KMD Group
The KMD Group , formerly Stolberger Metallwerke , is a German metal company in Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen city region . It is a German-Chinese joint venture of the companies KME SE (50%), Osnabrück, the Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube (34%), Henan Province PRC and the Chongqing Wanzhou Economy Technology Development Co. PRC (16%)
As a non-ferrous metal processing company, the KMD Group produces high-performance and coated strips made of copper and copper alloys for the automotive and electrical industries, including rolled strips, both with a bare and hot-dip tinned surface. The products are also known under the brand name STOL . They are used in plug connections, switches and contacts, computers, telecommunications, electronics and other products.
history
The company was created in 1933 from the merger of the two brass processing companies von Asten & Lynen, founded by Julius von Asten and Christian Lynen in 1858 on the site of the old Kupferhof Frankental, and the company Matthias Ludolf Schleicher Sohn , founded in 1822 on the grounds of the Untersten Hof . The two production sites were first leased by the Stolberger Metallwerke before the property, including buildings and facilities, passed into their ownership in 1967. In 1969 the cable and metal works Gute Hoffnungshütte Hannover took over 49% of the limited partnership capital . In 1987 all shares came into the possession of the cable and metal works Osnabrück .
In the 1990s, the company acquired the northern part of Kupfermeisterstraße and was able to merge its production facilities east and west of the street.
In the Second World War , the entry of the Stolberger Metallwerke into armaments production, v. a. infantry ammunition marked the beginning of the massive labor deployment of Soviet forced laborers .
Between 1974 and 1981, the Stolberger Metallwerke, the main emitter of these substances in Stolberg, reduced the emission of solids from 195,000 kg / a (including 153,000 kg / a zinc ) so much that in 1981 they only reduced 1.5% of the solid matter emissions and 2 , Represented 7% of the zinc emissions of the Stolberg companies.
In 2003, Stolberger Metallwerke GmbH & Co. KG merged with KM Europa Metal AG . Since then, the company has been called KME Stolberger Metallwerk with its headquarters in Frankentalstrasse.
In 2014, the KME Stolberger Metallwerke became the KMD Group .
literature
- Hamacher, Richard: History of the Stolberg industry without considering the brass industry since 1815 - An overview of contributions to the Stolberg history and local history, Vol. 7, Stolberg 1956.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Home | KMD Group. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
- ^ Krebs, Stefan: Forced labor in Stolberg / Rhld: a first inventory. Burg-Verl. Gastinger, 2003. (Contributions to the Stolberg History, Vol. 26). ISBN 3-926830-17-4 ( PDF ( Memento of July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Home | KMD Group. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .