Monta tape factory

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monta Klebebandwerk GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1855
Seat Immenstadt in the Allgäu
management Roy Gibson
Number of employees 130
sales EUR 47.7 million
Branch Packaging means
Website http://www.monta.de/
As of December 31, 2016

Factory premises in Immenstadt

Today's monta Klebebandwerk GmbH is a medium-sized manufacturer of packaging tapes based in Immenstadt im Allgäu . The company emerged from the Immenstadt mechanical twine factory founded in 1855 , which was the most important company in Immenstadt in the 19th century.

Company history

Mechanical twine factory in Immenstadt

Like many other Allgäu residents, Joseph Jakob Probst , who comes from an established merchant family in Kaufbeur , saw better economic development opportunities in America after the defeated revolution of 1848 . After a stay of several years, he came back from there for a short time and met "Josef Franz Eichele" in Immenstadt, who ran a small axle forge at the exit of the Steigbach valley , which included a larger property . Eichele impressed Probst with his extensive technical knowledge and entrepreneurial ambition so much that he gave up his plans for America. After a detailed examination, the two founded the company "Holzhey, Eichele & Co." on May 13, 1855 with the founding members Carl Joseph Holzhey (? –1881), factory owner in Schwabmünchen and JJ Probst's son-in-law, Josef Franz Eichele (1809–1876), Joseph Jakob Probst (1788–1859) businessman in Kaufbeuren, his sons Adolph (1828–1907) and Julius Probst and the son-in-law and railway pioneer Friedrich Ritter von Lössl from Bamberg. Pp. 8-9

Decisive for the choice of Immenstadt im Allgäu as the location for the new factory for the industrial production of twine was the sufficient available hydropower of the Steigbach , the railway connection to the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn, which was built up to 1854, the proximity of the Italian hemp cultivation as well as sufficient available labor . Friedrich Ritter von Lössl was in charge of the planning and construction of the extensive factory .

In 1856, the mechanical string factory in Immenstadt started operations as the first facility of its kind in Germany. The technical know-how came from England, the required raw material hemp was delivered by rail from Italy and Russia. A market first had to be created for the cords, ropes and threads produced. Thanks to intensive advertising, this was achieved quickly and successfully, as numerous awards and documents from the period prove. The products were particularly in demand for ship equipment. Jakob Probst died in 1859 and Adolph Probst ran the company alone from then on. As early as 1866, as part of a first expansion, a separate gas works for lighting was set up and expanded in 1874.

After his training and a stay in England, Edmund Probst, who had been a silent partner since 1855, joined the management of the company in July 1870. In the following years, the factory was expanded by the two brothers and, from 1880, a hydropower plant with three high-pressure turbines and a 1062 m long downpipe was built on the factory premises . The first company apartments were built around the plant from 1871, the Marienheim for young workers in 1875 and a factory owner's villa in 1882 . In 1880 the mechanical twine factory in Immenstadt received a silver medal at the world exhibition in Melbourne . In 1895 Adolph Probst left the management. In 1897 the Hofmühle Immenstadt was bought, converted into a yarn bleaching facility and additionally expanded to include a turbine building for a water turbine for power supply. Around 1900 the mechanical twine factory in Immenstadt produced around 3,100 tons of yarn annually and exported around the world. Adolph Probst died in 1908, Edmund Probst in 1918.

Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG

With the Mechanische Seilerwarenfabrik AG in Füssen , founded in 1861, a competitor had arisen which, as early as 1912, had 50% more production and twice as much capital compared to the Immenstadt twine factory. As early as 1893, Adolph Probst had tried to initiate negotiations about cooperation - but to no avail. After the First World War , negotiations were resumed and in March 1920 led to the merger of the two companies to form Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG with headquarters in Füssen. The Immenstadt plant then worked under its own directors and administrative units. The joint venture had a combined market share of around 50% and developed into the largest German manufacturer of hemp products and string.

After the Second World War , Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG was restructured due to the collapsing market for hemp products and in 1964 a production facility for plastic products (hollow bodies and bottles) was built in the Immenstadt plant. In 1967 a coating system for textile-like fabrics laid the foundation for the production of self-adhesive packaging tapes. Major shareholders at the time were the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank and the Wagner family.

