Trimet aluminum
| Trimet Aluminum SE
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| legal form | SE (Societas Europaea) |
| founding | 1985 as Trimet Metallhandelsgesellschaft mbH |
| Seat | Essen , Germany |
| management | Board:
Chair of the supervisory board:
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| Number of employees | 1,662 (06/30/2019) |
| sales | 1.2 billion euros (2018/19) |
| Branch | aluminum |
| Website | www.trimet.de |
| As of November 6, 2019 | |
The TRIMET aluminum SE (proper notation: trimet ) is a group of independent German aluminum producers .
The company produces primary aluminum , also known as primary aluminum , which is extracted from bauxite , in Essen , Hamburg , Voerde and in a subsidiary in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne as well as secondary aluminum from scrap aluminum in Gelsenkirchen and Harzgerode . Furthermore, after the majority of the shares have been surrendered, it still has a 25% stake in BOHAI TRIMET Automotive Holding GmbH, which is based in Harzgerode and SömmerdaManufactures aluminum die-cast parts for the automotive industry. At the two French locations of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Castelsarrasin , aluminum wire is manufactured, which is processed into electrical cables in the energy industry and into connecting elements in the automotive industry. Another business area is the associated aluminum trading and development services.
history
Founded on May 7, 1985 by Heinz-Peter Schlueter as a trading company for metal in Düsseldorf , Trimet Aluminum SE was converted into a stock corporation in 1988. In 1993 she acquired the Gelsenkirchen recycling plant for aluminum, followed in 1994 by the step into primary aluminum production with the purchase of the aluminum smelter in Essen. Two die casting foundries in Sömmerda ( Thuringia ) and Harzgerode ( Saxony-Anhalt ) were added in 2001.
In order to increase its capacities, Trimet bought the aluminum smelter ( electrolysis plant ) and the anode works of the Hamburg aluminum works (HAW), which had been shut down the year before, on November 10, 2006 . The first negotiations had already taken place in October 2005, but failed. In 2007, Trimet reopened the aluminum smelter in Hamburg-Altenwerder, which had been closed by the previous owners . For this, Trimet was awarded in 2011 in the Oskar Patzelt Foundation's Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises .
In December 2013 Trimet took over two production plants in France with a total of 500 employees. In May 2014 Trimet took over the aluminum smelter and anode factory of the insolvent Voerde Aluminum GmbH with 280 employees.
Trimet was awarded the innovation prize “NRW - Wirtschaft im Wandel” in 2015 for the “Virtual Battery” project and in 2018 for the “Vocational Training for Refugees” project.
In August 2018, Trimet brings its automotive division into a joint venture with the Chinese automotive specialist Bohai Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. which belongs to the BAIC Group ( Beijing Automotive Group ). The merger strengthens the two die-casting locations in Harzgerode and Sömmerda.
Since the end of November 2018, Philipp Schlüter - the oldest son of the company founder - has headed the operational management of TRIMET as CEO. On October 1, 2019, Holger Stemmler took over the position of CFO from Martin Söffge, who has retired.
Social responsibility
Trimet has already been awarded the “Ökoprofit” seal several times. Trimet has received the Work plus seal of the Evangelical Church in Germany EKD three times for its social commitment, among other things for the positive employment development, the hiring and takeover of the unemployed and the elderly as well as for special working time models. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy awarded Trimet (KS ATAG Trimet Guss GmbH, Harzgerode) in 2015 for the exemplary integration of young foreign employees with the “Company Prize for a Welcome Culture”.
As part of “We Together - Integration Initiatives of German Business”, Trimet sets an example with the “Vocational Training for Refugees” project and ensures that 66 refugees can do an apprenticeship at Trimet.
The energy management system at the Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Harzgerode and Voerde locations is certified in accordance with DIN EN 50001 .
power consumption
According to a report by the taz , the company used around 1% of electricity in Germany (as of 2011). In 2014, consumption is said to have been 4.2 billion kilowatt hours, i.e. around 0.7% of Germany's gross electricity generation .
The greater fluctuations in the power grid due to the feed-in of regenerative energies are to be partially compensated for by means of a load-dependent (± 25%) large consumer; for this purpose, the group introduced the misleading name “virtual battery”, which falsely suggests that it is possible to feed back the electricity. The measure is also funded with EU funds. A third of the production at the Essen site can work for up to an hour without power or use more power than normal. Trial operation has been running since 2019.
When there is a shortage of electricity due to green electricity, the aluminum smelters are increasingly being taken off the grid temporarily. In February 2014 this was the case once for an hour, in the first half of 2015 45 times, in June 2019 31 times.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aluwerk will officially go into operation tomorrow. (Pdf) In: Hamburger Abendblatt. www.abendblatt.de, August 8, 2007, p. 19 , accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Press releases. Trimet, November 26, 2018, accessed November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Press releases. www.trimet.eu, October 1, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Reasons for the certificate ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Company award for a more welcoming culture, website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vocational training for refugees. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Renewable energies: break bonus for large consumers. taz.de, November 14, 2011, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Aluminum production in Germany: Dirty, expensive, superfluous. www.tagesschau.de, February 25, 2014, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Virtual battery as power storage . In: www.giesserei-praxis.de . ( giesserei-praxis.de [accessed December 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Virtual battery. www.trimet.eu, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b The factory as electricity storage. www.dw.com, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Frank Messing: Too little electricity - Trimet hut switched off for an hour. www.waz.de, March 11, 2014, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2014-15, p. 34
- ↑ Trimet's aluminum huts went off the grid. news-und-nachrichten.de, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ aluminum plants Trimet went from the mains. In: Rheinische Post. www.presseportal.de, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
