ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies

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ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1859
Seat Beckum , Germany
Number of employees 5500
sales EUR 2 billion
Branch Plant construction

ThyssenKrupp logo until 2015
Polysius in Neubeckum

ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies GmbH (formerly Polysius ) was a company based in Essen and Neubeckum and around 5,500 employees worldwide, which sold systems and machines for the cement and ore industry. The company has merged into thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions .

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From 1946 until today, the headquarters of Polysius AG has been in Beckum- Neubeckum, Westphalia . Polysius employs around 1300 people there; The global workforce of the Polysius Group with planning companies in southern France, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, USA, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore and China comprises around 2000 employees. At the location in Neubeckum there is an in-house production of large parts, which is unusual for engineering companies, for main components in heating, grinding and dosing technology with around 150 production employees. At the location in Pimpri / Poona , India, an own planning subsidiary has access to the Indian production with approx. 4000 employees. In 2010 another production facility near Shanghai went into operation.

Company history

1859 to 1940

The company was founded in Dessau : Around Easter 1859, master locksmith Gottfried Polysius opened a workshop with an apprentice in Dessau and laid the foundation for today's company with the locksmith's shop and the manufacture of safes. On May 23, 1870 he founded the G. Polysius iron foundry and machine factory, which established itself with self-constructed and powerful mills in the then still young building materials industry. Göpel and vibrating sieves were built next to safes .

In addition to agricultural machinery, Polysius also produced grain mills, brewery and distillery equipment. He was particularly involved in the emerging beet sugar industry. From then on, Polysius specialized in size reduction and processing machines. The construction of cement works became particularly important. After Polysius' death, his sons Otto and Max Polysius successfully continued the company. In 1898 the first cement rotary kiln was designed and manufactured in Europe. In 1907 the first cement factory completely planned by Polysius was built. In 1912 the Jesabruch plant was built for the Prüssing Group .

At the end of the 1920s, Georg Lellep and his colleague Bernd Helming developed a process under the name LEPOL® that revolutionized conventional cement production. LEPOL® developed a significantly better cement burning process in the rotary kiln and reduced fuel consumption by a third.

Development after the war

After the end of the Second World War, Polysius returned to Dessau in 1946. At the same time, Bernd Helming and Curt Prüssing, a son-in-law of Max Polysius , founded Westpol GmbH in Beckum, which was renamed Polysius GmbH three years later. Prüssing and Bernd Helming also formed the board of directors after the GmbH was later converted into an AG. The Dessau factory was expropriated by the Russian administration in 1946 and later renamed VEB Zementanlagenbau. Just 10 years after the new start, Polysius had 600 employees in Germany and 100 abroad. In 1971 the Essen firm acquired Fried. Krupp GmbH the majority of the capital in Polysius.

Since 1990

1992 Integration of Krupp Polysius into the Krupp plant construction division - a group structure of Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp. 140 years after the company was founded, in 1999, it merged with the Thyssen Group to form ThyssenKrupp. Polysius is part of the international ThyssenKrupp Technologies division.

Polysius strengthened its position in the lime kiln (Maerz AG in Zurich ) and services (AC Equipment Corp., USA) sectors through acquisitions . In October 2009 the company's 150th anniversary was celebrated with three-day festivities in Neubeckum.

A resolution by the corporate management led to the merger of Polysius with ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbH and the renaming of both companies under ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies GmbH. In the course of the transformation, the stock corporation became a GmbH, the board members became managing directors, and the registered office of the newly named GmbH was moved to the group headquarters in Essen. In connection with the changes that began with the departure of two older Polysius board members in December 2012, the younger board members for technology and sales as well as corporate management also left the company. With the exception of a managing director who was recalled by Uhde (and former Polysius board member), today's management is carried out by conveyor technology managers.

In 2014, the two previously independent plant engineering companies ThyssenKrupp Uhde and ThyssenKrupp Resource Technologies were merged and thus founded thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions with headquarters in Essen . The company offers chemical, refinery and industrial plants as well as related services such as planning, maintenance and training.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b website of the company; accessed on January 18, 2014
  2. ^ Letter from the Soviet military administration to the owner, exhibit in the company history exhibition in the communication center of Polysius AG, Neubeckum
  3. ↑ 150 Years Engineering made by Polysius, book on the company history of Polysius AG, German / English, Michael Knieriem
  4. ↑ Excerpts from the commercial register