NAGEMA

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From 1948 to 1990, NAGEMA (also Nagema) was the acronym for a merger of mechanical engineering companies with headquarters in Dresden . The abbreviation stands for food (Na) and luxury food ( ge) mechanical engineering (ma) . The parent company of the NAGEMA combine (1970 to 1990) was VEB Schokopack Dresden (1970 to 1972) and from 1972 VEB Verpackungsmaschinenbau Dresden .

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The Kombinat employed on 31 December 1989 about 21,000 employees generated a commodity production in GDR domestic prices of 1.5 billion marks (without commodity production of the industrial plant construction) exporting to the socialist economic area of 953 million currency Mark , after the capitalist economic territory 57 million Value date equivalent, VGW (reduced by repayments and value date assignments). The balance sheet profit as of December 31, 1989 was 642 million marks (operating result) and the balance sheet total was 3.9 billion marks, each GDR marks.

founding

The company was derived from the legal successor of the former Gäbel Maschinen-Fabrik Dresden- Mockritz , it was registered as a company and association symbol. The trade association was founded with the main administration of the Ministry for the Saxon operations of the branch and constituted itself as VVB Nagema , as a zonal organization in 1948 with entry in the HR Dresden.

Restructuring

In 1970, VVB Nagema was transformed into the Nagema combine in the GDR, with a considerable loss of substance and the transfer of businesses to the advanced agricultural machinery combine in Neustadt and Impulsa Elsterwerda . In 1976 the Ascobloc combine was incorporated into the Nagema combine ( catering technology and meat processing machines ), and in 1984 the mill construction , milk processing and bakery engineering companies were reintegrated from the Progress Combine . Rolf Grupe had been director of the combine since 1970, director general since 1984, later provisional chairman of the board until 1991.

During this period, several new plants were built: Packaging machine construction Dresden- Reick , food goods machine construction Neubrandenburg , foundry Spremberg , also the following partial new buildings: Kyffhäuserhütte Artern , Mafa Heidenau , MTW Kamenz u. a.

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Nagema was the leading company for packaging machines in the RGW and without competition for cocoa and chocolate machines (RGW, mechanical engineering, section 14). In June 1990 the Kombinat was converted into a stock corporation according to the regulations at the time, and from December 1990 the Chairman of the Supervisory Board was Dr. Wilhelm Scheider (formerly Krupp ). Significant establishments were

Important products

Nagema's product range included packaging machines of all kinds, which were intended for the Comecon countries but also for the NSW . Nagema innovations could be seen regularly at the Leipzig trade fair .

In detail, machines for hard and soft caramel were manufactured in the main plant in Dresden with an output of up to 1500 pieces per minute and put together into lines for group packaging ( HM), cardboard packaging (SF) and palletizing . Biscuit and rusk packaging machines were also manufactured here and delivered to Brandt and Bahlsen , among others . Machines for multipurpose piece goods packaging went to Weldotron (USA). In addition, machines for milk packaging, butter packaging and block bags for bulk goods such as sugar, flour, tea or cocoa were offered, but they increasingly overwhelmed the company.

The subsidiary Mafa Heidenau delivered cocoa presses worldwide, including kascho to West Berlin, Turkey and South America . Further conversion systems for were chocolate shells and chocolate enrobing machines Chocolate machinery Wernigerode , wafer baking facilities at Rapido Radebeul and large flour mills (for example for Arab countries) together with rolling chair , Plansichter and semolina polishing machines in the mill construction Dresden or Wittenberg made.

Another product sector concerned beverage filling machines from Magdeburg with a performance of the top products of up to 48,000 bottles per hour and the associated labeling . In addition, bottle washing machines were built in Gera and the so-called “drying line” (single bottle transport system, palletizer and crate packing machine) at NGMG Neubrandenburg . Meat processing machines also came from there.

The Kyffhäuserhütte Artern specialized in a range for milk processing. These included, for example, milk and oil separators with a nominal output of up to 25,000 liters per hour, butter makers and plate heat exchangers . In addition, special ovens were made here for baking bread and rolls.

Many of these products were no longer competitive after the political change , because the construction of the machines did not contain food-grade materials ( e.g. stainless steel , PTFE , perfluorinated rubber ) due to a lack of availability and electronic controls were missing or were not state-of-the-art.

Exceptional products

Due to structural changes, Nagema also included other companies that otherwise had no connection with packaging machine construction. For example, field kitchens were built in a company in Cossebaude and a. in Iraq delivered. Another company in Neustadt (Orla) manufactured border fortifications for the GDR. The secret development of a system for the “dosing of components for nuclear fuel rods and for the packaging and internal transport of nuclear fuel rods” for the Dubna nuclear research center is also considered exotic . In Wernigerode , the VEB chocolate processing machines produced the only skateboard produced in the GDR, the Germina Speeder, from 1986 .

Nagema also supported other GDR companies with problems in their production: for example, Wägetechnik Rapido in Radebeul built 400 ATMs for Robotron .

Successor company

Nagema itself has no direct successor in its entirety today. After 1990, important companies broke away from the holding company. For example, Theegarten-Pactec , Kyffhäuser Maschinenfabrik Artern , Nematec , Maschinen- und Mühlenbau Wittenberg , ascobloc Gastro-Gerätebau , Hebenstreit-Rapido GmbH Radebeul, J & P Maschinenbau GmbH, Toss GmbH & Co.KG Packaging Systems Freital , emerged from earlier NAGEMA operations . Kist Maschinenbau GmbH and the engineering office for packaging IKA Institute.

More information about Nagema

Michael Hiller has documented the data of the 1989 affiliated companies in company sheets. Reinhard Balzk dealt with a chronicle on the history of Nagema. As part of a project on the industrial history of Dresden, a contribution to the history of the combine and the "parent company" VMB Dresden was made.

A first analysis / prognosis was drawn up in 1961 under the heading “Economics of the industrial sector”. The literature and archive research continues to include: performance indicators , goods production , export , balance sheet values, copies of the company's founding in 1948, minutes of the last supervisory board meeting in 1997, the final balance sheet of the combine as of December 31, 1989, a so-called management list and the registration of the logo with the patent office Munich .

Web links

Commons : NAGEMA  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Form 069: SHstA and SAD archived in copies.
  2. ↑ Manfred Woelk: Industrial History, Part 8 - Schokopack und Schwabbelhülle ( Memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), in: Sächsische Zeitung , February 16, 2006
  3. ↑ Reinhard Balzk and Fritz King, City Archives Dresden and Saxon. Main State Archives
  4. ↑ Manfred Woelk and Reinhard Balzk, city archives Dresden and Saxon. Main State Archives
  5. ↑ R. Balzk: Stadtarchiv Dresden