Salzgitter Klöckner works
| Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1906 |
| Seat | Salzgitter |
| management | Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann, Burkhard Becker, Michael Kieckbusch |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.salzgitter-ag.de |
The Klöckner-Werke GmbH is an international plant manufacturer with activities in the filling and packaging technology. 100% of the capital is held by Salzgitter AG (through its subsidiary Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH). The company does not provide any active services.
history
Together with his brother Florian founded Peter Klöckner 1906 iron and steel trading company in Duisburg , which later became the company Klöckner & Co . emerged. They paid particular attention to ailing companies in which they secured a majority of the capital before restructuring them. These included, in particular, steelworks , coal mines and ore mines .
In 1923 , Klöckner merged all of his stakes in steel in the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück , in the iron and steel works in Hagen-Haspe , in the Mannstaedt works in Troisdorf and in the iron and wire industry in Düsseldorf to form Klöckner -Werke AG Rauxel-Berlin based in Castrop-Rauxel . In 1926, Klöckner refused to bring his company into Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG . He preferred to remain independent.
During the Second World War , in addition to iron and steel products in Georgsmarienhütte and Hagen-Haspe, Klöckner mainly produced armaments in Cologne. From 1940 onwards, the company deployed numerous forced laborers , prisoners of war and Italian military internees who had been abducted from Eastern Europe and France at Hasper Hütte . In addition, a camp for prisoners and remand prisoners was set up on the factory premises, which also housed prisoners from the Hagen penal and remand prison who were used as slave labor in the factory.
The Klöckner-Werke were liquidated in 1945 by an Allied decision. However, that did not mean the end of the individual works. Hasper Hütte, for example, continued to produce under Allied control. From 1952 the individual mining and iron and steel companies were gradually brought together again under the holding company Nordwestdeutsche Hütten- und Bergwerksvereins-AG . The connections between Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG and the new holding company were broken up.
In 1954 the Nordwestdeutsche Hütten- und Bergwerksvereins-AG traded again under its old name Klöckner-Werke AG. The main shareholder became the NV Internationale Industrielebelgingmaatschappij Amsterdam in Voorburg , which was owned by Günther Henle's family . Numerous companies formerly belonging to the group were brought back under the management of Klöckner-Werke.
Also in 1954, Klöckner-Werke began purchasing land in Bremen , on which an integrated steelworks consisting of a blast furnace , steelworks , cold rolling mill and hot wide strip mill started production in 1957 .
During the 1960s, the group expanded in the field of plastics processing and mechanical engineering . So Klöckner started the production of hard plastic films at Klöckner Pentaplast in Montabaur . The plastic films were such a success that Klöckner opened a subsidiary in the USA in 1979 . In the same year, the group entered beverage machine production with the acquisition of Holstein & Kappert . Klöckner was also involved in filling and packaging technology and the automotive sector.
In 1977 the Klöckner Group reached out to Maxhütte in Bavaria and received substantial public subsidies . The Klöckner-Maxhütte steel production process (KMS process) was jointly developed in 1980. But already between 1972 and 1978 the capacities in Hagen-Haspe were shut down as a result of the steel crisis.
In the steel crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Klöckner did not adhere to the production quotas agreed within the Eurofer 1 steel cartel and fought for higher levels in court. In return, the Klöckner-Werke were excluded from the Iron and Steel Economic Association. The management outsourced the steel sector from the company under the name Klöckner Stahl GmbH .
In the early 1990s, Klöckner fell into a profound crisis. In view of the steel crisis, the group no longer earned as well as it did in the “golden 1960s”. The German bank as a house bank of the then independent company sent Karl-Josef Neukirchen as a restructuring, because the entire group threatened to collapse in the face of the steel crisis. In 1994, Georgsmarienhütte disappeared from the Klöckner Group as part of a management buyout , while Klöckner-Hütte Bremen was sold to the Belgian Cockerill Sambre Group . The end of the Maxhütte dragged on longer.
By 1994, the high-investment business in the automotive supplier industry , which was risky due to economic fluctuations, was sold. Instead, investments were made in the more profitable film division; However, this was sold in 2001.
At the end of 2001, Klöckner-Werke became a group company of WCM Beteiligungs- und Grundbesitz-AG in Frankfurt am Main, which held around 68% of the voting rights. After the parent company went bankrupt, its insolvency administrator sold approx. 78% of the shares in Klöckner-Werke AG to Salzgitter AG. Following a squeeze-out , the Salzgitter Group has held 100% of the shares since August 2010 and the company's listing was subsequently discontinued.
In October 2011, Klöckner-Werke AG was converted into Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH .
Current activities
The Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke, as a 100% subsidiary of Salzgitter Mannesmann, concentrate on its industrial activities in the field of plant construction . The filling and packaging technology segment consists of the companies of the KHS Group, which operate worldwide and are managed centrally from Germany. KHS plans, builds and installs complete beverage processing, filtration and filling systems for the beverage and non-beverage industry. KHS is among the market leaders worldwide.
The Other Industrial Holdings division consists of the companies Klöckner DESMA Schuhmaschinen GmbH (KDS) and Klöckner DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH (KDE). Rubber injection molding machines (KDE) and shoe machines (KDS) are manufactured.
Web links
- Company website
- DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH, Salzgitter. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
- ^ Dirk Bockermann: Foreign workers and prisoners of war. Inhuman fates on the Hasper hut . In: Dirk Bockermann (Ed.): Hasper Gold. A reader on the history of the Hasper hut . Hagen 1997, p. 107-116 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 10 ° 25 ′ 52.5 ″ E