Rauschert group

Paul Rauschert GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1898
Seat	Scheßlitz , Germany
management	Roland Paul Rauschert & Dr. Richard Metzler, managing partner
Number of employees	1,250 (2018)
sales	120 million euros (2018)
Branch	Technical ceramics, plastic molded parts, ignition components, textile machine components, energy and solar technology, plant engineering
Website	www.rauschert.com
As of July 10, 2019

The Paul Rauschert GmbH & Co. KG is a manufacturer and developer of components and systems of technical ceramics , engineering plastics, hybrid components and complete function modules with an emphasis in the areas of mechanical engineering and energy. The products are mainly used in the textile industry, electrical engineering, heating systems and heating technology, automotive engineering, household appliances and medical technology. Since 2009 the company has also been active in energy and solar technology as well as in plant construction. The company's headquarters are in the Upper Franconian / South Thuringian border region with headquarters in Scheßlitz and the Heinersdorf, Pressig, Veilsdorf, Steinbach am Wald and Oberbettingen plants in the Vulkaneifel.

Subsidiaries are located in Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, USA, Russia, China, Taiwan, Japan, as well as in India and Mexico.

The company is independent and is family-owned, now in the fourth generation.

The company is a member of the Association of the Ceramic Industry (VKI), Bayern Innovativ and IZK Kronach.

history

From the company's foundation to 1928

The development of electrical engineering began in 1866 with the invention of the dynamo machine by Werner von Siemens . Paul Rauschert senior, a trained milling specialist from the Mark Brandenburg region, recognized this and founded a factory for the production of electrical porcelain on July 1, 1898 in Hüttengrund / Thuringia. In 1904 Rauschert operated three round furnaces and, with 150 employees, manufactured insulators for overhead lines, but also beer bottle caps and furniture knobs. On the company's 25th anniversary in 1923, the 65-year-old founder owned a group of companies. He had taken over other businesses in the Kronach district and expanded factories. The product range had expanded to include lighting porcelain (smoke catchers for gas lamps), thread guides, accumulator porcelain, anchoring eggs and a large number of small everyday items. In 1924 Paul Rauschert jun. and his younger brother Egon Rauschert took over the management. Rauschert had 2,200 employees in 1928. Steatite and pyrolite (cordierite) completed the production program.

Paul Rauschert senior died in 1929. The company was hit hard by the global economic crisis. In 1931/32 Rauschert temporarily had only 60 employees. After the war , the remaining plants in Pressig and Steinbach am Wald recovered.

Diversification and internationalization

In 1967 the product range was expanded to include plastic injection molding in Oberbettingen. With Rauschert Portuguesa, the first foreign branch was established in Portugal in 1973 . In 1978 the production of thread guides made of aluminum oxide from Friedrichsfeld (Degussit) was purchased. In 1996 Rauschert acquired the Veilsdorf monastery porcelain factory in Thuringia. In addition, the Czech Rauschert sro was established in Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald). In 1997, Rauschert took over the former Silesian Rauschert plant in Erdmannsdorf , now Rauschert Myslakowice, Poland.

In 1998 a new steatite production facility was set up in Heinersdorf / Thuringia. In 2002, Rauschert Espana was created with the purchase of a ceramic factory in Barcelona . In the same year, the manufacture of ceramic components (PTC ceramics) began in Hermsdorf. In 2003, with the founding of Rauschert Italia, the presence in southern Europe was expanded. From 2003 to 2005, the company was founded in China (Shanghai), India (Pondicherry) and Mexico (Aguascalientes). In 2006, Inopor was founded as a supplier for ceramic filtration. The process engineering division is sold in the same year. Today's RVT Process Equipment GmbH emerges from this. In 2009 the new business areas "Components and assemblies", "Engineering" and "Rauschert Solar" were founded. Branches followed, from 2013–2018 in the USA, Japan, Taiwan and Hungary. Today Rauschert is a global company with locations in 14 countries.

Products

Research, development, high-tech products

In the field of technical ceramics , the company manufactures u. a. complex components for textile machines, fuse bodies and insulators for electrical and power engineering, furnace construction ceramics, heating conductor supports, heating elements and glow igniters, pump components and ceramic coatings. The main areas of application of the engineering plastics sector are in the automotive and household appliances sectors. Here Rauschert has processing options for high-performance plastics and high-temperature plastics, such as B. PEEK . The processing takes place by means of injection molding . Using insert technology and various overmolding techniques, hybrid components consisting of ceramic, metal and plastic components can be produced. Other Rauschert products include: a. Ignition components for gas, oil and solid fuel burners, pellet igniters, glow igniter, ceramic heating elements, filtration elements for liquid filtration (nanofiltration), robot and automation technology (measuring and sorting systems, handling devices) and decentralized energy management systems. Rauschert is also active in the machine trade.

The company carries out a large number of funded development projects and cooperates with leading scientific institutions, in particular the Fraunhofer Society.

Materials

• Aluminum oxide (RAPOX, RAPAL) 90% - 99.99%
• Aluminum titanate
• ATZ (alumina toughened zirconia)
• Zirconium oxide
• ZTA (Zirconia toughened alumina, RAPAL 200AZ)
• Magnesium oxide
• Titanium oxide
• Silicon carbide
• Silicon nitride (specialty electrically conductive Si ₃ N ₄ )
• Cordierite (pyrolite)
• steatite
• porcelain
• Zirconium silicate
• a wide range of plastic materials, especially high-performance and high-temperature plastics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://rauschert.com/de/unternehmen/die-firmengeschichte.html
2. ↑ http://www.rvtpe.com/unternehmen/
3. ^ Rauschert group of companies - Rauschert GmbH. Retrieved July 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ http://rauschert.com/de/produkte/technische-keramik.html
5. ↑ Toolmaking, devices & systems - Rauschert GmbH. Retrieved July 11, 2019 . 
6. ↑ http://rauschert.com/de/produkte/kunststoff-formteile.html