Odenwald fiberboard factory
| OWA Odenwald fiber plates factory GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
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Amorbach , Germany
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| Number of employees | > 500 |
| sales | 124 million euros |
| Branch | Ceiling systems (mineral tiles and substructures) |
| Website | owa.de |
The Odenwald Faserplattenwerk GmbH (OWA) is a German manufacturer of mineral boards based in Lower Franconia Amorbach (Bayern). OWA manufactures the products and solutions for suspended ceilings itself. OWA ceiling systems are sold internationally through our own sales and investment companies as well as independent trading partners.
In Amorbach , OWA produces up to 100,000 m² of mineral tiles daily on around 200,000 m². The bio-soluble wool ( mineral wool ) required for this , the basic raw material for the panels, is also produced there. Another production facility is located in Shanghai ( People's Republic of China ), where OWA manufactures part of its suspension systems and metal ceilings through a German-Chinese joint venture . OWA opened a third plant - also for construction systems - in Michelstadt (Hesse) in 2012 .
OWA is a family company and is largely owned by the descendants of the founder Friedrich-Karl Rogge. In 2014 the transition to the third generation of founders was initiated.
Company history
On September 24, 1948, Friedrich-Karl Rogge and eight other shareholders and companies founded the Odenwald GmbH wood fiber board in Amorbach . Initially with 60 employees, they produced acoustic and insulation panels on a wood fiber basis. In 1960 Rogge discovered the raw material mineral wool in the USA and acquired a license to manufacture new types of products.
In 1964 the name was changed to Odenwald Faserplattenwerk GmbH and the short name OWA was introduced with today's logo. The term “Odenwald ceiling ” for the drywall acoustic ceilings also originates from this time .
At the end of the 1970s, a plant for in-house production of mineral wool was built. The "black wool" made of basalt shaped the appearance of the OWAcoustic panels for around 20 years . Perlite , another raw material in mineral tiles, has been processed in-house since 1994 .
In 1987 Dirk Rogge, son of the company founder, took over the management together with Rainer A. Wagenmann. Ten years later, production was switched to bio-soluble mineral wool ("white wool"), which is obtained from a mixture of sand, waste glass, dolomite and lime .
In 1999 the glass office tower was built as a new administrative center. In 2012, the architect and designer Hadi Teherani created the 360 ° panorama exhibition “7th Floor” for new ceiling systems. The office building was also certified according to LEED Gold in 2012 .
In 2006 OWA opened a joint venture company with Syntech Taiwan (BUIMA) in Shanghai for the production of OWAconstruct rail systems. The company operates as OWA Metallic New Building Materials Co., Ltd. Since 2010, OWAtecta metal ceiling panels have also been manufactured there according to European standards.
In 2012, OWA opened a second production facility for OWAconstruct rail systems in Michelstadt ( Hessen ). At this point in time, over 470 employees were working for the company.
Memberships
The company is a member of several interest groups and other associations, including a. in the Federal Association of SMEs and in the RAL German Institute for Quality Assurance and Labeling .
Awards
- MIAW Award 2017 for the product Corpus
- Iconic Award 2018 for the OWAconsult® collection
- iF DESIGN AWARD 2018 Category Building Technology
- German Design Award 2018 for the Corpus ceiling system
- reddot Award 2018 "Best of the Best" for the Corpus ceiling system
- bdia selected! 2018 for the Corpus ceiling system
- China Good Design Award for the Corpus ceiling system
Certifications
- Ökoprofit Bavarian Lower Main
- Eurofins Germany
- RAL quality mark
- Blue Angel
- Institute Building & Environment
- Society Pollutant Analytics
- Green Label Australia
- Cradle to Cradle certification *
- TUV certification
- Clean room certification
- The certified products are Cosmos, Sternbild (Constellation), Sandila, New Sandila, Sinfonia (Octave) and Brillianto A.
literature
- Florian Langenscheidt (ed.), Peter May: Lexicon of German family businesses. Gabal-Verlag, Offenbach 2014. ISBN 978-3-86936-530-5 . Pp. 763/764
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Company - OWA. In: owa.de . Accessed January 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Gazette : Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013
- ↑ detail. (No longer available online.) In: newsletter.owa-ceilings.com. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016 ; Retrieved February 20, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ amorbach.de: Honorary Citizen - Amorbach. In: www.amorbach.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Amorbach makes OWA boss an honorary citizen. In: main-echo.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Owa Metallic New Building Materials (Shanghai) Co., Ltd - China metal ceiling panels supplier. In: de.made-in-china.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Amorbach-based company presents recycling concept. In: main-echo.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Owa now also manufactures in Michelstadt. In: main-echo.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
