MEN - Metallwerk Elisenhütte

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MEN - Metallwerk Elisenhütte GmbH

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founding 1957
Seat Nassau , Germany
management Hermann Mayer, ( Managing Director )
Number of employees 290 (2018)
sales € 67 million (2018)
Branch Defense industry
Website www.men-defencetec.de
As of August 31, 2020

The MEN - metal Elisenhütte GmbH ( MEN ) belongs to the financial holding "Magtech Europe GmbH" and is a subsidiary of Brazil's Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos . The German subsidiary has long been a defense industry company based in Nassau an der Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate . The metal works Elisenhütte was named after the Elisenhütte peninsula. The company was founded in 1957 and is internationally known for the production of ammunition for small arms .

Products

Metallwerk Elisenhütte is one of the most important manufacturers of small-caliber ammunition and one of the largest ammunition factories in Germany. Furthermore, propellant charges and projectiles such as the solid-bowl -Weichkern- and solid bowl hard core bullets ( AP, Armor Piercing ) for the G22 of the German Federal Armed Forces developed.

The company supplies the armed forces , police , federal police , federal customs administration , judicial authorities and marksmen , but also the European and Asian military as well as various international police units with ammunition for pistols , submachine guns , assault rifles , machine guns and sniper rifles . The export share is over 50 percent. Around 160 million cartridges were produced in 2009, which was the production and order volume limit for that year.

Metallwerk Elisenhütte GmbH equips the entire police force in Germany with "green ammunition". The projectiles in these ammunition do not contain lead and the primers and propellant charges are free from toxic substances.

history

The company was founded in 1957 by the federally owned Deutsche Industrieanlagen Gesellschaft mbH (DIAG) with the aim of supplying the newly founded Bundeswehr with ammunition. Werner GmbH West Berlin supplied the initial equipment with machines and production systems . The Elisenhütte metalworks was owned by DIAG until 1990. The Munich-based vehicle manufacturer MAN then acquired the company and later wanted to sell it to the Swiss aerospace technology and defense group RUAG . The sale was prohibited by the Federal Cartel Office. In 2007 the company was sold on to the Brazilian armaments group Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos (CBC) and has since been part of the CBC Group , alongside the Czech Sellier & Bellot and the US Magtech . In 2018, the Elisenhütte metalworks had around 290 employees. The company has been part of the energy efficiency network IHK Koblenz I since 2019.

criticism

In 2010, allegations by an authorized signatory and two other executives of the Elisenhütte metalworks were made public, in which they accused the parent company and the CBC Group of violating the War Weapons Control Act . The background is a suspected technology transfer to Brazil, after the employees of the Brazilian parent company in the Elisenhütte metalworks had repeatedly copied drawings, material templates, development protocols and other data. A license for a technology transfer from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) was only available for documents and tools for the production of small-caliber ammunition, for rifle ammunition and for pistol and revolver ammunition. After research and publications in the Spiegel , the management announced that it would file criminal charges against the three employees. In addition, the general manager was sued for defamation. The defamation lawsuit was withdrawn in 2011 and all allegations withdrawn.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2016 sales northdata.de. Accessed August 31, 2020
  2. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek (accessed August 7, 2012)
  3. ↑ MEN is in the black ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 166 kB) Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung from December 11, 2010
  4. ↑ We only supply the good , report on spiegel.de
  5. ↑ Approval from BAFA for technology transfer ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  6. ↑ Spiegel report: MEN apparently wants to file a criminal complaint
  7. ↑ MEN withdraws libel suit

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