Steimel (company)
| Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co.
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. |
| founding | 1878 |
| Seat | Johann-Steimel-Platz 1 53773 Hennef (Sieg) , Germany |
| management | Justus Volhard |
| Number of employees | 250 (November 2008) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.steimel.com |
The Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik is a manufacturer of pumps , industrial centrifuges , swarf crushers and chip conveyors for industrial applications based in Hennef (Sieg) in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
Johann Steimel founded a production company for the construction of agricultural machines in 1878. He produced threshing machines , hay tedders , seed drills and similar devices.
Around the middle of the 1880s, the production program was expanded to include hand-operated milk centrifuges. These became the most important sales drivers. In 1897 the company received the 1st prize (“Gold Medal with Diploma”) at the World Exhibition in Brussels for the “Ceres” milk centrifuge and also a medal for the milk centrifuges at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris . Until 1925, the company manufactured the cast blanks required for production in its own iron foundry. Before the First World War , blood separators and deoiling centrifuges were added for processing metal chips.
In order to compensate for the strongly reduced sales of private milk centrifuges due to the Milk and Fat Act , pump production was greatly expanded from around 1928; until then, only slurry pumps had been manufactured. A gear and centrifugal pump program sold well and brought the company out of the depths of the global economic crisis .
The centrifugal pumps , the company specialized in seawater-resistant self-priming centrifugal pumps as cooling water and bilge pumps for water-cooled marine diesel engines . Major manufacturers of large engines are customers of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co. The gear pumps , in addition to the conventional use as lubrication pumps also reinforced for special applications (paints, varnishes , chocolate , bitumen produced in collaboration with customers). The milk centrifuge business completely dried up after the Second World War and Steimel began to expand the industrial centrifuge program in the direction of automatically filling and emptying as well as continuously operated centrifuges .
Since then, based on centrifuge technology, complete chip processing systems including chip breakers and the associated conveying and separating technology have been designed and produced. The original drying centrifuges have become complex, fully automatic surface treatment systems in which mass-produced parts can be washed, dried and coated. The two product areas pumps and centrifuges share around half of the total sales.
The company has around 250 employees (as of January 2009). It is completely family-owned and has been run in the fourth generation by Norbert Peth, a great-grandson of the company's founder, since the beginning of 2002. In October 2013, Norbert Peth resigned as managing director of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co. Thomas Manth has been running the company together with Norbert Peth since April 2013 - alone since October 2013. Since the beginning of November 2019, Justus Volhard has been managing director of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co.
Company founder Johann Steimel
Award at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 for Steimel milk centrifuges
Historic advertisement for Steimel milk centrifuge POLAR
Steimel milk centrifuge with butter kneader
Historic advertising leaflet for the Steimel in-house dairy
Turning shop of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co. around 1905
Street naming in Hennef
On the occasion of the company's 125th anniversary, the city of Hennef named the square in front of the main building of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co. on June 27, 2003 at the intersection of Frankfurter Strasse and Steinstrasse as Johann-Steimel-Platz. In doing so, the city of Hennef (Sieg) honored the founder of the oldest industrial company still on site.
literature
- Friedrich Balensiefen and Helmut Fischer: Hennef an der Sieg then and now . European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1993, ISBN 978-90-288-5760-5 , 25. Steimel brothers around 1905.
- Claus Rudolf Baumgart: A historical-geographical analysis of the industrial development from Hennef an der Sieg up to the foundation of the Weimar Republic - with special consideration of the industrial spatial impact . Bonn 1985, p. 106-108, 118, 136, 142-144 .
- Helmut Fischer: Hennef on the victory. 91 villages - one city . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-815-7 , p. 44-46 .
- Helmut Fischer, Gisela Rupprath, Markus Heiligers: Contributions to the History of the City of Hennef - New Episode - Volume 5 . VVV, Hennef 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036019-0 , p. 5-24 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d company archive of Gebr. Steimel GmbH & Co., Hennef
- ^ Deutsches Museum , Munich
- ^ Hennef City Archives. City of Hennef, accessed on January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Steimel moves into the city map , In: Kölnische Rundschau - Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, June 28, 2003, number 147