Schmidtsche Schack - ARVOS

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SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK - ARVOS GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1910
Seat Kassel, Germany
management Karsten Stückrath, Thorben Schäfer
Number of employees approx. 400 (ARVOS Group approx. 1,700 in total)
sales approx. 335 million euros
Branch Plant construction
Website www.schmidtsche-schack.com
Status: April 2019

The Schmidt's Schack - Arvos GmbH (proper spelling Schmidt's SCHACK | Arvos ) is a German company based in Kassel . The company has locations in Germany, the USA, Japan and Singapore. It produces solutions for process gas cooling in the chemical , petrochemical and metallurgy sectors . It emerged from the Schmidt'sche Superheated Steam Society founded by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1910. After various name changes, the company is now active worldwide as Schmidtsche Schack - Arvos GmbH as part of the Arvos Group. Sales for the 2018 financial year amounted to around EUR 335 million.

history

Company history in the 19th century

Even before the Schmidt'sche Superheated Steam Company was founded, the engineer Wilhelm Schmidt developed steam engines from 1880 onwards . He sold the first patent license for a superheated steam ship engine in 1887 to the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss . In 1890 the business began to flourish with the sale of patent licenses for superheated steam technology. In 1895 Wilhelm Schmidt took over the majority of the capital in the Aschersleben machine factory, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1898 . Schmidt took over a supervisory board mandate and the first two superheated steam locomotives with the Schmidt superheater system were delivered to the Prussian Railway Company by Vulkan AG, Stettin and Henschel & Sohn , Kassel. Further companies were founded for the purpose of selling patent rights to superheater technology in England in 1899.

Company history in the first half of the 20th century

In 1900, the first superheated steam locomotive with a Schmidt design was presented at the World Exhibition in Paris and was awarded a great prize . From 1902, the railway companies in Germany, Europe and overseas switched their locomotive construction to Schmidt's superheated steam technology

In 1910 the Schmidt'sche Superheated Steam Company was founded in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe . Further companies were founded to sell licenses for the use of superheater technology in the USA, England and France. At that time, around 5,000 locomotives with superheated steam technology were in use at home and abroad. Further technical masterpieces followed in the following years. These include the delivery of the 25,000th locomotive with superheated steam technology, the first high-pressure boiler with 60 atmospheres and the development of a 4-cylinder high-pressure piston steam engine .

In 1925 the Schmidt-Hartmann high-pressure boiler was presented, which dominated the German boiler market for more than two decades. A small pipe superheater system for small railroad locomotives developed in 1927 established itself throughout Europe. In 1928, the Henschel & Sohn company built the first 3-cylinder high-pressure compound locomotive H17206, which is based on plans by the Schmidt hot steam company. The United Kesselwerke AG , Düsseldorf became the most important licensee in 1934 and delivered more than 100 superheated steam boilers, mainly to the IG Farbenindustrie in Leuna and Bitterfeld .

In 1943 the administration and test buildings were almost completely destroyed in an air raid, in 1945 the workshop hall was completely destroyed. Production then had to be stopped. From 1946 the reconstruction was carried out by our own employees. In 1950 production was relocated from Kassel to Göttingen . In the following years, boilers for different power and pressure levels and propeller induced draft systems were built there.

Company history in the second half of the 20th century

In 1955, a newly developed superheater with superheated steam temperatures of over 400 ° C was introduced in locomotive construction. Henschel & Sohn was the first to apply this technology before it found its way into the world. Also in 1955, Wiesbadener Westofen GmbH, a subsidiary of Didier-Werke AG , took over the share capital from the heirs of Wilhelm Schmidt and thereby became the new owner.

In 1959, as part of development work, the first cracked gas cooler for ethylene systems based on the double pipe system of superheated steam locomotives was developed. This was installed in 1960 at the Rheinische Olefinwerke in Wesseling near Cologne and successfully tested. Also in 1960, the last Schmidt-type superheated steam locomotives in service with the German Federal Railroad were shut down. The destroyed administration building in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe was rebuilt this year. This was followed by the construction of new administration and production buildings in Kassel-Bettenhausen in 1964. The company was concentrated at this location in 1970 and the Göttingen location was given up.

The 1,000 fission gas cooler was produced in 1976; this technology is now exported to more than 20 countries around the world. In 1976 the largest steam air station for an oil field by Wintershall AG in the Emsland region is developed. In the following years, further solutions in the field of heat recovery were developed. Examples of this are products for the manufacture of saltpetre and synthesis gas coolers for liquefying coal . In 1979, the Stuttgarter Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH (EVT), a company in the field of combustion technology, took over the shares in the Schmidt'sche hot steam company from Didier AG. The Alsthom group, based in Paris, took over the Stuttgarter Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH with all its subsidiaries in 1989. In 1994 the Schmidt'sche hot steam company merged with the Düsseldorfer Rekuperator-Schack GmbH (formerly Dr.-Ing.Schack & Co., founded in 1931 by Alfred Schack , production focus was on waste heat systems for energy recovery ( recuperators ) and high-temperature heat exchangers for metallurgical processes), Düsseldorf and was renamed SHG Schack GmbH in 1995. In 1998 the company was renamed Alstom Energy Systems SHG GmbH.

Company history in the 21st century

In 2000 the company name changed to Alstom Power SHG GmbH and then to Alstom Power Energy Recovery GmbH. The company has been operating under the name Schmidtsche Schack - Arvos GmbH since 2014. In 2018, the digital business model was presented, which provides plant operators with detailed diagnostic and prognosis information about the products on an Industry of Things platform. At the Hanover Fair on April 2, 2019, it was announced that the company is a member of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance.

Products

The company produces devices for the transfer of process heat at temperatures of up to 1,500 ° C and a pressure of up to 300 bar, such as

  • Fission gas cooler for the ethylene process
  • Synthesis gas cooler for liquefying coal or biomass
  • Process gas cooling system for the production of hydrogen, methanol, ammonia or nitric acid
  • High temperature products, e.g. B. Air preheaters for industrial soot production or sewage sludge incineration
  • Fired heaters for preheating various substances in a wide variety of chemical and petrochemical processes

In addition, services in the area of ​​service and assembly and a digital solution for system monitoring are offered.

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North Hessian cutting-edge technology grows with secure transport routes , in technik nordhessen 02/2015, pp. 24–26
  2. ↑ a b ARVOS GMBH | SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK , on m.vdi.de, accessed on April 4, 2019
  3. ↑ NORTH DATA: Financial key figures. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Richard Brachmann: With superheated steam to the top of the world . George Verlag, Kassel 2010, ISBN 3-934752-06-3 .
  5. ↑ a b company website. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Strategy and advertising agency Roberts: Zero.One - successful campaign start for an IoT solution. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ IDG Verlag: Arvos CIO Kindgen relies on artificial intelligence. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Zero.One: World market leader ARVOS GmbH | SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK digitizes the cracked gas cooler, on m.vdi.de, accessed on April 4, 2019
  9. ↑ SAP: Open Industry 4.0 Alliance: An Open Ecosystem for the Digital Transformation of Industrial Manufacturing Plants. SAP, accessed April 2, 2019 .