Schenck Process
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1881 Carl Schenck AG 1995 Schenck Process GmbH |
| Seat | Darmstadt , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 2600 (2018) |
| sales | EUR 600 million (2018) |
| Branch | Food, plastics, processing technology, cement, logistics, building materials, chemistry, mining, transport |
| Website | www.schenckprocess.com |
The Schenck Process Group emerged from a company originally founded as an iron foundry and weighing factory. Today the mechanical engineering company is one of the world market leaders in the field of measurement and process technology and employs around 2,500 people worldwide.
history
Founder Carl Schenck was born on November 14, 1835 in Herborn. After studying at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe, he initially worked for various mechanical engineering companies before he acquired the Mannheim company Johann Schweitzer Senior in 1863, which was involved in the construction of cranes, scales and testing machines and from 1871 under the name Schenck, Mohr and Alsatian became known. The company's first technical employee was Carl Benz, who later became known as a pioneer of German automobile construction.
In 1881 Carl Schenck sold his shares in the Mannheim company and acquired a foundry in Darmstadt, which he operated under the name Carl Schenck Eisengießerei und Waagenfabrik Darmstadt. In 1894 it was converted into a limited liability company. His son-in-law Georg Büchner (politician) and his nephew, the engineer Emil Schenck, became co-partners . In 1900, Carl Schenck became chairman of the first supervisory board.
The scale construction forms the basis of the technical development of the young company. Carl Schenck's first patent is the “registration device”, a card printer for the sliding weight scale that clearly displays the weight. It was patented in 1887. In 1891, the patent for the "independent running weight scale" for narrow-gauge and overhead rail vehicles followed. An invention that was awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and made the company known overseas in just a few years. Around thirteen of these scales were delivered to South African gold mines in the Transvaal and ten to the Imperial Japanese Steel Works in 1898. Carl Schenck died on December 19, 1910.
In 1930, the first weighfeeders were built, as well as batch scales for concrete mixing plants and road construction material, express train car body weighing devices and the first illuminated image scales. Finally, in 1931, the illuminated image scales could be equipped with a number printer, which was finally approved for calibration in 1938 after some design improvements. The first track and road vehicles without the usual relief followed in 1935.
In weighing scales, the illuminated image weighing and printing machine with 3,000 pressure levels, which was improved in 1950, gave a considerable technical lead. Another highlight followed with the first speed-controlled weighfeeder, which was later equipped with a load cell. At the same time, the development of the first batch plants using this new technology took place. In 1955 the first electronic crane scale was delivered. This marked the path from mechanical to electromechanical scales, in which the then Carl Schenck iron foundry and scales factory in Darmstadt played a major role. The development led through the introduction of digital technology and the use of the first computers to special scales.
In 1974, Carl Schenck Maschinenfabrik GmbH was converted into Carl Schenck AG , which went public in 1984. In 2000, Dürr AG took over the majority stake in Carl Schenck AG. Schenck Process developed more and more into an independent company within Carl Schenck AG. The management buy-out took place in December 2005 .
As an independent company, Schenck Process took over Stock Equipment Company Inc. (USA) including Stock Redler in 2006. In 2007, the acquisition of Fairfield Engineering Parts Company LLC followed, which was eventually renamed Stock Fairfield Corporation. Another acquisition took place in 2008 with the takeover of the Australian company Screenex Pty Ltd. One year later - in 2009 - the Czech company TEDO sro was incorporated into the Schenck Process Group. Further inorganic growth followed in 2011 with the acquisition of Clyde Process Solutions, a provider of air filtration technology and pneumatic conveying and injection technology, as well as the screen manufacturer Pentec. In 2018, the company grew to include the bulk material handling company FPE Global Limited, as well as the acquisition of Raymond Bartlett Snow, a supplier of pulverization, classification and thermal processing. In addition, Process Components Ltd. was acquired in 2019. and thus the expansion of the powder processing and handling area through the industrial brands kemutec, KEK-Gardner, PPS Air Classifier Mills and mucon.
structure
The Schenck Process Group is currently divided into international business units (BU) to serve the various industries
- Construction, Minerals & Metals (CMM) Cement, Gypsum, Sand & Gravel, Railway Industry, Energy and Utilities, Transportation, Mining and Processing Plants , Steel and Non-ferrous Metals; Non-ferrous metals
- Food, Chemicals & Plastics (FCP) Fine and specialty chemicals, plastics, agriculture, food, pet food and pharmaceuticals
- Service & Process Solutions (SPS) Service, spare and wear parts, components and standard products
Products
The Schenck Process Group's product portfolio includes:
- CMM: weighfeeders, dosing systems for alternative fuels, screw dosing scales, products for pulverized coal dosing, conveyors as well as trough chain conveyors and lifts, dynamic, calibratable track scales, bogie pressure measurement stands, diagnostic systems, dispatch automation, road vehicle scales, crane scales, bulk goods receiving and wagon weighing systems, as well as heavy-duty weighing systems Electrostatic precipitators, banana sieves, linear vibrating sieves, drainage sieves, directional exciters, belt scales, weigh belt feeders, train and wagon loading systems as well as screen linings
- FCP: Differential weigh feeders, weigh belt feeders, mass flow meters, emptying stations, trough chain conveyors and lifts, pneumatic conveying systems and air filtration systems
- PLC: service, weighing sensors, load cells, load cell bearings, measuring eyes and weighing electronics
Locations
The company is represented in 20 countries on all five continents. The group includes 130 agencies, over 30 service points and 22 modern production facilities worldwide.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 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. Retrieved July 17, 2016
