Simona (company)

SIMONA AG
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	DE0007239402
founding	1857
Seat	Kirn , Germany
management	Matthias Schönberg, CEO Rolf Goessler, chairman of the supervisory board
Number of employees	1430
sales	432.5 million euros
Branch	Plastics
Website	www.simona.de
As of December 31, 2019

Main plant and administrative headquarters of Simona AG on Kirner Teichweg

The Simona AG (proper spelling: SIMONA AG) is a Rhineland-Palatinate Kirn -based medium-sized companies in the plastics industry . The company develops and produces semi-finished plastic products , pipe and molded parts as well as finished parts. Semi-finished plastic products include plates, rods, profiles and welding wires. Due to their high resistance to aggressive chemicals, they are mainly used in chemical apparatus and plant construction. But the company also produces semi-finished plastic products for the automotive industry , mechanical engineering, life science , building construction and advertising sectors .

Simona AG is listed on the stock exchange and in the General Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange .

history

Today's company emerged from the leather factory "Carl Simon Söhne" founded in Kirn in 1857 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the company "Carl Simon Söhne" achieved international reach. After the end of the Second World War, the leather industry increasingly lost its importance. New business fields were found with plastics production. 50 years later, more than 1200 people were employed in Kirn and in foreign branches.

The first attempts to produce plastic began in 1956, and in 1965 sales of plastic products exceeded that of leather for the first time. Leather production was stopped in 1973. The company name Simona was introduced in 1965; In 1988 the GmbH became today's stock corporation . In 2007 the company celebrated its 150th anniversary.

In 2009 a production facility in Litvinov / Czech Republic went into full operation, which was certified in 2010 according to the quality and environmental management system. In the same year, another plant was opened in Jiangmen (China).

In 2011 a subsidiary was founded in Russia. In 2012, an energy management system was introduced and certified in accordance with international standards. In 2013 Simona AG received the Top 100 Innovator Award.

2014 took place the acquisition of the two US companies Laminations Inc. and Boltaron Performance Products .

In 2015 the new technology center was opened in Kirn.

On August 1, 2018, was carried out acquisition of the US company's Premier Material Concepts, LLC (PMC).

Locations

Production locations are:

• Kirn (administration, plants I and II, main warehouse)
• Ringsheim (Plant III)
• Litvínov , Czech Republic (since 2009)
• Jiangmen , China (since 2010)
• Archbald (Pennsylvania), United States (since 01/2014)
• Newcomerstown (Ohio), United States (since 10/2014)
• Findlay (Ohio), United States (since 08/2018)

The company also has sales offices in France , Great Britain , Hong Kong , Italy , Poland , Switzerland , Spain , the Czech Republic , the Russian Federation , the United States and a dealer network in Latin America .

Web links

• Simona AG website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Simona share. Frankfurt Stock Exchange, accessed on March 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Imprint. In: simona.de. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Simona AG: Official key figures for the Simona Group. Retrieved April 28, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Portrait. May 4, 2018. Retrieved August 8, 2018 . 
5. ^ Simona share. June 11, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
6. ↑ corporate history of SIMONA AG - regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
7. ↑ State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate / The Carl Simon Sons company (content). Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Chronicle. August 3, 2017, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} plasticker.de: Simona plant opened in China. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Simona is one of the top 100 medium-sized businesses. Retrieved October 26, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Simona takes over Laminations. In: Plastverarbeiter.de. January 10, 2014, accessed March 11, 2019 . 
12. ↑ SIMONA AMERICA INC. acquires Laminations Inc. August 1, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} chemie.de/news: SIMONA intends to purchase Boltaron. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
14. ↑ SIMONA: SIMONA and Boltaron unite North American operations. August 1, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
15. ↑ chemie.de/news: SIMONA: Groundbreaking for the future. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
16. ↑ SIMONA in the first half of 2016: profitability continues to be good. August 3, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017 . 
17. ^ ^{A b} PlasticsToday Staff: Simona Group finalizes purchase of extrusion company Premier Material Concepts. August 1, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 . 
18. ↑ SIMONA takes over the American extrusion company PMC. August 1, 2018, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Badische Zeitung: Simona Group is growing strongly - Ringsheim - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
20. ↑ ^{a b} kunststoffweb.de: Start of construction for Simona plants in the Czech Republic and China. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .