Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth

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The Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth is a truck assembly plant of Daimler AG in Wörth am Rhein . It belongs to the Daimler Trucks division and is considered the largest truck plant in the world. It has a floor area of ​​2,883,072 m² and a building area of ​​627,920 m². The daily production is up to 470 vehicles (as of July 2018). 10,357 employees worked at the Wörth plant at the end of 2017. The pure production area is 480,000 square meters.

Location and transport links

Administration building at gate 1

The plant is located east of federal highway 9 and north of federal highway 10 . It borders the port of Wörth in the north. Access for cars and visitors is via Daimlerstrasse, and access for trucks and suppliers is via Mercedesstrasse. The plant has a rail connection to the main industrial track between the train station and the Wörth port, which was built in 1964. The development and test center is located north of the plant between Bundesstraße 9, Hafenstraße and Mobilstraße. In Maximiliansau, the site of the former Schenck timber yard south of federal highway 10 between the Rhine and the eastern edge of the town is part of the factory premises.

The assembly hall is 1000 m long and 50 m wide. The Wörth plant is the second largest employer in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It supplies complete vehicles and CKD kits to more than 150 countries. In Europe, almost every third truck between 6.5 and 16 tons comes from the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth, in Germany almost every second.

production

Newly produced Mercedes trucks on a parking space near the Wörth harbor. In the background the chimney of the power station belonging to the plant
The first and three millionth truck from the Wörth plant (July 2006)

The following Mercedes-Benz trucks are manufactured in Wörth :

  • Actros : heavy class for use in long-distance traffic, heavy traffic and construction traffic
  • Arocs : heavy class for use in the construction industry
  • Atego : distribution transport in the city
  • Antos : Semitrailer tractors and flatbed trucks especially for use in heavy distribution transport
  • Econic : municipal, collective and distribution traffic
  • Unimog : all-terrain vehicle as an implement carrier
  • Zetros : all-terrain, heavy truck

Econic, Unimog and Zetros belong to the special vehicles product area . In 2012 it had 1,054 employees. The Wörth production center had 7,941 employees in 2012, the deconcentrated areas (including sales and EVZ) 2,956.

A part of the production is delivered as a parts kit ( Completely Knocked Down , CKD).

In 2013, up to 470 new trucks rolled off the assembly line every day.

In 1971 the 250,000th truck rolled off the production line in Wörth, and the one millionth truck in 1980. In 1991 the number of 1.5 million trucks was reached. The three millionth truck was delivered in July 2006. Total production since 1965 is more than 3.6 million trucks. Around 60 percent of production is exported to a total of more than 150 countries.

history

The Northwest Plant in 1967

In 1960, what was then Daimler-Benz AG bought 1.5 million m² of land near Wörth to build a plant. The original plan was to build an engine plant in Wörth to supply the truck plants in Mannheim (for light vehicles between six and twelve tons total weight) and Gaggenau (for heavy trucks over twelve tons). In 1963, the company decided that the Wörth plant should be expanded into a central truck plant and the Gaggenau and Mannheim plants should transfer truck production and the Sindelfingen plant the cab production to Wörth. At that time, a production unit of around 200 to 220 trucks per day and thus around 50,000 trucks per year was planned.

The plant was built from 1962 according to plans by Karl Kohlbecker . In 1965 the new administration building was built, in 1966 a central kitchen and a cafeteria with casino.

On October 1, 1963, the production of cab shell structures began in Wörth. From the end of 1964, completely painted cabs were also delivered, and from spring 1965 cabs including interior fittings. On July 14, 1965, the first complete truck rolled off the production line in Wörth. It was the LP 608 model, a new series of light trucks that was built in Wörth until 1984. In 1966, the originally planned production capacity was already reached when the construction of medium-weight trucks and the production of vehicle kits for shipping to other assembly plants were added.

In 1972 the new central spare parts warehouse for commercial vehicle, bus and Unimog parts was set up in Wörth. In 1976 a high-bay warehouse was completed. In 1990 the Global Logistics Center (GLC) was put into operation in Germersheim and parts of the warehouse were moved from Wörth to Germersheim. After 1991 around 4,000 jobs were cut.

In 1996, the then Sommer Allibert Industries (SAI) took over the plastic parts production of the Mercedes-Benz truck plant, which was set up in 1977 and had around 600 employees. In 2000, SAI was taken over by Faurecia , and it was agreed that the plant, with its last 125 employees, would be closed on July 30, 2013.

From 2000, ipw GmbH , a company owned by the district of Germersheim , built the Wörth industrial park on the factory premises. The three halls built there were rented to suppliers. At the beginning 50 employees worked in the industrial park, since 2004 there has been an average of 163 employees. The total area is around 40,000 m², of which around 13,500 m² is a production area. The following companies were located in the industrial park in 2010:

  • Grammer Wörth GmbH, driver's seats
  • Magna Seating (Germany) GmbH, couches and storage boxes
  • Fritzmeier Composite GmbH & Co.KG, wind control systems
  • Fritzmeier Composite GmbH & Co.KG, shelf above the windshield
  • Thomas GmbH & Co. Technik und Innovation KG, Liegen
  • Inteva Products Wörth GmbH & Co. KG, interior door modules
  • Sole GmbH, dashboard and fenders
  • Daimler FleetBoard GmbH, vehicle and transport-related telematics services

From 2002 to 2004 the 100 days hall and the branch information center were built as an extension of the customer center.

Access to the development and test center
Slopes in the development and test center

In 2008 a development and testing center (EVZ) for trucks was opened. It is located near the factory near the Wörth harbor. It has an area of ​​550,000 m². It was built between 2005 and 2008 for 80 million euros. The EVZ consists of an inner area with several bad weather stretches and fourteen different roadway profiles, the outer roadways with different angles of inclination, which are used for functional testing, and workshop and office buildings. 300 people are employed in the center. The planning also came from the Gaggenau office Kohlbecker.

In 2013, a block-type thermal power station was put into operation to generate its own energy.

Models produced

From 1973 the Mercedes-Benz NG series was built in Wörth , which was replaced by the heavy class in 1988 (until 1998). The lighter LN series was built between 1983 and 1998, followed by the Atego in 1998 . The Actros rolled off the production line in 1996 . In 2002 the production of the Unimog was relocated from Gaggenau to Wörth. In 2003, Econic production was relocated from Zwickau to Wörth. Production of the Unimog U 20 started in 2007 . Production of the Zetros began in 2009 .

Development of the production volume and the number of employees

year Number of employees Vehicles produced including CKD
1963 100
1965 2,600
1966 > 48,000
1967 4,188 53,000
1969 6,673
1971 6,737
1973 8,201
1975 8,687 105,200
1977 8,853
1979 9,622
1981 > 10,000 110.125
1986 ~ 70,000
1988 11,586 82,422
1991 15,035 > 102,000
1993 57.093
1998 8,681 > 90,000
2000 8,400 86,852
2001 8.097 79.902
2002 8,136 75.117
2003 85.310
2004 8,933 100,740
2005 102.913
2006 10,000 101,973
2007 10,900 108,469
2008 11,770 117,280
2009 11,140 47,745
2010 10,840 76,836
2011 11,670 97.972
2012 11,819 93,938
2013 ~ 12,000 103.058
2014 ~ 11,000 93,299
2015 101,434
2016 97,000
2017 11,050 ~ 100,000
2018 11,180 ~ 100,000
2019 10,700 ~ 85,000

According to the environmental statements, the number of employees at the Wörth site is distributed as follows:

year Wörth location Production
center Wörth
Special vehicles product area		 Sales truck Deconcentrated
areas		 Development and
test center
2002 9,074 7,684 372 318
2005 10,397 8,322 739 307 1,029
2006 10,750 8,609 813 320 1.008
2007 10,726 7,829 838 340 1,691 28
2008 11,949 8,753 949 363 1,699 185
2009 10,486 7.214 1,078 337 1,631 226
2010 10,765 6,816 1,067 2,882
2011 11,638 7,589 1,060 2,989
2012 11,951 7,941 1,054 2,956

According to the plant's environmental statements, the number of vehicles produced has been distributed as follows since 2000:

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CBU truck 99,758 105.165 41,596 68.020 86,994 79,072 86,533 79,232 89.202
CKD truck 5,712 8.205 2,842 5,626 7,852 11,413 12,684 11,705 8,324
Total truck 86,852 79.902 72,957 82,532 98.185 100.229 98,830 105,470 113,370 44,438 73,646 94,846 90,485 99.217 90.937 97,526
CBU special vehicles 3,305 3.165 3,108 3,453 3,821 2.139 3,178
CKD special vehicles 2 25th 18th 0 20th 223 730
Sum of special vehicles 2,160 2,778 2,555 2,684 3.143 2,999 3,910 3,307 3,190 3.126 3,453 3,841 2,362 3,908
Vehicles in total 86,852 79.902 75.117 85.310 100,740 102.913 101,973 108,469 117,280 47,745 76,836 97.972 93,938 103.058 93,299 101,434

