Bösdorf steel and chilled cast iron works
| Bösdorf steel and chilled cast iron works | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1894 |
| Seat | Leipzig- Knautnaundorf |
| Number of employees | 225 |
| sales | 13 million |
| Branch | Steel industry |
| Website | www.shb-guss.de |
| Status: 2016 | |
The steel and Hartgusswerk Bösdorf GmbH (SHB) in Leipzig Knautnaundorf is a medium-sized steel casting -Unternehmen with 200 employees. Although the town of Bösdorf had to give way to open-cast lignite mining in 1982, it has been retained in the company name.
history
The entrepreneur Max Heller founded the Max Heller Stahlhandel company in Leipzig in 1894. The company grew from a pure trading business to a foundry operation and was relocated to Bösdorf in 1917 under the name Max Heller Nachsteiger (MHN).
In the 1950s, MHN became VEB Stahl- und Hartgusswerk Bösdorf (SHB). With the use of the first electric arc furnace built in the GDR , cast steel was now also produced on the factory premises. During the GDR era, the VEB Stahl- und Hartgusswerk Bösdorf acquired a strategically important importance for the then number one energy supplier, the lignite industry. SHB produced cast steel components for opencast mines, briquette factories, construction machinery and many other areas of lignite extraction and processing. Customers were all of the central German lignite mining areas and the Schwarze Pump gas combine .
In the early 1980s, the Bösdorf site itself had to give way to the Zwenkau open-cast lignite mine . In 1984 the company moved to a completely new plant in Knautnaundorf. The technical production system was supplied and installed by the Japanese company Komatsu . The new plant was the most modern foundry in the GDR, 1200 employees worked on the 55,000 m² company premises, around 6000 tons of cast steel were produced annually.
With the political turnaround in 1990, the Bösdorf steel and chilled cast iron works was spun off as a stock corporation from the plant construction brown coal combine and passed into trust. Seven years later, SHB Stahl- und Hartgusswerk Bösdorf GmbH was re-established as a cooperation partner of DIHAG Deutsche Giesserei- und Industrie-Holding Aktiengesellschaft. Today SHB is part of Dihag Holding .
Products
SHB produces cast steel components for systems for raw material extraction, energy generation, vehicle and process engineering as well as for construction machinery. SHB components are used, among other things, in rail vehicles, cranes and oil production systems.
The chimney
The chimney on the SHB factory premises is visible from afar. The chimney of the steel and chilled cast iron works Bösdorf is with 205 m the highest structure in the city of Leipzig .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 44.8 " N , 12 ° 16 ′ 2.5" E