ThyssenKrupp Uhde
| ThyssenKrupp Uhde | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1921 |
| Seat | Dortmund , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 4,900 (February 2011) |
| sales | 1.54 billion euros (2007/2008) |
| Branch | Plant construction |
| Website | www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com |
The ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH was a global engineering company in the field of planning and construction of chemical, refining and other industrial plants within the ThyssenKrupp -Konzernes and was restructuring in the ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG incorporated.
Subsidiaries and affiliated companies are on site worldwide. The fields of work include: fertilizers , electrolysis , gas technology, oil, coal and residue gasification, refinery technology , organic intermediates, polymers and synthetic fibers as well as coke oven technology and high-pressure technology . Uhde offers solutions in industrial plant construction as well as the services of an EPC contractor.
history
The plant construction company Uhde was founded in 1921 by the engineer Friedrich Uhde in Dortmund-Bövinghausen . Between 1925 and 1928 Uhde developed its own production process for the manufacture of ammonia . On this basis, the work areas 'Planning and construction of nitric acid and nitrogen fertilizer plants' and high pressure technology were created.
In 1952, after the liquidation of the IG Farben concern, the chemical plant manufacturer Uhde was taken over by Hoechst , and the entire N division was assigned to him within the group . Due to the huge portfolio of the chemical group with its affiliated companies, the Uhdes business areas expanded continuously and worldwide to include new areas of work such as B. Chlor-alkali electrolysis , plants for the production of organic chemicals and plastics .
As part of a compensation business , Uhde built a modern plant for the production of PVC from 1976 to 1980 in the Buna works in the GDR .
In 1996, Hoechst sold the Uhde engineering company to the Krupp Group as part of its group dissolution proceedings. Uhde was assigned to the new owner's plant construction division, which at that time consisted of the companies Krupp Fördertechnik, Krupp Polysius (cement plant construction) and Krupp Koppers (coking and chemical plant construction). At the beginning of 1997, Krupp Koppers merged with Uhde.
After the merger of Krupp and Thyssen in 1999, the new large concern ThyssenKrupp refocused its plant engineering activities and Uhde became a company of ThyssenKrupp Technologies, the technology segment of ThyssenKrupp.
In 2003 Uhde received the order for the world's largest ammonia plants in Saudi Arabia ( Jubail ). The world's largest chlor-alkali electrolysis plant based on the membrane process will go into operation at the same location in 2015 .
Between 2003 and 2005, Uhde opened up further new business areas through acquisitions and holdings: crude oil refinery plants ( Edeleanu ), polyester , polyamide and polylactide plants ( Uhde Inventa-Fischer ). Uhde Inventa-Fischer is now run as an independent company in the corporate group. Inventa-Fischer has three locations: Berlin, Domat-Ems (Switzerland) and Shanghai.
In 2014, the industrial group ThyssenKrupp merged two previously independent plant engineering companies under one roof. The German companies ThyssenKrupp Uhde and ThyssenKrupp Ressource Technologies were merged to form ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG. At the same time, ThyssenKrupp-electrolysis GmbH was spun off as a subsidiary with headquarters in Dortmund. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG is headquartered in Essen.
Products
The company offers chemical, refinery and industrial plants as well as related services such as planning, maintenance and training.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Gerlach: Build up! Western workers in the GDR. In: programm.ARD.de. phoenix, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ^ Thyssen-Krupp press release of May 5, 2003
- ↑ Presentation of the SADARA project (p. 14) ( Memento of the original from April 3, 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 7 ° 29 ′ 1.1 ″ E