Development of the factory area

In 1960 Daimler-Benz AG bought 1.5 million m² of space from the municipality of Wörth. In 2002, the site of the former Deutsche Linoleum-Werke near Maximiliansau, south of the Mercedes-Benz plant, was sold. It was bought by Mercedes-Benz after 1970. From 2007, the development and test center (EVZ) and the Schenck site in Maximiliansau have been included in the balance sheet in the factory area. In 2008, the factory premises were expanded by around 10,000 m² through the purchase of a piece of land west of the B 9 on Mercedesstrasse, which previously housed the Wörth plant of the Mercedes-Benz Landau branch.

year Factory area sealed of it Total building area
2000 2,422,826 m² 1,454,474 m²
2002 2,312,363 m² 1,381,955 m²
2005 1,993,413 m² 1,361,506 m²
2006 1,995,485 m² 1,372,187 m²
2007 2,870,501 m² 1,519,513 m²
2008 2,880,236 m² 1,637,971 m²
2009 2,883,072 m² 1,762,189 m² 605,238 m²
2010 2,883,072 m² 1,767,286 m² 625,551 m²
2011 2,883,072 m² 1,770,834 m²
2012 2,883,072 m² 1,771,809 m² 627,920 m²
2013 2,883,072 m² 1,771,987 m²
2014 2,883,072 m² 1,772,639 m²

