Schuller (company)
| Schuller GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1896 |
| Seat | Wertheim , Germany |
| management |
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| Number of employees | 619 |
| sales | EUR 124.07 million |
| Branch | Textile glass production |
| Website | www.jm.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The Schuller GmbH is a company founded in 1896 for the production of glass fibers . The head office is in Wertheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . Further locations exist in Karlstein am Main and in Steinach (Thuringia) . As a subsidiary of Johns Manville Europe GmbH, the company belongs to the Berkshire Hathaway Group.
history
1896-1945
On September 16, 1896, Joseph Schuller and his son Hermann Schuller founded the company under the name "Glashütte" in Haselbach , Thuringia . The first production goods included glass tubes and glass marbles, which were made by hand drawing. After his father's death in 1902, Gustav Schuller, Hermann Schuller's brother, took over management of the company. Due to permanent investments in new facilities, which also went hand in hand with improvements in working conditions, exports increased rapidly. In the course of industrialization , a second glassworks for the production of special glasses was built in 1913.
With the beginning of the First World War , the glassworks lost export business. Due to the increasing domestic demand, there were always new developments in production techniques - for example the vertical drawing process - and the purchase of machines. In 1926 Werner Schuller, Hermann Schuller's son, took over the management and renamed the company to "Glasfabrik Wernerhütte". With the conversion from port to tank furnaces , fully continuous production was made possible. A year later, the development of a spinnable glass fiber began , and textile fiber was born .
In 1938 the rod drawing process was expanded to become a rod drum drawing process in order to produce textile glass. A year later, a new fiber optic branch was built in Coburg , Bavaria . In 1941 Werner Schuller founded the "Fiber Industry GmbH" in Mulhouse in Alsace , which was destroyed during the Second World War. At this point in time, the Schuller company was at a low point. At that time, the main plant in Haselbach was developing the process for producing sliver of glass staple fiber. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union occupied the Haselbach region.
1946-1970
In 1946, the Soviet military administration in Germany expropriated the Wernerhütte glass factory. A year later, the "Glaswerk Schuller GmbH" was founded in Coburg , which in the following years produced glass sliver and Christmas tree decorations . A few years later, textile glass production replaced the manufacture of Christmas decorations. In 1948, attempts to manufacture glass fleece were started for the first time and glass fleece production started two years later.
In 1951, Wolfgang Schuller, son of Werner Schuller, joined the company. A year later, construction of the plant in Wertheim , Baden-Württemberg began , as the production facility in Coburg turned out to be too small. In 1953, the Wertheim site started producing glass fleece and glass fiber sliver . In 1954 the Schuller glassworks founded the "Peace River Glass Company Ltd." in Canada and made contact with the American company Johns Manville for the first time that year. In the same year, another fleece plant was put into operation so that the increasing world market demand could be met, which Schuller had to meet almost alone. In 1955, the production facility in Wertheim was further expanded. In 1966 the Schuller glassworks delivered a glass fleece plant to Johns Manville in the USA .
One year later, the Schuller glassworks developed into the market leader in the Federal Republic of Germany and Scandinavia in the field of bitumen roofing membranes . In 1968 the first wet mat line was put into operation in Wertheim . In the following years, the world's first glass fleece for the flooring industry was created at the Schuller glass factory . In a new branch in Karlstein am Main , Aschaffenburg , the company began producing wet web production.
From 1971
In 1971 the Coburg production was finally completely relocated to Wertheim . In the same year the Johns Manville Corporation, Denver , USA took over the majority share in the company. With the takeover of the American company, Schuller GmbH gained international recognition.
A year later, a glassworks was put into operation in Wertheim , which from then on provided its own raw material supply in the form of glass pellets. In the same year, Glashütte Schuller GmbH delivered a 3.70 meter wide wet web machine to the parent company in Denver . Schuller GmbH was the first company in the world to go onto the market in 1977 with a 4 meter wide glass fleece production, which was expanded a few years later to include a fleece finishing and coating machine. In 1978 electric tubs replaced the tub ovens in Wertheim.
Ten years later, the glass needle mat production plant in Wertheim started up . Furthermore, a location in Steinach (Thuringia) was opened in 1933 and C-glass roving was developed a year later .
In 2001 Warren Buffett took over the Johns Manville Company with the Berkshire Hathaway Company, to which Schuller GmbH belongs. Shortly afterwards, the company set up micro glass fiber fleece plants in Wertheim for the production of filter materials. A new (micro glass fiber fleece) facility was approved in 2015 and construction began. The completion and inauguration took place in mid-2016. A glass fleece plant will be modernized by the end of 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ^ Main-Tauber district: Schuller GmbH . Online at www.main-tauber-kreis.de. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ Main-Tauber district: Johns Manville Europe GmbH . Online at www.main-tauber-kreis.de. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ↑ a b Johns Manville: We are Johns Manville (PDF). Online at www.jm.com. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ↑ Main-Echo: Background: Johns Manville / Schuller GmbH . Online at www.main-echo.de. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ Main echo: German fleece production in Wertheim . Online at www.main-echo.de. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 13.3 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 42.9" E