Stölzle glass group
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| legal form | Group of companies |
| founding | 1805 |
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Köflach , Austria
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| management | Georg Feith |
| Number of employees | 2,800 |
| sales | EUR 300 million |
| Branch | Glass industry |
| Website | www.stoelzle.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
The Stölzle Glass Group ( proper spelling Stölzle Glass Group ) or Stölzle Glass Group is a group of companies, it includes the company Stölzle-Oberglas GmbH founded in 1805 in Köflach , Austria . The group originally specialized in packaging glass, but has also been producing lanterns and candle jars since 2015. Today it has production plants in Austria, Great Britain, France, the Czech Republic and Poland, as well as additional sales offices in the USA, France and Russia.
history
On June 15, 1805, Karl Smola founded the Oberdorf glassworks in Bärnbach . In 1835, Carl Stölzle leased two glass factories in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel , one in Joachimstal and one in Schwarzau . In 1848 the Oberdorf glassworks became the kuk Glashütte, i.e. a company of national interest. In 1867 there were already seven glass factories in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. The Köflach glass factory was founded in 1871 . Around 1900 Stölzle employs around 1,100 skilled workers, 1,000 day laborers and 80 salespeople; after the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy, the Stölzle group of companies also disintegrated, and after the Second World War another three glass factories were spun off from what was then CSSR.
In 1978 the two traditional companies Stölzle Glasindustrie AG and Oberglas Glashütten AG merged to form Stölzle-Oberglas AG , later AG & Co. KG , since 2002 GmbH .
Stölzle-Oberglas has been part of the CAG Group since 1987, which is 100 percent owned by Cornelius Alexander Grupp .
In 1988 the Styrian state exhibition "Glass and Coal" took place in Bärnbach for the first time. The newly built Stölzle Glass Center has since hosted annual exhibitions on the subject of glass and is one of the destinations for excursions by numerous school classes.
In 1989, Austria Glas Recycling GmbH was founded together with the Swiss glass packaging manufacturer Vetropack , which took over the Pöchlarn glassworks in Lower Austria from Stölzle in 1986 . With this cooperation, the Stölzle Glass Group is also responsible for all packaging glass recycling in Austria. The separated packaging glass is almost entirely recycled in Austria. Demand and quality-related residual quantities for recycling are exported to the neighboring countries of Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic.
In 1996, the privatized and now insolvent successor to the former largest glass producer in the GDR , the state-owned Kombinat Lausitzer glass in white water , taken, he has since been trading under Stölzle Lausitz and produced with about 230 employees, high-quality drinking glasses.
After the purchase of the Czech glassworks Heřmanova Huť (Stölzle-Union sro) in 1992, the glass factory in Knottingley, Great Britain, (Stölzle Flaconnage Ltd.) and in 2001 the glass factory in Częstochowa, Poland (Stolzle Częstochowa Sp. Z oo) became part of the company incorporated. In 2000 Stölzle-Oberglas AG was renamed Stölzle-Oberglas AG & Co KG , and in 2005 it was renamed Stölzle-Oberglas GmbH .
On December 24, 2009, the Stölzle Union in the Czech Republic was almost completely destroyed by fire. The plant was rebuilt within just seven months and presented as the flagship for the production of pharmaceutical glasses in the Stölzle Glass Group in 2010. Almost at the same time, Stölzle Flaconnage was given a facelift. The plant received a new customer center, and the production and decoration options were expanded. In addition, the sales companies Stoelzle Glass USA Inc , based in New York, Stolzle France SAS in Paris and Stoelzle Glass LLC in Moscow were founded during this period .
In 2011 a second white glass tank was built at Stolzle Częstochowa, thereby expanding production capacity. The Mundblashütte Oberglas Bärnbach GmbH was converted into a show glassworks . Most of the employees were taken over from the plant in Köflach.
In 2012 the Stölzle Gallery was founded as an art and culture center in western Styria in the former premises of the Mundblashütte. The Stölzle-Glas-Center shows the traditional production of hand-blown glass in the Schauglashütte in cooperation with the Styrian Glass Art Center Association.
In 2014 the company expanded its machine park to include a 3D printer , which the company uses in rapid prototyping to manufacture translucent Plexiglas products.
Decoration locations in France, England and Poland offer customers not only new product development but also the opportunity to design their own product using individual processes.
In 2015, another plant in Poland for the production of lanterns and candle glasses was integrated into the group.
In 2016, the production capacity of the glass factory in Knottingley, UK, was expanded with the construction of another white glass tank.
In order to counteract the shortage of skilled workers for glass production, a training center was opened at the Köflach headquarters in April 2018 and the new apprenticeship “glass process technician” was created in cooperation with the Vetropack Group.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stölzle-Oberglas GmbH. In: Trend Top 500. News Networld Internet Service, accessed July 26, 2016 .
- ^ Carl Stölzle's Sons, Aktiengesellschaft für Glasfabrikation, Nagelberg . In: Pressed Glass Correspondence . No. 2002-4-1 , ISSN 1867-2361 , p. 47 ff . Available online
- ^ Stölzle - Oberglas GmbH , company register data, Creditreform / firmenabc.at
- ↑ Cornelius Grupp sells the Illichmann Group . In: boerse-express.com , November 9, 2005
- ^ Ministry of Life, Section VI / 3 (Ed.): Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Vienna March 2012, 3. Consideration of selected waste streams , Section Flat Glass and Packaging Glass , p. 57 , col. 2 ( Link to pdf chapter 3 , bundesabfallwirtschaftsplan.at).
- ^ André Kurtas: "Born in fire - the fascination of glass". (No longer available online.) In: www.lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , February 23, 2008, archived from the original on May 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 8, 2012 . 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.
