Moog (Wuppertal)

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Moog was a producer of fireworks in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf , which was considered the world market leader for decades.

The quality and the sophisticated technologies of the pyrotechnic products were popular worldwide, so that they were also exported to the United States, Canada and the Middle East. The competition on the world market was not pronounced and Chinese companies were not yet present. An order from 1960 that went to Baghdad was highlighted in the company's history as remarkable . At that time, ten tons of pyrotechnic material were flown to Iraq with a special machine to host a fireworks display .

history

The company was founded during the First World War in 1916 by Wilhelm Moog on the site of the former Carl Lippold fireworks factory. His son Hans Moog joined the company in 1923 and a new factory site was opened. After the Second World War , the company MOOG-NICO was built up very quickly, with Nico in northern Germany and Moog in southern Germany taking over sales. In the mid-1960s, 170 people were employed on the company's own premises in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf ( 51 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 18 ″  E ). Later, the competition from China pushed more and more into the market and Moog struggled with problems.

In 1988, the Wuppertal company MOOG-NICO was bought by the Osnabrück Piepenbrock Group under Klaus Moog, Hans Moog's son , and incorporated into Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH, which was founded in 1981 and is based in Göllheim , Palatinate . The former sister companies now had to compete against each other.

In April 1999, the end for Moog at the Ronsdorf location came to an end. The inventory of fireworks items was taken over by the company Hans Hamberger AG in Switzerland (at that time in Oberried , since 2013 in Spiez ), another company of Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronsdorf through the ages: 1900-1997 ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed May 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtswerkstatt-ronsdorf.de
  2. ↑ W. Buchwald: Magic Fire. Kurt Viebranz Verlag, Schwarzenbek 1996.
  3. ↑ Nathalie Günter: Stoppine, black powder and stars for the fireworks. In: Berner Zeitung from August 1, 2016
  4. ↑ WDR local time from July 15, 2005
  5. ^ Company Moog from Wuppertal - pioneer of the German pyrotechnics industry ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed December 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pyro-constellation.de
  6. ↑ Moog in the Fireworks Wiki, accessed December 2007