Miba AG

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Miba AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1927
Seat Laakirchen , AustriaAustriaAustria 
management F. Peter Mitterbauer (CEO)
Number of employees 7,800
sales € 985 million
Branch Automotive supplier
Website www.miba.com
As of January 31, 2018

The Miba AG is a family owned industrial and technology company that was founded in 1927 in Laakirchen (Upper Austria). The company produces plain bearings , friction linings , sintered molded parts and coatings. Miba also produces passive electronic components such as resistors and heat dissipation systems. a. are required in energy transmission systems. In addition, the company develops and produces special machines for the precise mechanical processing of large components. Miba employs around 7,800 people; the group has 29 locations in eleven countries. Sales in the 2018/19 financial year amounted to 985 million euros.

history

The company was founded in 1927 by Franz Mitterbauer as a repair and production workshop for engines . Since 1949 plain bearings have also been manufactured, which are required in shipbuilding , for example , and in 1963 the production of sintered molded parts began. In 1975 the manufacture of friction linings ( brake linings ) began. In 1978 the first foreign branch was opened in Germany. In 1983 the company founder died and his son Peter Mitterbauer took over the management. In 1986 the company went public; The stock exchange listing was discontinued in 2015.

In 2013, Peter Mitterbauer handed over the chairmanship of Miba AG to his son Franz-Peter Mitterbauer. Peter Mitterbauer's daughter Therese Niss also works for the company. From 2008 to 2013 she was managing partner of High Tech Coatings GmbH , a division of Miba AG. Since 2013 she has been on the board of Mitterbauer Beteiligungs-AG , the sole owner of Miba AG.

In January 2019 the German Federal Cartel Office prohibited the planned creation of a joint venture with Zollern GmbH & Co. KG , which was supposed to bundle the plain bearing businesses of Miba and Zollern. The companies involved then submitted an application for ministerial approval, which was approved in August 2019. The joint venture has been operational since October 1, 2019 under the industrial leadership of Miba.

Locations

  • Headquarters of the Miba Group: Laakirchen / Upper Austria
  • Locations in Austria: Laakirchen, Vorchdorf, Roitham, Aurachkirchen, Kirchbach, St. Stefan, Ligist
  • Production sites worldwide: Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, USA, China, India and Brazil
  • Sales offices worldwide: France, Germany, Italy, USA, China

Product groups

  • Miba sintered molded parts: components for car engines, transmissions and body & chassis
  • Miba engine plain bearings: half-shells, bushings and thrust rings
  • Miba industrial plain bearings
  • Miba friction linings: friction linings for brakes and clutches
  • Miba power electronics components: electrical resistors and heat sinks
  • Miba special machines
  • Miba coatings: functional component coatings
  • Miba eMobility

Individual evidence

  1. a b [1]
  2. "Miba AG continues to grow". Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
  3. Miba: Investor Relations. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
  4. Upper Austrian news: The Mitterbauer family takes Miba off the stock exchange . Article dated July 14, 2015, accessed October 22, 2017.
  5. diepresse.com: Niss: "The young people let themselves be too much" . Article dated December 17, 2011, accessed October 22, 2017.
  6. ^ Therese Niss: Board member of Mitterbauer Beteiligungs-AG . Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  7. Stuttgarter Zeitung: Longer examination in the Zollern case . Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  8. Stuttgarter Zeitung: Minister of Economic Affairs Altmaier allows controversial merger . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  9. Miba and Zollern start plain bearing joint venture. In: miba.com. October 1, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .