Rothe Erde (ThyssenKrupp)

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thyssenkrupp rothe erde
legal form GmbH
founding 1860
Seat Dortmund , Germany
management Winfried Schulte (CEO)
Stefan Efftinge (CFO)
Wilfried Spintig (COO)
Number of employees > 7,500
Branch Wind energy, plant construction
Website [1]

Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde ( spelling thyssenkrupp rothe erde ) is an international industrial company in the Thyssenkrupp group of companies with headquarters in Dortmund. The company manufactures slewing bearings , wire roller bearings , seamlessly rolled rings and turntables . As the world market leader for slewing bearings, Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde is one of the most renowned companies in this industry.

history

Large diameter bearings from Rothe Erde

In 1855, near the Tremonia colliery in the west of Dortmund, the Elberfeld merchant and banker Heinrich Kamp founded the Paulinenhütte. Kamp had previously founded the mechanical workshops Harkort & Co. with Friedrich Harkort in Wetter at the castle there for the production of steam engines and gas lighting equipment. The operating facilities of the mechanical workshops were relocated to the Paulinenhütte. In the Paulinenhütte mainly axles, wheels, fittings and wagons for the railroad were manufactured.

In 1861 the Aachen industrialist Carl Ruëtz , who founded the steelworks " Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein Rothe Erde " on the Aachen estate in 1845 , acquired the Paulinenhütte. The Aachen plant was relocated to Dortmund and the Paulinenhütte was named "Rothe Erde Dortmund".

1916, the work of which was German-Luxembourg mining and metallurgical AG acquired by the Company as operating department Rothe Erde Dortmund Union continue operating. In 1926 this was then transferred to the United Steel Works .

In 1934 the company Eisenwerk Rothe Erde was re-established. In 1935 the company began to expand. The Rothe Erde ironworks and the Dortmund-Hörder-Hüttenverein took over the Lippstädter Eisen- und Metallwerke GmbH . During the Second World War, the company, which also manufactured armaments, was badly damaged by bombing raids.

Reconstruction began in 1949. In the course of the reorganization of the iron and steel industry after the Second World War, the company's share rights fell to Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion AG .

In 1962, the first production facility abroad was set up in the USA. In the next few years further production facilities followed in Japan, England, Spain, Italy and Brazil. After the company was integrated into the Hoesch Group, a modern ring rolling mill was built in 1967 on the site of the former Paulinenhütte in Dortmund. The plants in Dortmund and Lippstadt, along with three other plants in Hagen-Haspe, Hagen-Eckesey and Werdohl, were among the five domestic production sites of the operating company Hoesch Rothe Erde Schmiedag AG (HRS) in the former Hoesch Group. The HRS network was globally positioned with productions in the USA (state of Ohio), Brazil (state of Sao Paulo), East Asia (China and Japan), northern Spain (Aragon), Great Britain (County Durham) and northern Italy (Emilia-Romagna).

In 1992 Hoesch AG was taken over by the Krupp Group and the subsequent merger to form Fried. Krupp AG, Hoesch-Krupp. Hoesch Rothe Erde is integrated into the group with the business areas of slewing bearings and seamlessly rolled rings.

In December 2006, the competitor DRE / CON Großwälzlager GmbH in Eberswalde was taken over. The company name was also changed to Rothe Erde GmbH.

Todays situation

Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde has 15 plants in 10 countries. The main German plants are located in Dortmund, Lippstadt and Eberswalde. The company also manufactures in the USA, Japan, Italy, England, Brazil, Spain, China and, since 2006, also in India.

The Dortmund main plant has been expanded and expanded since 2008. New production halls were built on the company premises not far from the Althoffblock residential area .

Since the Thyssenkrupp brand relaunch in 2015, all of the Group's brands have only appeared under the umbrella brand.

As a result, the company name is now officially Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde.

criticism

During the renovation and expansion of the plant in 2009, the Dortmund-West citizens' initiative complained about the increasing nocturnal noise pollution. The long-term transports through the residential areas by heavy goods vehicles also met with constant criticism. Today, the industrial company mainly uses the adjacent rail connection for transport and can thus prevent a large part of the truck traffic through the quarter every day.

literature

  • Rothe Erde, yesterday, today and tomorrow, ed. from Eisenwerk Rothe Erde GmbH, Dortmund 1950.

Web links

Commons : ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. By Andreas Winkelsträter: Lawsuit against expansion plans Rothe Erde. February 6, 2009, accessed on July 17, 2019 (German).

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 31.8 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 24.2"  E