Web links

Commons : Mercedes-Benz-Werk Wörth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement 2015, Wörth plant ( memento of January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4, accessed on January 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Updated environmental statement 2013, Wörth plant ( memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 8, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Figures, data, facts - Mercedes-Benz Trucks. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Daimler AG: Daimler Trucks at a Glance Edition 2018. Accessed July 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Press release from Daimler AG from September 30, 2013 ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ How to get to the Wörth plant (PDF; 351 kB), accessed on November 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Official Journal of the City of Wörth, special supplement, November 25, 2010, “50 Years Contract between Daimler-Benz AG and the Wörth Municipality” ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Press release from Daimler AG from October 1, 2013 ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ https://kohlbecker.de/site/index.php/de/10-projekte/148-projektover.html
  10. ↑ “The shop is buzzing” ( memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: brand eins, issue 1/2007, accessed on May 11, 2014
  11. ↑ Success story Wörth: the largest truck assembly plant in the world ( Memento from February 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), Daimler AG press release from July 17, 2006, accessed on February 11, 2014.
  12. ^ Faurecia Germany: History ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 5, 2014
  13. ↑ IG Metall Neustadt: Faurecia: Closure in Wörth regulated and the overall package at Faurecia must be right , accessed on November 10, 2013
  14. ↑ ipw GmbH ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Joint press release of ipw GmbH and Daimler AG of May 26, 2010 ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 717 kB)
  16. ↑ https://www.kohlbecker.de/site/index.php/de/projekte.html#1
  17. ↑ https://www.kohlbecker.de/site/index.php/de/projekte.html#14
  18. ↑ https://www.kohlbecker.de/site/index.php/de/projekte.html#51
  19. ↑ Environmental statement 2014 Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant ( Memento of December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 13, accessed on December 13, 2014.
  20. ↑ Mercedes-Benz-Werk Wörth on the website of Daimler AG ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 8, 2013
  21. ↑ a b Environmental Declaration 2008, Wörth Plant. ( Memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 8, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  22. ↑ a b c Updated environmental statement 2010 Wörth , Daimler AG, p. 8, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  23. ↑ a b c d e f g Archive Daimler-Benz AG, cited. n. Manfred Bader, Albert Ritter and Albert Schwarz: Wörth am Rhein. Local history. Two volumes. Wörth am Rhein 1983, together 1831 p., P. 1586
  24. ↑ a b c d e f Daimler cuts shift in Wörth , in: Die Rheinpfalz , edition Germersheimer Rundschau , from March 18, 2009, total workforce at the Wörth plant, information according to Daimler AG
  25. ↑ a b c d Environmental Declaration Plant Wörth 2002 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 22, accessed on January 25, 2014
  26. ↑ Environmental Declaration Plant Wörth 2002 ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 3, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  27. ↑ a b c d Environmental Declaration Plant Wörth 2004 ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 5, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  28. ↑ a b Environmental Declaration Plant Wörth 2005 ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 5, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  29. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement, Wörth plant 2006 ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 25, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  30. ↑ a b Updated environmental declaration for the Wörth plant 2007 ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 10, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  31. ↑ a b c d e Updated environmental statement, Wörth plant 2009 ( memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 8, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  32. ↑ a b c d More truck builders in Wörth than ever before , in: Die Rheinpfalz , edition Germersheimer Rundschau , from November 21, 2013, information according to Daimler AG, without temporary workers
  33. ↑ a b Environmental Declaration Plant Wörth 2011 , p. 7, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  34. ↑ a b c Updated environmental statement 2012, Wörth plant , p. 7, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  35. ↑ a b c d Updated environmental statement 2013, Wörth plant ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 7, accessed on January 21, 2014.
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  38. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement 2015, Wörth plant ( memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 22, accessed on January 23, 2016.
  39. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement 2016 Mercedes-Benz Wörth , p. 27, accessed on July 7, 2016.
  40. ↑ a b Daimler: Profit breaks away, Wörth plant stable , DIE RHEINPFALZ, accessed on July 26, 2018.
  41. ↑ a b Stable employment in Wörth , in: Die Rheinpfalz , edition Germersheimer Rundschau , from February 2, 2019.
  42. ↑ Daimler: Stability anchor for Wörth, Germersheim and Mannheim , DIE RHEINPFALZ, accessed on February 6, 2019.
  43. ↑ a b Fewer jobs: Daimler is slowing down in the region , DIE RHEINPFALZ, accessed on February 12, 2020.
  44. ↑ a b c Updated environmental statement 2003 Wörth plant ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 11, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  45. ↑ Updated environmental declaration for the Wörth plant 2007 ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 5, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  46. ↑ Environmental declaration plant Wörth 2011 , p. 8, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  47. ↑ Updated environmental statement 2003 Wörth plant ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 12, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  48. ↑ private page of Eric Bossert , Former Deutsche Linoleum-Werke Maximiliansau AG - historical background, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  49. ↑ a b c d e Wörth plant environmental statement 2008 ( memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 7, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  50. ↑ Updated environmental declaration for the Wörth plant in 2009 ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 7, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  51. ↑ a b Simplified environmental declaration for the Wörth plant ( memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 1, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  52. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement at the Wörth plant in 2006 ( memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  53. ↑ a b Updated environmental declaration for the Wörth plant 2007 ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  54. ↑ a b Updated environmental statement 2010 Wörth , Daimler AG, p. 7, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  55. ↑ Updated environmental statement 2010 Wörth , Daimler AG, p. 34, accessed on February 10, 2014.
  56. ↑ a b c d Environmental Declaration 2014 Mercedes-Benz Wörth Plant ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 36, accessed on December 13, 2014.
  57. ↑ Wörth plant environmental statement 2011 , p. 37, accessed on January 25, 2014.
  58. ↑ Updated environmental statement 2013, Wörth plant ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 34, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  59. ↑ Updated Environmental Declaration 2015, Wörth Plant ( Memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 33, accessed on January 23, 2016.

Remarks

  1. ↑ 10,759 according to the Daimler-Benz AG archive, quoted in n. Manfred Bader, Albert Ritter and Albert Schwarz: Wörth am Rhein. Local history. Two volumes. Wörth am Rhein 1983, together 1831 p., P. 1586
  2. ↑ at the Wörth and Germersheim locations
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Total workforce at the Wörth plant
  4. ↑ according to "100 temporary workers more at Daimler Wörth", in: Die Rheinpfalz , edition Germersheimer Rundschau , from November 30, 2010: 82,631 (without special vehicles such as Unimog and Econic), information according to Daimler AG
  5. ↑ Vehicles delivered in 2011: 108,787, vehicles produced in 2011 97,972 according to the updated environmental declaration 2013 at the Wörth plant ( memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 7, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ core workforce 10,360, temporary workers: 790
  7. ↑ Permanent workforce: 10,281, temporary workers: approx. 900
  8. ↑ Permanent workforce: 10,326, temporary workers: approx. 380
  9. ↑ 2003 referred to as "Unimog product range" (PBU)
  10. ↑ a b values ​​corrected in the 2008 environmental statement
  11. ↑ a b values ​​corrected in the 2009 environmental statement
  12. ↑ Deconcentrated areas (including sales, EVZ, temporary workers)
  13. ↑ a b Deconcentrated areas (including sales, EVZ)
  14. ↑ +2836 m² due to adjustment to the official cadastral area

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 58 "  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 12.2"  E