Technical glass works Ilmenau

Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1994
resolution	June 30, 2014
Seat	Ilmenau , Germany
management	Hartmut Kainer
Branch	Glass
Website	www.tgi-glas.com

Factory view

The Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH (TGI) were a manufacturer of laboratory equipment of glass with about 225 employees. The company was based in Ilmenau ( Thuringia ). In 2014 it was declared bankrupt.

The TGI were the largest company in the secondary economic sector (manufacturing industry) in Ilmenau.

production

Products manufactured were tubular glass , glass rods and capillaries (about 30%), housekeeping glass (about 30%), laboratory glass products (about 25%), safety sight glasses and lighting glass (about 15%). These were made from borosilicate glass and soda-lime glass and melted in three fully electrically operated melting tanks, while another glass melting tank had been out of service since 2010. A specialty was the manual manufacturing process for borosilicate products; special products could be manufactured according to customer requirements - even in smaller piece sizes.

Protected brands, the rights of which were owned by the company, are the product and material names Ilmabor, Ilmadur and Ilmatherm that were created during the GDR era .

About 30% of the products were sold in Germany and about 70% were exported .

history

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The history of glass production in Ilmenau goes back to the 19th century. The TGI had essentially three subsidiaries namely Founded in 1852, Sophie hut , which dealt with the production of glass, and the Thuringian Glass Instrument Factory Old, Eberhardt & Hunter (founded in 1872, processing of the raw glass for thermometers and other glass instruments), the 1969 Kombinat VEB work for Technisches Glas Ilmenau - parent company of VEB Kombinat Technisches Glas were merged. After the political change, VEB Technisches Glas Ilmenau was converted into a GmbH with the company name Ilmenauer Glaswerke GmbH , a trust subsidiary, under the umbrella of the holding Glasring Thüringen AG created from VEB Kombinat Technisches Glas Ilmenau . Many of the approximately 13,000 employees of the former combine for technical glass lost their jobs.

The company Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH , hereinafter referred to as TGI, was founded in 1994 by Karl-Albrecht Geiß. This took over the core areas of the former Ilmenauer Glaswerke GmbH, which was liquidated. TGI thus represents a successor in the historical sense. However, it was not a legal successor to Ilmenauer Glaswerke GmbH.

At the end of 2006 the investment company MEP Management + Equity Partners AG from Hamburg joined as the majority shareholder with a 76% stake. On October 30, 2008, the two-year investment phase, during which four new melting tanks and modern machine and automation systems were built, was completed. In 2013, a legal dispute was pending between around 180 employees and the company regarding the granting of profit sharing for 2010 in a volume of around € 480,000 before the Erfurt Regional Labor Court, after these employees were successful in the first instance at the Suhl Labor Court and the management appealed against these decisions had inserted. This litigation was based on the balance sheet published for the 2010 calendar year, which showed a profit, the interpretation of which was in dispute between the parties. On May 9, 2014, the Erfurt District Court opened preliminary insolvency proceedings over the assets of TGI (see Thüringer Allgemeine May 12, 2014). In this context, the managing director Dr. Kainer - at the same time spokesman for the board of directors of MEP AG and its main shareholder, initiated an investigation into suspected bankruptcy and breach of trust. The proceedings have since been discontinued. The final insolvency proceedings were opened by the Erfurt District Court due to overindebtedness on June 1, 2014 under transaction number 172 IN 190/14. The dissolution of the company was entered in the commercial register of the Jena local court on June 30, 2014 under HRB 303358.

The successor company Ilmaborglass GmbH shut down operations at the end of 2015.

Product gallery

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  800 ml cup, low shape

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  100 ml beaker, low shape

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  500 ml distillation flask, with three necks

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  300 ml Erlenmeyer flask , standard ground joint

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Investigations into possible delay in bankruptcy ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , mdr.de, accessed on July 21, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Employer appeals 180 complaints from his employees , Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung of March 30, 2013. Accessed on April 9, 2013.
3. ↑ List of shareholders of the TGI Commercial Register Jena 303358
4. ↑ Hamburg Commercial Register HRB 95735 and [1]
5. ↑ Thuringian General May 14, 2014.
6. ↑ Ilmaborglass - the successor to the Ilmenau glass works will be shut down at the end of October. In: Thuringian General . September 24, 2015, accessed July 5, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  E