In 1969 the Augsburg-based building materials dealer Hans Glöggler took over the majority of shares in Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt with a loan of DM 18 million , including from the previous shareholders, in order to primarily sell the company's real estate assets in the following years. From 1973 the entire company concentrated its chemical engineering production in Immenstadt. Due to the crises in the construction and textile industry and risky business of the investor, the Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt had to file for bankruptcy in 1976 . In 1978 the Frankfurt building materials group Braas & Co. acquired the plant in Immenstadt from the bankruptcy estate. The remaining part of the company was taken over by the employees and continued as Füssener Textil AG. A major fire at the beginning of 1979 gave rise to modernization and expansion of the plant.

Monta Klebebandwerk GmbH

In 1983 a German-Swiss group of companies took over the Immenstadt-based company and continued to run it under the name monta Klebebandwerk GmbH . Managing director Johann Amoser concentrated the product range on adhesive tapes for packaging and closing cardboard boxes. When Amoser sold monta to 3M Deutschland GmbH in 1990 for reasons of age , his nephew of the same name switched to the 3M parent company and restructured the European purchasing department there.

In 1997 monta was facing closure again. The owner 3M Deutschland GmbH no longer saw the solvent-based self-adhesive packaging tape as a strategic product and transferred the shares to the previous managing director and the former technical director of "monta Klebebandwerk GmbH". In 2005, Johann Amoser jun. sole managing partner.

In April 2015, a major fire destroyed the building and the production facilities of the adhesive tape cutting shop. A year after the fire, a new tape tailoring shop went into operation. At the end of 2016, Peter Hantl became managing director of the Monta group of companies. In December 2018, Roy Gibson took over sole management.

Companies

Monta Klebebandwerk GmbH produces and sells self-adhesive packaging tapes with an adhesive made from rubber, resin and additives at three locations in Germany, Hungary and Romania.

Company structure:

  • monta Klebebandwerk GmbH Immenstadt
    • Fix Pack SRL Târgu Mures, Romania
    • Fix Pack Kft Budaörs, Hungary

Historical traces

  • Gas lighting : During a factory expansion in 1864, the Probst brothers decided to introduce gas lighting. They tried in vain to get the city and the nearby train station to participate. The gasworks opened in the winter of 1866 and was enlarged in 1874. Together with a former hard coal gas plant that had been converted to oil gas, 450 flames could be supplied, 40 of which illuminated courtyards, streets and company houses, the rest illuminated the factory rooms.
  • Upper and Lower Colony : Workers' settlement , built between 1871 and 1894 by the Immenstadt mechanical twine factory, is now a listed building.
  • Marienheim : Dormitory built in 1875 by the plant management in Edmund-Probst-Straße.
  • Director's villa Adolph-Probst-Straße 9: Former. Adolph Probst's director's villa, late Classicist, built around 1862/63 and is a listed building.
  • Villa Edelweiß Adolph-Probst-Straße 6: The factory owner's villa, built in 1882 by Edmund Probst on the company premises according to plans by the architect Jean Keller , now houses the municipal music school and is a listed building .
  • Steigbachwerk Gottesackerstraße 17: The hydroelectric power station built in 1880 delivered 270 kW to power the mechanical string factory in Immenstadt right from the start. It is one of the oldest turbine systems and, with a head of 175 m, it is the first high-pressure system in Bavaria. The three high-pressure turbines with 100, 350 and 450 hp, manufactured by the company Johann Jakob Rieter und Komp. From Winterthur based on calculations by Moritz Schröter , received a lot of attention from experts in their time. The power plant still exists today.
  • Böhmerviertel Edmund-Probst-Straße 9-20: Workers' settlement, built between 1897 and 1909 by the Immenstadt mechanical twine factory, is now a listed building.
  • Hofmühle Immenstadt An der Aach 14: Former hydropower plant and bleaching plant of the mechanical twine factory in Immenstadt from 1767 is now a museum and is a listed building. There is an exhibition on the company's history here. The turbine building from 1897 over the Konstanzer Ach, which can still be seen on the aerial photo from 1916, is no longer there today.
  • Edmund-Probst-Haus : The refuge of the Allgäu-Immenstadt section of the German Alpine Club on the Nebelhorn in the Allgäu Alps was named after company founder Edmund Probst in 1918. There is also Edmund-Probst-Straße in Immenstadt.
  • Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG shares are traded among collectors.
  • A wagon of the mechanical twine factory Immenstadt from the Royal Bavarian State Railways is offered today as an H0 model (No.:24098-05) by the Trix company .

