Quartz movements group

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Quartz movements group

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Seat Frechen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Robert Lindemann-Berk (partner-managing director)
Number of employees 2389
sales 401.8 million euros
Branch Stones and earth
Website www.quarzwerke.com
As of January 20, 2019

The quartz movement in Frechen

The Quarzwerke Group is a medium-sized family company with German and international locations. It mines mineral raw materials ( quartz , kaolin , feldspar , wollastonite and mica ) and trades in the processed and refined products. The Frechen, Gambach, Haltern, Weferlingen and Hohenbocka plants are owned by Quarzwerke GmbH ; other parts of the group are organized through LL Holding GmbH .

history

All about Frechen

Sand hill at the quartz factory in Frechen
Administration building in Frechen

In 1884, Wilhelm Köhnen and Carl Grosspeter, who originally worked as railway entrepreneurs, began mining a quartz sand deposit in Frechen - Buschbell . After five years, Köhnen left the company and took over a construction company in Essen. Grosspeter took over an additional plant in Großkönigsdorf , the company now bears the company name Sand- und Steinzeugwerke C. Grosspeter GmbH . In the early 1890s, it also produced stoneware for sewerage .

In 1904 the civil engineer August Lindemann founded the Cöln-Frechener Kristallsandwerke mbH , which also developed a quartz sand deposit near Frechen. His son set up a modern sand washing facility there in 1915.

In 1919 the two neighboring plants merged to form Grosspeter Lindemann & Co. KG . In 1922, the group of owners expanded to include the Lenders and Fretter-Pico farming families, who owned large plots of land in the open-cast mining area of ​​the works.

After the early death of Hans Grosspeter (son of the company founder) in 1923, Quarzmahlwerk Frechen GmbH was founded and built a new quartz grinder in Frechen. Otto Lindemann became managing director, he held this position until 1945.

In holders

In 1883 the entrepreneurs Hilfenberg and Miesem from Dülmen built a steam brick factory between Sythen and Hausdülmen , but the raw material from the clay deposits there was quickly exhausted. After only three years, people turned around and concentrated on mining the quartz sands below.

In 1896, Rheinische Sandwerke AG from Düsseldorf bought the sand pits. In 1914 they were sold on to the Kükenhöher company .

Merger and further history

In 1924, Lindemann founded the subsidiary Rheinische Bau- und Cristallsandwerke GmbH . This took over the company Kükenhöher and with it the sand pits in the north of Haltern .

In 1936, the company built another quartz grinder, this time in the port of Neuss , in order to be able to use the waterways as a means of transport. The main buyer for the cleaning grains was the Henkel company with the abrasive Ata.

In 1944 the company name changed to Quarzwerke GmbH , and Otto Lindemann designed the logo, which is still used today.

After the Second World War , the partially destroyed factories in Frechen, Haltern and Neuss were rebuilt. Grandchildren and other family members took on tasks in the company. Together with the Belgian partner company Sablières et Carrieères Réunies (SCR for short), plants were set up in Sibelco (Belgium) and Sifraco (France) as well as in Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the USA.

In addition to the ground products, from 1958 quartz sand coated with synthetic resins (for the croning process in foundries) and from 1966 also surface-treated fillers were added to the product portfolio. In 1965 the company parted with stoneware production. In 1970 Quarzwerke and SCR acquired the Jan de Poorter company in the Netherlands, which enabled them to offer the processing of imported minerals to their customers. In 1971 Quarzwerke GmbH was founded in Austria.

In 1976 the Quarzwerke Group and SCR-Sibelco reorganized their business units. The Quarzwerke handed over the previously jointly managed southern and western European subsidiaries to SCR and received a stake in SCR itself.

From 1985 the Quarzwerke Group built up its own transport fleet, from 1987 new warehouses were built in Mannheim, Stuttgart and Wertheim.

Monte Kaolino at the Hirschau site

In 1990, Robert Lindemann-Berk became the fourth generation to join the family business. From 1991, second plants were set up in the new federal states, initially in Weferlingen and Hohenbocka . From 1992 plants in other Eastern European countries followed, including in the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia.

With the purchase of the Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick in 1995, the product portfolio was expanded to include the raw materials kaolin and feldspar.

In 2006 there was another major restructuring of the company's shares. The Grosspeter family left, the holdings in the USA and other non-strategic areas were given up. Robert Lindemann-Berk continued to be the managing partner, followed by Otto Hieber (since 1993 managing director of the Amberger Kaolinwerke) as well as Jens-Uwe Klemens and Paul Páez-Maletz.

Quartz works Witterschlick

The quartz factories continued to expand, in 2007 divisions in Ukraine and Russia were added. In 2008, the group took over the open pit mine for quartz gravel and sand with a processing plant in Witterschlick from an insolvency administrator .

In 2013 the Bulgarian company Kaolin EAD became part of the Quarzwerke Group.

Companies

The Quarzwerke Group is divided into six divisions based on the markets served (Germany and Austria, Central / Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and the DIY store business) and the materials produced (quartz, feldspar, high-performance fillers and DIY products).

Quartz factories are located in Germany ( Frechen , Gambach , Haltern am See , Hirschau / Schnaittenbach and Hohenbocka , Weferlingen and Witterschlick ), Austria ( Melk and St. Georgen an der Gusen ), Poland ( Biała Góra (near Tomaszów Mazowiecki ) and Osiecznica ), Czech Republic ( Provodín ), Slovakia ( Šajdíkove Humence ) and in Russia ( Balascheika and "Wostotschnyj" near Ulyanovsk ). There are kaolin plants in Germany ( Caminau , Hirschau / Schnaittenbach and Kemmlitz ), Poland ( Nowogrodziec ) and the Ukraine ( Hluchiwzi ). The feldspar plants are concentrated in Germany (Hirschau / Schnaittenbach) and Austria (Melk and St. Georgen).

The group of companies includes the German Quarzwerke GmbH, Quarzwerke Österreich GmbH, Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick GmbH & Co. KG and Caminauer Kaolinwerk GmbH . There are further subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia. The Quarzwerke Group also includes the factories of Kaolin EAD in Bulgaria and Jugokaolin in Serbia.

The Quarzwerke Group's customers come from the construction chemicals and construction industry , paints and varnishes, filter and colored sands, foundries, glass, ceramics and plastics, pharmaceuticals, and paper. Sports and leisure sand are also offered. Quartz (wet and dry sand, quartz flour), kaolin (as granulate, slurry , ground material or chamotte as well as raw kaolin), feldspar (especially low-iron potassium feldspar) and refined fillers (besides quartz also wollastonite , cristobalite , nepheline syenite , mica) are sold and aluminum trihydrate ).

The company is committed to nature conservation and social issues. It supports the Center of Excellence for Natural Sciences and Environmental Protection (LNU) at the Frechen location, which supports particularly interested and talented students in the field of natural sciences. In Haltern am See, Quarzwerke GmbH participates in the Silbersee working group , a public-private partnership with the city of Haltern, the Recklinghausen district and the Hohe Mark - Westmünsterland nature reserve . Recreational sites and nature reserves are developed from the silver lakes created by opencast mining .

In 2017, the group employed around 3,700 people.

The branch in Haltern is part of the Route of Industrial Culture, themed route Industrial Culture on the Lippe .

  • Vorsee in the Haltern quartz factory

  • Special pipes for transporting the sand-water mixture

  • Opencast mine at Silbersee II , at the back a bathing beach, front left pipeline to compensate for the water level

  • Sythen open-cast mine in the Silbersee

  • Trucks from our own vehicle fleet

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Quarzwerke Frechen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files