Opel Vienna
| Opel Vienna GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1963 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Rafal Trojca (Gen.Dir.) |
| Number of employees | 1,850 (December 2015) |
| sales | EUR 280 million (2012) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.opel-wien.at |
| Status: 2017 | |
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '10.9 " N , 16 ° 30' 5.4" E
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The Opel Wien GmbH is an Austrian company , which is owned by the Groupe PSA is. Opel Wien GmbH operates a plant in the Viennese cadastral community of Aspern , in which engines and transmissions for automobiles are produced. It has been in operation since 1982 and employed around 2,145 people at the end of 2011.
history
The Opel Vienna company, as a subsidiary of Opel , has existed since 1963.
On August 23, 1979, the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and GM Austria General Director Helmuth Schimpf signed a contract for the construction of an engine plant in Aspern, for which 9.8 billion schillings were to be invested.
Construction of the plant began in 1980, the production of gearboxes and motors began in 1982. In 1983 the apprentice workshop was opened. In 2000 it was agreed to set up a joint venture between GM and Fiat and in 2001 the plant was integrated into the Fiat-GM Powertrain Group . After the joint venture with Fiat had ended, the name was changed to GM Austria-Powertrain in 2005 .
GM Powertrain has been operating as Opel Vienna since 2011 .
The ISO 50001 certification took place in 2011, and in 2012 the Eco2Cut Award was received for best energy management competence.
Ownership and management
Opel Wien GmbH (as of 2013) was 99.5% owned by General Motors Europe Limited, 0.5% belonged to GM Automotive UK .
General director is (as of 02/2018) Rafal Trojca.
Sales
The turnover for 2012 was estimated at 280 million euros, in 2011 it was 282.8 million and in 2010 it was 265.9 million.
Number of employees
In the opening year around 1,600 people were employed, in 1983 already 2,200. In January 2010 around 1,850 workers were employed.
In December 2011 the company had around 2,145 employees, of which around 230 were salaried employees, around 1,850 manual workers and around 65 were apprentices. In December 2016 there were around 1,850 employees, including around 200 salaried employees, around 1,535 manual workers and around 65 apprentices. 48% came from Vienna, 43% from Lower Austria , 7% from Burgenland and 2% from Styria . The median age was 43 years.
For the period from January 19 to May 8, 2009, in the wake of a car crisis, an application was made to the Public Employment Service to allow 1540 of the 1850 workers to work short-time . Production was stopped for a few days in October 2008, and 150 temporary workers had been cut at the end of November 2008 . Between 350 and 400 employees will be cut by the end of 2019 as production for the five-speed transmission is phased out.
production
The company premises in Aspern are around 600,000 m².
Every second Opel has a gearbox and every third one has an engine from the Vienna plant. 90% of the plant's production goes to the works of the German car manufacturer. Outside Europe, for example, a General Motors plant in Korea was also supplied to build the Mokka model .
transmission
- In 1989 the 2.5 millionth transmission was built.
- In 1999 the ten millionth transmission left the factory.
- In 2011 the 22 millionth transmission was manufactured.
Engines
- In 1982 the production of four-speed transmissions and family 1 engines was started.
- In 1989 the two millionth engine was built.
- In 1993 production was expanded to include F15 gearboxes and cylinder head production.
- In 1997, F17 gearboxes and, instead of Family 1 engines, new Family 0 engines were built.
- In 2002, the production of the F13 gearbox ended and it was decided to build a new six-speed gearbox, which has been in production since 2004.
- In 2007 the engine production record was reached with 1.575 million engines.
- In 2009, production fell to one million engines due to the global economic crisis.
- A new turbo engine has been manufactured since 2010.
In 2011 around 1.55 million engines and transmissions were produced, which almost reached the record of 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b company Opel Wien GmbH in Vienna . Commercial register data Creditreform / firmenabc.at
- ↑ Opel Vienna history , opel-wien.at, July 27 2017th
- ^ General Motors Powertrain becomes Opel Vienna , kurier.at, May 19, 2011.
- ↑ Opel Vienna Management , opel-wien.at, accessed on 9 December 2016th
- ↑ The Austrian Industry Magazine : The top 250 industrial companies in the ranking ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 18, 2013.
- ↑ Own presentation at www.opel-wien.at .
- ↑ The standard: GM plant Aspern expands production , January 28, 2010.
- ↑ Own presentation at www.opel-wien.at .
- ↑ a b Die Presse: GM plant in Aspern: 1540 employees have to work short-time , January 7, 2009.
- ↑ Opel plant: Up to 400 jobs gone. In: wien.ORF.at. March 29, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c own representation of unknown date on http://media.gm.com/ .
- ^ Wiener Zeitung: Long wait for the "Mocha" , May 14, 2013.
- ↑ a b Der Standard: Opel Aspern wants to keep a permanent workforce , April 30, 2012.
