Propane Rhine gas
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Seat | Bruehl (Rhineland) |
| management | Uwe Thomsen, Hubert Peters |
| Number of employees | 200 |
| Branch | energy |
| Website | www.rheingas.de |
Propan Rheingas GmbH & Co. KG (Rheingas) is an energy supply company for liquid gas, electricity and natural gas supply as well as energy technology based in Brühl. The company supplies around 30,000 customers with energy, including private customers as well as industry and commerce. The company's core business is the supply of liquid gas as an energy source . Rheingas is a member of the " German Liquid Gas Association " (DVFG), Berlin.
Company profile
The company is a family business that has been offering energy supply solutions for private and commercial customers in the fourth generation since 1925. As an energy supplier for liquid gas, natural gas and electricity as well as a solution provider in the fields of energy efficiency technology, gas technology and heating construction, the medium-sized group of companies with its headquarters in Brühl (Rhineland) bundles energy technology and energy supply. The Rhineland-based energy supplier and solution provider has been using liquefied gas as an energy source since 1950, making it one of the first providers.
The core tasks of the company are the development of individual system solutions, engineering solutions for energy technologies such as combined heat and power units (CHP), gas heat pumps, micro gas turbines or condensing boilers and advice on the goal of increased energy efficiency.
With more than 200 employees, the Rheingas Group is represented throughout Germany in the sales companies Badische Rheingas GmbH in Lörrach , Rheingas Halle-Saalegas GmbH and Propan Rheingas Cottbus-Spreegas GmbH as well as around 40 regional offices. Other national locations are service centers in Wesel , Dresden , Krakow am See and an energy technology office in Leipzig . International locations are in Austria (Vitalis Handels GmbH, Vienna), the Netherlands (Rijngas BV, HA Dinxperlo) and Poland (BALTYK-GAZ).
history
Josef Kolvenbach, grandfather of the current managing director Uwe Thomsen, founded the company oxygen works Brühl in 1925 , which today bears the name Propan Rheingas GmbH & Co. KG after several mergers . 1950 saw the expansion of the business area to liquid gas. In 1976 Kolvenbach KG was merged with the rhenag Group , and Propan Rheingas GmbH & Co. KG was created . From then on, the focus was on the core business of liquefied gas. 1981 Propan Rheingas merged with Jacobs Propan Mittelrhein in Koblenz. In 1984 RWE-Rheinbraun was accepted as a partner. In the 1990s Propan Rheingas founded sales companies in East Germany. The company also expanded beyond the borders of Germany: In 1993, 50 percent of Baltyk-Gaz was acquired and founded in Poland , and in 1995 75 percent of Rijngas in the Netherlands . Badische Rheingas was founded in 1997. In the following years Propan Rheingas expanded and in 2005 took over ROEBEN GAS in Willich-Anrath and Johannsen Propan in Neumünster in Schleswig-Holstein. The Vitalis Handelsgesellschaft in Vienna, Austria has been part of Rheingas since 2011 . In 1999 Rheingas expanded its product portfolio to include natural gas , in 2002 to include LPG and in 2012 to include electricity .
The propane gas Rhein GmbH & Co. KG is part of the Rhine gas group which also includes the Rheingas Halle-Saale Gas GmbH and the GmbH propane Rheingas Cottbus SpreeGas belong. Today the company is led by the two managing directors Uwe Thomsen and Hubert Peters.
Business areas
The company supplies liquefied natural gas , natural gas and electricity to private and commercial customers. The company supplies a total of 30,000 customers with energy, including 80 percent private customers (24,000) and 20 percent (6,000) customers from industry and commerce.
Private customers
- Liquid gas : Nationwide offer for private households, also in connection with regenerative forms of energy and individual energy use concepts
- Energy technology: Construction of liquid gas tanks in connection with micro-cogeneration units for single-family houses and heating systems.
- Bottled gas : Mobile energy supply for private customers for use in the garden, camping or barbecuing.
- LPG : use of motor vehicles (LPG, Liquefied Petroleum Gas).
- Natural gas : supplying private households.
- Electricity: supply of private households.
Commercial customers
- LPG : LPG tanks for commercial customers. Application for heating and hot water, collective supply for e.g. residential areas or company complexes with several buildings and factories, for load peak coverage for larger amounts of energy that are only required for a limited period of time, process energy primarily for industrial production technology in the form of oxy-fuel technology (combustion of liquefied gas with the addition of oxygen), material heat treatment (heating and flame straightening, flame hardening, heat treatment ovens, protective and carburizing exhaust gases, blowing and melting of glass, directly fired drying systems) or shrinking systems (film welding using liquid gas).
- LPG : Installation of liquid gas tanks at existing gas stations and truck LPG filling stations on company premises and supply of liquid gas tanks at existing gas stations.
- Natural gas : energy provider for business customers.
- Electricity: Power supply for customers from trade and industry.
- Energy technology: Technical solutions for business customers with individual energy supply concepts, such as combined heat and power units (CHP), micro gas turbines, gas heat pumps or condensing technology.
- Bottled gas : Mobile energy supply for customers from trade and industry in the form of fuel and forklift gas.
environmental Protection
According to its own statements, the company pursues the principle of sustainability. The aim of the energy supplier is to protect the environment, to reduce the consumption of resources, to reduce CO 2 emissions and to improve the climate through the production and consumption of liquid gas .
With the RheingasNeutral funding project, Rheingas is supporting the construction of a gas-fired power plant in Gujarat, India, for better infrastructure, climate protection and social equilibrium.
Awards
In 2014, the company was awarded the fairness seal for transparency towards employees, customers, service providers, suppliers and business partners as well as the public and protection of the environment.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report of the Federal Cartel Office on its activities in 1981/1982 as well as on the situation and development in its area of responsibility (Section 50 GWB) . Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ↑ StromAuskunft.de . Retrieved November 4, 2015.