Rhine limestone
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Wuelfrath , Germany |
| management | Philipp Niemann |
| Number of employees | 1,200 (2019) |
| sales | € 400.14 million (2019) |
| Branch | Building materials |
| Website | www.Lhoist.de |
Lhoist Germany Rheinkalk GmbH is a group of companies of the Belgian Lhoist Group , the world's largest manufacturer of lime and dolomite products. The company is based in Wülfrath in the Düsseldorf administrative region . The Flandersbach plant is also located here .
history
The RWTH Kalkwerke AG (later RGA lime AG) was established in 1887 by Wilhelm Schuller , Anton Winter and the union Maximilian founded. In 1993 the Belgian Lhoist group took part .
The Rheinische Kalksteinwerke in Wülfrath were founded in 1903 by August Thyssen to secure limestone deposits for steel production . Lhoist took over the company in 1997.
At the end of August 1944, in the hidden Hönnetal in the Emil 1 quarry of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke, the expansion of a gigantic tunnel system (code name Schwalbe I ) began, with the aim of securing the war-relevant mineral oil industry from destruction by Allied air raids.
Group structure
The group includes:
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Wülfrath
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Flandersbach plant , Wülfrath
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Hönnetal plant , Menden (Sauerland)
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Hagen-Halden plant , Hagen
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Messinghausen plant, Brilon (Sauerland)
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Pelm plant , Pelm
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Salzhemmendorf plant, Hameln-Pyrmont district
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Hastenrath plant, Eschweiler
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Istein plant, Efringen-Kirchen
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Rheine plant, Rheine
- Rheinkalk Grevenbrück GmbH, Lennestadt
- Rheinkalk GmbH, Scharzfeld plant , Herzberg
- Rheinkalk Lengerich GmbH, Lengerich - closed in 2010
- Walhalla Kalk GmbH & Co.KG, Regensburg plant, Regensburg
- AWA Institute, Society for Applied Water Chemistry mbH, Pelm
The Flandersbach lime works of the Rheinkalk Group is the largest lime works in Europe. Here alone around 7.5 million tons of limestone are extracted and burned annually . The furnaces at the Flandersbach plant run on coal dust, gas and substitute fuels. Most of the lime produced is transported by rail via the Angertal Railway .
There is a need for lime in many areas of industry (e.g. steel production, construction , paper industry) and agriculture.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Rheinkalk group of companies
- Rheinkalk-Werk Hönnetal, Menden: The Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke in Hönnetal. Origin of the plant and the plant railways. Author: Rolf Reckers. Bahn-Express 2/1987, pages 63–76. (PDF; 20.3 MB) Accessed August 24, 2014.
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Electronic Federal Gazette, February 19, 2016, annual financial statements as of December 31, 2014
- ↑ A company share from 1921 noted: “Production of raw limestone for the smelting of iron ores; White lime in pieces for crude steel production, etc. Founded on July 9, 1887. Established as 'Dornap-Angerthaler AG for limestone and lime industry'. 1888 Change of company to Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke. “- Participations 1943: 1. Westdeutsche Kalk- und Portlandzement-Werke AG, Cologne. 2. Trier Kalk- und Dolomitwerke AG, Wellen (District Trier) u. v. a. - Major shareholders (1943): 1. Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Düsseldorf (59.7%); 2. Hoesch AG , Dortmund (25.6%)