Neumayer Tekfor
| Tekfor Holding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1942 |
| Seat | Hausach , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 1,410 |
| sales | EUR 232.85 million |
| Branch | Automotive industry |
| Website | tekfor.de |
| As of June 30, 2018 | |
The TEKFOR Holding GmbH (eh. Neumayer Tekfor ) is a global automotive supplier with factories in Europe and South and North America. The headquarters are in Hausach and Eschborn / Germany. The manufacturer of engine, transmission and chassis components employs a total of 1,410 people and has a turnover of 232 million euros (as of 2018).
Business areas
The Tekfor Group develops and designs gearboxes, engines, drive trains , special applications and safety nuts for the automotive industry .
Precision parts and applications from Tekfor can be found in cars and trucks from leading European manufacturers. The components are predominantly developed individually with the respective business partners, with Tekfor also taking on the production. Areas of competence are the machining, forming and assembly of parts.
Tekfor also works in the field of e-mobility .
history
The company was founded in 1942 as a machine turning shop. In 1988 the Rotenburger Metallwerke were taken over by FAG, in 1998 the Italian Teksid Umformtechnik by Fiat , and a stake in the Brazilian Böllhoff Neumayer took place .
In 2001 the Neumayer Schmölln plant in Schmölln and the Tekfor plant in Wooster in the United States were founded. Two years later, Tekfor Cologne , a joint venture with Ford , was founded.
In 2005, Amtek Tekfor , a joint venture with Amtek, was founded in New Delhi to open up the Indian market. In the same year, all shares were taken over by Böllhoff Neumayer and the Brazilian parts of the company were restructured to form Neumayer Tekfor Automotive .
From 2005 to May 2013, the company was owned by the investment company Barclays Private Equity, which has operated as Equistone Partners Europe since the end of 2011 .
In 2009 a second joint venture was concluded with Amtek in Pune, India .
In September 2012, the automotive supplier applied for protective shield proceedings at the Offenburg district court in accordance with the requirements of the reformed insolvency law. The management remains in office during the protective shield proceedings and is obliged to work out an insolvency plan for the company within three months. A prerequisite for this form of filing for insolvency is a certificate in which the restructuring is confirmed as "not obviously hopeless".
In 2012 a turnover of around 500 million euros was achieved. The company also employed around 3,300 people worldwide, 1,600 of them in Germany alone.
In March 2013, the company was sold to the Indian Amtek (sales: 1.6 billion US dollars). In addition to patents and land, Amtek primarily acquired the shares in the domestic and foreign subsidiaries. The Standard Chartered Bank acted as the financing bank .
Amtek went bankrupt in 2017. However, the international business of the group, including Neumayer Tekfor, was separated from Amtek before the bankruptcy and placed under a trustee in Singapore under pressure from the financial investor KKR , who had already financed the takeover by Amtek. Since then, Neumayer Tekfor has been able to operate independently again.
Rotenburg metal works
The Rotenburger metal works (RMW) are in Rotenburg an der Fulda ( district Rotenburg ) in northeastern Hesse resident. RMW was founded in 1936 as Rotenburger Metallwerke Rudolf Stirlen GmbH. The field of activity was structural steel construction, followed by cold forging in 1958.
The area of activity in 2009 extends from cold massive forming, machining technology, heat and surface treatment to ready-to-install individual parts and the assembly of complete assemblies.
In the post-war period, Rotenburger Metallwerke produced agricultural machinery as an independent company; But one was also active in general mechanical engineering, in steel construction for industrial halls and in bridge construction, in later times hydraulic units for machine tools were also produced under the umbrella of Frieseke & Hoepfner GmbH, Erlangen . When Frieseke & Hoepfner GmbH and its subsidiary RMW were taken over by FAG in 1980 , the production of bearing housings and other components for the parent company FAG was added. The cold forging was further expanded.
The RMW brand played a locally limited role in rural northern Hesse. There were agricultural tractors , with 2- or 3-cylinder diesel engines MWM equipment carrier (1955), crawler tractors, a 3-point cultivation tiller type AW 8 "field Wolf" and the Henschel -RMW grader type R120 manufactured.
RMW standard tractor program from 1955:
- Type Eder with 12 HP (air-cooled)
- Type Fulda with 15 HP (water-cooled)
- Werra type with 17 hp (air-cooled)
- Lahn type with 18 HP (water-cooled)
- Weser type with 24 HP (air-cooled)
- Type Inn with 25 HP (water-cooled)
- Type Lippe with 40 HP (water-cooled), as a replica largely corresponds to the RS40 from Ensinger
- Type Lech with 60 HP (water-cooled)
The tugs were equipped with different track widths (1250 mm, 1500 mm, 1750 mm). Due to the gear ratios, the speed range from 1.95 km / h to 20 km / h could be used for common tillage in agriculture. The technical equipment of the tractors with differential locks, PTO drive with constant and gear-dependent speed and hydraulic rear power lift for attachments corresponded to the state of the art at the time. Various agricultural attachments were even available from the factory. RMW used a targeted module and purchasing strategy for purchased parts (engines, transmissions, steering, electrics, etc.), so that only a few manufacturing processes, such as B. sheet metal processing and final assembly took place in the Rotenburg plant. Injection pumps, starters and alternators, for example, came ready-to-install from Bosch. The low level of vertical integration, however, meant that the standard tractors of this era were very similar from many suppliers and hardly any brand-specific differentiations were possible.
With the exception of the largest types, Lippe and Lech, the tugs had the RMW logo on the front hood and two elongated radiator grilles, which are not unlike the stylized BMW kidney grille of the BMW automobile type 328.
In addition, caterpillar tractors with 3 and 6 cylinder diesel engines for agriculture or construction were also offered:
- Saar type with 40 hp
- Type Mosel with 60 HP
- Type Nahe with 75 hp
- Main type with 120 hp
- Type Rhein with 150 hp
In addition, forest equipment and machines for the forest sector were produced such. B. the squirrel and chainsaws.
literature
- Wolfgang Gebhardt: German Ackerschlepper: Historical documents from the history of German tractor construction , Motorbuch-Verlag special, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02654-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of June 30, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ Information page with the individual production sites and the addresses of the holding company , accessed on April 14, 2019
- ↑ Tekfor | Driven by Excellence. Accessed December 12, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Auto supplier rescues from Indian owner . In: Handelsblatt , July 31, 2017. Online .
- ^ Ensinger Register , cf. Section RMW type "Lippe" - AS 40 , accessed on March 1, 2017