EppsteinFOILS

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EppsteinFOILS GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1852
Seat Eppstein , Germany
management Dirk Mälzer
Number of employees approx. 100 (2018)
sales approx. EUR 25 million
Branch Technical metal foils
Website www.eppsteinfoils.de

View of Eppstein. The factory premises in the foreground.

The EppsteinFOILS GmbH & Co. KG is a medium-sized company for rolled NE - metal foils for highly specialized applications, based in the Hessian town Eppstein . With its thin special films and its numerous patents, the company is an innovative pioneer and at the same time, as a hidden champion, the world market leader. The most well-known product, which was manufactured until 2013, was tinsel .

history

Typical advertising image of the factory from 1900

The company was founded in 1852 as a lead mill Conrad Sachs. The company moved to its current location in 1870. As early as 1897, aluminum was rolled into thin foils. In 1904, tinsel was registered with the Imperial Patent Office . As an Eppsteiner Stanniolfabrik, aluminum, lead and tin foils were further processed by means of printing, dyeing and cutting in the 1920s . In the past, the production and sale of tinsel had a significant share in sales, but sales fell significantly around the turn of the millennium and were 0.01% when production was discontinued in 2013. A defect in the production machine led to the cessation of production, as a repair would have been uneconomical. In 2017, EppsteinFOILS was a finalist in the Hessen-Champions 2017 competition in the world market leader category .

Current range

EppsteinFOILS produces around 50 different foils made of lead and tin, which are used in conjunction with other materials in electronics and materials testing. Other foils are used for the electrodes in defibrillators or the X-ray foils at the dentist. EppsteinFOILS has also been producing films for solar modules since 2015 . Development of this product started back in 2009.

A subsidiary, Eppstein Technologies GmbH, was founded in 2012 to develop new products. Part of the profits of EppsteinFOILS are invested there in product development. To this end, the company cooperates with technology centers, research institutes and universities.

Office building of the Eppstein steel factory

Office building of the Eppstein steel factory

From 1852 the factory was located in the Hintergasse in Eppstein. After necessary extensions to the old location were no longer possible, a new factory site was created in 1870 in the area of ​​the former Bannmühle . The factory is still located there today. The Bannmühle was laid out in 1482 by the Lords of Eppstein and given a long lease. Until the beginning of the 19th century, 12 Eppstein villages and the Häusel farm were obliged to have mills here. The production buildings are unadorned industrial architecture from the end of the 19th century. In 1904, an office building for the Stanniolfabrik Eppstein based on plans by the architect Carl Wilhelm Plöcker was built on the edge of the factory premises at 83 Burgstrasse . The office building is expanded like a villa and adorned with gothic ornamental framework in the high attic zone. The building has three floors and faces the street on the eaves. The ground floor with two dwelling houses is faced with Taunus slate. Important structural elements are the buttress-like reinforced corners and the representative entrance in the flat risalit . The office building of the Stanniolfabrik Eppstein is protected as a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons . The factory is part of the route of the Rhein-Main-Main-Taunus-Kreis industrial culture .

See also

literature

  • Berthold Picard: History in Eppstein: a guide through the districts of Bremthal, Ehlhalten, Eppstein, Niederjosbach and Vockenhausen. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-7829-0442-7 , pp. 75-76.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d There used to be more tinsel: How the "Eppstein Foils" stannic oil factory reinvented itself. Höchst Kreisblatt, August 30, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Overview of the patents for Stanniolfabrik Eppstein on Google Scholar
  3. ↑ a b Hessen Champion Finalist. Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development , accessed on September 17, 2018 .
  4. ^ Eppstein Foils GmbH & Co. KG. CornerstoneCapital Verwaltungs AG, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Manfred Becht: Modern solar foils replace tinsel. Höchst Kreisblatt , February 4, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Bollwahn: Without Maria, no tinsel. taz , December 24, 2003, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  7. ^ Hanging Tinsel Used To Be A Health Hazard. National Geographic , December 20, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Quiet farewell to the tinsel. Höchst Kreisblatt , December 24, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Inga Michler: Christmas trends: Germans just don't want tinsel any more. welt.de , December 22, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Burgstrasse 83 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  11. ↑ Entry on the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 43"  E