SMS Group
| SMS group GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1871 |
| Seat |
Dusseldorf , Germany
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| management | Managing directors:
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| Number of employees | 13,872 (2018) |
| sales | € 2.805 billion (2018) |
| Branch | Plant construction |
| Website | sms-group.com |
| Status: 2019 | |
The SMS group (formerly SMS Siemag AG ) is an international company in the field of metallurgical plant and rolling mill technology . It belongs to the network of SMS Holding GmbH , which is owned by the Heinrich Weiss family .
history
The origins of SMS group GmbH lie in a forge from Siegen founded in 1871 , from which Siegener Maschinenbau AG (Siemag) developed in the following years . The acquisition of the Klein company from Dahlbruch in 1927 saw the entry into rolling mill construction, which today is the main area of SMS group. In 1973 it merged with the Schloemann company, which belonged to the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) group of companies in Oberhausen and specialized in the planning and construction of rolling mills and continuous casting plants . CEO of the new Schloemann-Siemag AG (later SMS Schloemann-Siemag ), in which GHH held 51% and the previous Siemag owner family 49%, became the grandson of the company founder, Heinrich Weiss .
After taking over the metallurgical and rolling mill technology activities of the Mannesmann Demag division , the company was called SMS Demag AG from 1999 . As of 2003, MAN AG, as the successor to the former GHH, gradually sold its shares to the Weiss family.
On March 31, 2009, SMS Demag AG was finally renamed SMS Siemag AG.
In May 2015, the name was changed and the legal form changed to SMS group GmbH, with the previously independent SMS Meer GmbH being integrated.
Locations
The central locations of SMS group GmbH are Düsseldorf, where the metallurgy, strip mills and electrics and automation business areas are mainly located, Hilchenbach in Siegerland with the flat rolling mills business areas, the Mönchengladbach site with the long products and forging technology business areas and the Witten site, which is also part of the business area Forging technology belongs. SMS group GmbH operates its own production facilities in Hilchenbach and Mönchengladbach and an assembly workshop in Witten.
Germany
In Germany, around 4,000 people are employed by the subsidiaries of SMS group GmbH. The main other locations are in
Europe: approx. 500 employees
Among other things in
- Switzerland , Zurich
- Italy , Tarcento
- Spain , Bilbao
- Austria , Vienna
- Romania , Bucharest
- Russia , Moscow
- Belgium , Liege
North and South America: approx. 500 employees
Among other things in
- USA , Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
- Canada , Oakville . The site was closed in August 2009.
- Brazil , São Paulo
- Brazil , Belo Horizonte
Africa: 50 employees
Asia
Web links
- Last annual report from SMS Siemag 2008 (PDF; 3.2 MB)
- Homepage of the SMS Group
- Self-reported company history ( memento from April 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management overview ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Edwin Eichler profile
- ^ Profile of Burkhard Dahmen
- ↑ Profile Torsten Heising
- ↑ Profile of Prof. Dr. Hans Piglet
- ↑ Profile Michael Rzepczyk
- ↑ Profile of Prof. Dr. Katja Windt
- ↑ a b SMS Group Annual Report 2018; accessed on March 18, 2020
- ↑ Johannes Bähr u. a .: The MAN. A German industrial history. Munich 2008, p. 401.
- ↑ Johannes Bähr u. a .: The MAN. A German industrial history. Munich 2008, p. 467.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 20 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 4.9 ″ E