Pucaro
| Pucaro Elektro-Isolierstoffe GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1667 |
| Seat | Roigheim |
| management | Hooman Javvi (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 284 |
| sales | 59 million euros |
| Branch | Electrical insulation materials |
| Website | www.pucaro.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The company Pucaro Elektro-Isolierstoffe , which produces pressboard for the electrical industry and employs around 280 people, is the most important employer in the municipality of Roigheim and goes back to a paper mill founded in 1668.
history
The paper mill Jobst Rödter bought the upper grinding mill in Roigheim in 1667 and built a paper mill in the following period . In 1683, Rödter had a watermark with the Ravensburger double tower. The current coat of arms of Roigheim is based on this watermark. After the third generation in the Rödter family, the paper mill passed to Paul Häuser in 1740, who sold the mill to Gabriel Schmidtberger in 1770 for reasons of age. This family owned the mill for almost 100 years. In 1840 the paper mill was explicitly called the paper mill for the first time.
In 1872 Christian Authenrieth, who had founded a factory in 1854, acquired the paper factory in Roigheim. With him, the new industrial technology found its way into the venerable craft business. Until then, hand-made paper was made according to old tradition . External evidence of this change was the construction of a steam boiler house . In 1893 Constantin Authenrieth took over the factory. For almost four decades, Constantin Authenrieth devised structural and mechanical improvements in order to bring high -quality products onto the market under the brand name PUCARO (Pressspan- und Cartonfabrik Roigheim).
In 1929 the son Günther Authenrieth took over the family business. Despite the global economic crisis , war and currency reform, he created healthy economic foundations. He recognized the demands of the time at an early stage by creating the scientific basis for the development of new and improving old products by expanding the laboratories and testing stations, setting up modern machines and thus setting the course for a company with a global reputation. Bernhard Authenrieth successfully continued the company together with his mother Margarethe Arndt-Authenrieth in 1952 after the death of his father.
After more than 130 years of family ownership, the PUCARO factory was sold to ABB Figeholms Bruk in Sweden in 1989. The traditional product name PUCARO became the actual company name. In 1991 the company was split into two business areas: transformer insulation and motor insulation. In 1996 PUCARO was taken over by Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) in Mannheim .
The former Fabrikstrasse in Roigheim has now been renamed Pucarostrasse .
literature
- Karlheinz Englert: From the mill to a company with a worldwide reputation , in this: Roigheim then and now , Roigheim 1994, pp. 209–224.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Gazette: Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2019