: Efringen-Kirchen: Restructuring only affects the Maxit administration: Production in Istein continues , Badische Zeitung, 12. February 2009, accessed September 2, 2013
  18. ↑ Victoria Langelott: Economy: Nobody wants Kalkwerk Istein , Badische Zeitung, April 21, 2009, accessed on September 4, 2013
  19. ^ Production of lime and limestone at the Istein plant. heidelbergcement.com, archived from the original on February 9, 2013 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Heidelberg Cement sells the Regensburg lime works to the Belgian Lhoist Group. In: wochenblatt.de. September 2, 2015, accessed May 13, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Since July 1st in Germany under uniform management , FussbodenTechnik 05/08 (personal details), accessed on September 5th, 2013
  22. ↑ Gerold Zink: Breisach: About 20 employees do not want to move: Maxit gives up location at the end of February , Badische Zeitung, February 11, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2013

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