Philips Germany
| Philips GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1926 |
| Seat |
Hamburg , Germany
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| management |
Pieter Vullinghs , Chairman of the Management Board Klaus Baumann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board |
| Number of employees | 4,671 |
| sales | 1.248 billion euros |
| Branch | Electrical engineering |
| Website | www.philips.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Philips GmbH (formerly Philips Germany GmbH ) is a 1926 in Berlin founded subsidiary of the Dutch Philips -Konzerns. It has had its headquarters in Hamburg since 1946 and is one of the ten largest companies in the German electronics industry. Since the last major corporate reform "Vision 2010", Philips GmbH has been divided into the three divisions Health Systems (medical technology), Lighting (light and lamps) and Personal Health (medicine and household electronics) as well as Philips Technologie GmbH research laboratories as part of International Philips Research .
The production of the industrial goods of Philips GmbH takes place with different priorities in the locations Hamburg, Aachen and Böblingen as well as in the branches in Ulm and Herrsching am Ammersee .
Divisions
Health Systems
Philips Health Systems is the former division of Philips Medical Systems , which was transferred to the Healthcare division. Philips Medical Systems in turn emerged in 1987 from the renaming of the Hamburg company CHF Müller , which Philips had acquired on April 17, 1927. The company's founder, Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller , was the manufacturer of the first X-ray tube suitable for medical purposes .
Health Systems' range of products and services includes imaging systems , patient monitoring systems , emergency devices, medical IT and customer service. This division was initially expanded in 1999 to include a system for x-ray tube recycling, which significantly reduced annual CO 2 emissions, and a year later it was equipped with a new and modern high-tech x-ray tube factory. Mainly by purchasing the medical technology division of Agilent Technologies in 2001, Philips was able to massively expand its product range, making it number three on the world market for large devices in the medical technology sector behind General Electric and Siemens Sector Healthcare . Finally, in 2004 the division was supplemented by a new competence center for X-ray generators.
The headquarters and largest production facility of Philips Health Systems is Hamburg, further branches are in Böblingen and Herrsching ( Philips Respironics ).
Personal health
In the Personal Health division with headquarters and production facilities in Hamburg, the productions of the former electrical household appliances and entertainment electronics divisions have been combined as follows:
- Connected displays
- Audio & multimedia
- Home Networks
- Peripherals & Accessories
- Kitchen appliances
- Shaving & Beauty
- Health & Wellness
Locations
Hamburg
Philips' involvement in Hamburg began with the takeover of CHF Müller in 1927. In 1946, the Philips Germany company set up its headquarters in Hamburg and began developing semiconductors in 1951 . Together with the production facility in Böblingen, the company operated semiconductor factories under Philips Semiconductors GmbH Germany , which were then transferred to legally independent companies in the fourth quarter of 2006.
In 1957, after the first founding in Aachen, the second research laboratory, Philips Technologie GmbH Forschungslaboratorien , was founded in Hamburg , which in 1984 enabled the production of the first images of the human head worldwide with the help of magnetic resonance tomography , a diagnostic procedure without X-rays .
After the restructuring in 2010, in addition to the German headquarters of the entire company, the directorates of the three main divisions as well as the Philips Technologie GmbH research laboratories and the production facilities for their healthcare products with a total of around 3,300 employees are currently located in Hamburg .
Aachen
Before the Second World War , Philips opened a radio equipment factory in Aachen in 1934, but had to stop production at the beginning of the war. Immediately after the end of the war, Philips continued its involvement in Aachen and founded a light bulb factory in the Rothe Erde industrial park in 1946. In 1954, Philips started the production of picture tubes in a new part of the plant and one year later set up the Research Center in Aachen, where, among other things, the VHF ferrite antenna and the smallest cellular antenna as well as a system for continuous monitoring of cardiovascular risk patients, which in the clothing can be integrated, has been developed. Since 1963 the Aachen plant had its own glassworks called Granus , which was soon converted to the production of television glass for the neighboring picture tube factory.
After the color television developed by Walter Bruch based on the PAL system was introduced in Germany in 1967, the Philips subsidiary Valvo began series production of color picture tubes in the Aachen plant in the same year .
The glass and picture tube activities at the Aachen location were brought into a joint venture with the Korean concern LG Display in 2000 . Due to the sharp decline in the market for picture tube televisions, LG-Display finally closed the picture tube factory in 2004 and filed for bankruptcy for the glass factory in January 2006. Only three years later, the Philips research center was also dissolved and merged with the research center in Eindhoven .
On the other hand, it has proven to be an advantage that Aachen has already become the main base for research and production of organic light-emitting diodes since 2004. In 2012, this special research area was granted a three-year funding measure from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research amounting to 8.9 million euros as a safeguard. In order to increase the production of OLED at the same time, this area received a grant of 40 million euros from the Philips company headquarters, with which both the Lumiblade Creative Lab and the Lumileds Development Center Aachen could be set up.
Today, around 1,550 people are still employed in Aachen, around 40 of them in OLED research.
Boeblingen
With around 700 employees (including around 200 developers), patient monitoring systems for emergency and intensive care medicine, pregnancy and newborn monitoring, operations and anesthesia, as well as a sepsis early warning system for the global market are developed and produced at the Böblingen location.
Web links
- philips.de/… - Official website of Philips Germany
- philips.de/… - locations and companies of Philips Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b [Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette]
- ↑ Philips Medical Systems (2005)
- ↑ X-ray tube recycling (PDF; 35 kB)
- ↑ Rothe Erde Industrial Park
- ↑ Closure of the picture tube and glass factory in Aachen
- ↑ Philips researchers are looking for a saving straw In: Aachener Nachrichten of October 9, 2009
- ↑ Millions in funding for research by Philips Technologie GmbH in Aachen ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Expansion of the Aachen location to include the NRW Excellence Cluster ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ establishment of Lumiled Development Center in Aachen In: Aachener Zeitung on May 29, 2012