  • Villa Edelweiß by Edmund Probst

  • Adolph Probst's director's villa

  • Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt

  • Mechanical twine factory

  • Immenstadt colony

  • Aerial photograph 1916, factory, villa and workers' housing of the twine factory

  • Share dated April 28, 1922

Web links

literature

  • Viktoria Fischer, Hans Birling: Surrounded everyday life; History of the Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG 1857-1957 . Hoppenstedts Wirtschafts-Archiv GmbH, Darmstadt.
  • K. Strasser (Ed.): The long way into the future. From string to packaging robot. Hagenauer + Denk KG. Verlag J. Eberl, Immenstadt im Allgäu 2003, ISBN 3-920269-18-7
  • Commemorative publication to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Mech. String factory Immenstadt Selbstverlag, Immenstadt 1882
  • Commemorative publication to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mechanical twine factory Immenstadt in Immenstadt 1857-1907 Eckert & Pflug, Leipzig 1907
  • Marita Krauss (ed.): The Bavarian commercial councils. A German business elite from 1880 to 1928 , Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-216-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c consolidated financial statements in the Federal Gazette
  2. ^ Benno Riechelmann, Franz Ruckert, Hans Boerger: The hemp spinning and rope manufacture in Germany - Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt AG In: Economic and administrative studies with special consideration of Bavaria . Deichert, 1926, p. 83-90 ( google.de ).
  3. ↑ Marita Krauss (Ed.): The Bavarian Commerce Councils: A German business elite from 1880 to 1928 . Volk Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-216-2 , pp. 599 .
  4. ↑ see Lit Umgarnter everyday life; The first 100 years
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Immenstadt in the industrial age . In: Museum Hofmühle Immenstadt (ed.): Teachers' handout from craft to industry . S. 15th ff . ( museum-hofmuehle.de ).
  6. ↑ Martin Gschwandtner: Friedrich Ritter von Lössl (1817 - 1907) - tireless technology pioneer, visionary, inventor and great-grandfather . Grin Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-56700-3 , pp. 17–18 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ A b Albert Gieseler: Mechanical twine factory Immenstadt. In: power and steam engines. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  8. ^ A b c Albert Gieseler: Hanfwerke Füssen-Immenstadt, Immenstadt factory in front of Mechanical twine factory. In: power and steam engines. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ R. Vogel (Ed.): Immenstadt im Allgäu. Landscape, history, society, economy, cultural and religious life over the course of the century . Verlag J. Eberl, Immenstadt im Allgäu 1996, ISBN 3-920269-00-4 , p. 355 .
  10. ↑ a b : The happy tightrope walker. In: The time. March 16, 1979. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ The Glöggler Empire, Germany's largest textile group, broke up. In: Der Spiegel . January 19, 1976. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Whoever has Deutsche Bank as an enemy ... In: Die Zeit . October 1, 1976, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b Fire in the monta adhesive tape factory in Immenstadt April 2015. In: HDI Advisor Information for Decision Makers, No. 4, 2016. Accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b c d e Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .
  15. ^ Heinrich Henne: The water wheels and turbines - their calculation and construction . Reprint 2012 edition. Unikum Verlag, 1897, ISBN 978-3-8457-4455-1 , p. 219 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  16. ↑ JJ Reiser: 100 HP turbine for the electrical lighting of the mechanical string factory in Immenstadt. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . 1888 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  17. ^ Martin Popp: Wasserkraftwerke, Chronological Development in Bavaria 1871-1900. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  18. ^ Bavarian goods for everyone . In: Trix Modelleisenbahn GmbH & Co. KG (Ed.): Trix catalog . 2009, p. 24 ( docplayer.org ).

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '20.4 "  N , 10 ° 12' 57.3"  E