SHW Casting Technologies

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SHW Casting Technologies GmbH & Co. KG

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 2002
Seat Aalen , Germany
management Marcus Catholic
Number of employees 149
Branch Mechanical engineering, foundry
As of September 30, 2017

The SHW Casting Technologies GmbH & Co. KG is a German company with headquarters in Aalen - Wasseralfingen . The company emerged from the foundry segment of the former Swabian iron and steel works . Today SHW Casting Technologies consists of the plants in Aalen-Wasseralfingen and Königsbronn . In addition to the manufacture of large motor housings and rollers, among other things for the paper industry , components for power generation are also manufactured. On October 1, 2017, insolvency proceedings were opened against the assets of the limited partnership. Hüttenwerke Königsbronn GmbH has been the new owner since April 2019 .

History of the works

Koenigsbronn

The origins of the Königsbronn plant go back to a document from Emperor Charles IV from 1365, in which Count Ulrich d. J. von Helfenstein is granted the fiefdom on "everything eysenwerk" in whose territory it is ruled, combined with the right to lay mills and hammers on Brenz and Kocher . A year later this was restricted again when Karl confirmed this privilege for the Zahnberg near Königsbronn to the local Cistercian monastery , which had insisted on an older right. It was then also the Cistercian monks who subsequently started pre-industrial iron processing and later mining. If this did not take place until the second half of the 15th century, the practice of these technologies in the Brenz valley can be proven much earlier. Hence the claim of the factory to be the oldest industrial enterprise in Germany.

In 1557, Duke Christoph von Württemberg brought together all the huts in his domain. In 1582 the "iron works" in Königsbronn and Itzelberg were leased to the Brenztaler works. In 1598, Duke Friedrich I paid off his fellow partners. This means that all the huts in the Brenz and Kocher valleys were brought together under ducal ownership and under uniform management.

The first permanent mold casting is dated to 1665. Rolls cast in chill molds have been manufactured in Königsbronn since 1832, and the first paper calender roll was delivered just three years later. Since then, the Königsbronn plant has specialized in this product. More than 75,000 rollers have been produced using permanent mold casting since 1835.

Wasseralfingen

Wasseralfingen plant

In 1671 the blast furnace in Wasseralfingen was built at the foot of the Braunenberg because of the wealth of ore there . In the following century, up to 2,000 people were employed in the iron and steel industry in Wasseralfingen. In 1803 the Wasseralfingen smelting works fell to the Württemberg state through the secularization of the territories of the prince-priest of Ellwangen . Three years later, the Württemberg royal family took over the ironworks, which from then on bore the title “Royal Württemberg steelworks”. The crown on the SHW Casting Technologies GmbH logo is derived from this. In 1841 the first steam engine was installed in Wasseralfingen , and in 1876 the first mine railway followed . Important structures, such as the Stuttgart pavilion on Schlossplatz , were manufactured in Wasseralfingen.

In 1921 the royal Württemberg ironworks were taken over by Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen (today MAN AG) and renamed Swabian ironworks . Until 2005, MAN AG and the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation each held 50% of the company's shares.

Merging of the works and bankruptcy

In 2002 SHW Casting Technologies GmbH was founded, which comprised the traditional foundries in Königsbronn and Wasseralfingen as well as a plant in Torrington (USA). In 2005 there was a management buy-out , one year later the Heidenheimer foundry and the Caterpillar foundry in Kiel were acquired.

SHW Casting Technologies GmbH had to file for bankruptcy in April 2013. In the course of the bankruptcy, the foundry in Kiel went back to its previous owner, Caterpillar , in August 2013 , and the Heidenheim foundry was closed at the end of 2013. In July 2015, SHW Casting Technologies was converted into a GmbH & Co. KG and has belonged to Restart GmbH & Co. KG from Bad Kreuznach since then . The insolvency proceedings opened in 2013 were thus ended. Production continued at the Wasseralfingen and Königsbronn plants. The Torrington plant was sold in mid-2016.

On October 1, 2017, the Aalen District Court reopened insolvency proceedings against the company. In the first two months after the opening of the insolvency proceedings, no investor could be found, so that no insolvency plan has yet been submitted for voting. In May 2018 it was announced that Rheinische Mittelstandsbeteiligungs GmbH (RMB) from Meerbusch in North Rhine-Westphalia is taking over the business operations and the company's property in Königsbronn. At the beginning of December, the RMB resigned from the purchase agreement, as it was struggling with economic problems. On December 17, 2018, the third bankruptcy petition was filed. On February 8, 2019, the insolvency administrator announced the likely end, the official decision of the creditors' committee on the closure of the business was taken three days later. Since April 23, 2019, SHW HPCT have been taken over by the newly founded Hüttenwerke Königsbronn GmbH . After 7 weeks of shutdown, work could be resumed with a reduced workforce.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of September 30, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Manfred Thier: History of the Swabian Hüttenwerke, 1365 - 1802, publisher: Heimat und Wirtschaft, Aalen and Stuttgart 1965, p. 1 ff.
  3. ↑ A sale is not yet ready for a decision, Gmünder Tagespost, 23 November 2017
  4. ^ Report of the Südwestpresse about the end of the SWH HPCT on swp.de. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Report of the Heidenheimer Zeitung about the continuation of the SHW HPCT hz.de. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ SHW HPCT was sold to Avir Walze Holding. In: werkzeug-formenbau.de. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .

literature

swell

Web links