Piepenbrock pyrotechnics

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Piepenbrock pyrotechnics

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legal form GmbH
founding 1981
Seat Goellheim
management Olaf Piepenbrock
Number of employees 350
sales 22.4 million DM (as of 1998)
Branch Explosives processing industry

Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH was the name of a former company based in Göllheim in the Palatinate . The PPT developed fireworks and pyrotechnic ammunition and had branches in Wuppertal and Oberried on Lake Brienz in Switzerland.

history

Sketch of the former Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik plant in Göllheim / Pfalz; the occupancy of the buildings is roughly the same as in the mid-1990s

The Piepenbrock pyrotechnics GmbH was a former subsidiary of Piepenbrock Service and was based in Göllheim , Ruhweg 21. In 1981 in took Osnabrück -based Piepenbrock services group the pyrotechnic factory F. Feistel KG in Göllheim; whose company founder Fritz Feistel died in 1979 at the age of 49. The company was engaged in the manufacture and development of pyrotechnic ammunition and fireworks . In 1983, the location in Göllheim was expanded to include buildings for production, storage and dispatch in the direction of the bypass road to the east of the previous company premises, making it one of the most modern production facilities for pyrotechnic products in Germany. The expansion created around 80 new jobs, so that the number of employees grew to around 350. In 1988, with the purchase of the pyrotechnical factories Hans Moog - H. Nicolaus in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf, the company name was changed to Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH. In 1989 the traditional fireworks factory Hans Hamberger AG in Oberried am Brienzersee in Switzerland was integrated into Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH. In 1997, a consortium made up of PPT and Nico Pyrotechnik , a member of the Rheinmetall Group, received a major order in Trittau for the production of 150,000 DM55 high-speed smoke cannons for the German armed forces. As a result of this order, a new production line was set up in the eastern area of ​​the Göllheim plant for the production of the infrared covering fog charge at PPT. In 1999, the Piepenbrock group then moved from the business area defense back and sold its plant in Wuppertal, as well as their assets at its Göllheim in an asset deal to the Diehl Stiftung belonging Comet Pyrotechnics Apparatebau GmbH based in Bremerhaven . The site was leased to the Diehl Foundation for ten years. Until the asset deal with Comet GmbH Pyrotechnik Apparatebau in 1999, PPT was the largest employer in the Göllheim community. The graphic opposite shows the different operating areas of the Göllheim plant. Hans Hamberger AG remained in the possession of Piepenbrock after 1999 and was sold to Société Suisse des Explosifs (SSE) at the end of 2012. The company has been trading as Hamberger Swiss Pyrotechnics AG since January 1, 2013 and was relocated to Wimmis in September 2013 .

Fireworks

Logo of the Feistel fireworks brand
Class II rocket from Göllheim production

The special features of the range of fireworks from Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik, which continued the Feistel brand name until 1999, included the self-made rockets , ground blasters such as rubbing heads and cannon strikes, and volcanoes . Up to twelve million rockets a year could be pressed and stapled on the Göllheim production facilities. Hans Hamberger AG in Oberried, which was formerly part of PPT, mainly produced large fireworks items for the Swiss market. These included volcanoes and missiles, as well as hail and avalanche defense missiles.

Military pyrotechnics

As in the times of the company's founder Fritz Feistel, the defense technology product range dominated at PPT. This comprised light and signal ammunition , colored smoke and camouflage fog , fake aircraft targets , irritant ammunition, alarm signals, training ammunition, shock projectiles (known colloquially as stun grenades ), as well as pyromechanical devices such. B. Reef line cutter and detonator. At the location in Oberried, Switzerland, overlaid signal and light ammunition from Swiss stocks was removed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AGEFI , December 25, 2012 Concentration dans le secteur pyrotechnique ( Memento of 15 February 2013 Web archive archive.today )

Web links

literature

  • Wolfgang Buchwald, Feuerzauber - What one can tell about the historical development of the pleasure fireworks in Germany and elsewhere and about the German pyrotechnic manufacturers, Kurt Viebranz Verlag, Schwarzenbeck, 1996
  • Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik GmbH product catalog, published in 1997
  • Product description Smoke Grenade 76 mm IR / RP, launched in 1998