Otto Junker

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The Otto Junker GmbH in Lammersdorf , today a district of Simmerath , is a leader engaged in the manufacture of complex industrial furnaces and also in the steel foundry worldwide.

In 2005 the company employed around 800 people worldwide, 500 of them at the Lammersdorf location, and achieved sales of around 120 million euros.

history

The company was founded in 1924. The company's roots lie in the invention of a water-cooled mold for the NE - semis industry by Andreas Junker in 1923. However, this died a little later, so that the company in 1924 still a student at Otto Junker, then RWTH Aachen was founded. The company achieved rapid growth through the development and production of melting furnaces and heat treatment systems . Since 1940 furnaces and also developed alloys have been tested in the company's own test foundry. When the sole owner EH Otto Junker died childless in 1982, the company became the property of the Otto Junker Foundation, founded in 1970. The sole beneficiary of the foundation is RWTH Aachen.

literature

  • Marc Engels: Inventor and innovator in the Eifel: Otto Junker (1900–1982). In: Paul Thomes, Peter M. Quadflieg (ed.): Entrepreneurs in the Aachen region - between the Maas and the Rhine. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-13107-7 , pp. 189–205.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  2. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/region/bei-u-booten-wird-auf-die-eifel-gebaut-1.904162
  3. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/eifel/junker-entlaesst-personalabbau-serviceausbau-bald-ohne-giesserei-1.1788193
  4. ^ Deutsche Mittelstandsberatung: quarterly information 1st quarter 2006 (PDF; 165 kB); Retrieved Oct. 5, 2010
  5. ↑ http://www.otto-junker.de/de/wir-ueber-uns/historie/
  6. ↑ Heike Freimann: "You don't get green bananas here". In: VDI news . No. 12, March 22, 2013, ISSN  0042-1758 , article in the supplement Weltmeistermagazin

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 12 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 13.5 ″  E