Turbon works
The Turbon Werke GmbH was a company of mechanical engineering in Berlin , the components for the entire air technology as well as ventilation and air conditioning systems provided for all areas.
Products
The component construction included axial, radial, wind tunnel, roof, smoke gas and cooling tower fans . Other components were air heaters, air conditioning cabinets, drying cabinets, steel furniture, vending machines and cigarette machines.
The plant engineering department planned, manufactured and installed ventilation systems for industrial, residential and office buildings for department stores, hotels and airports. Systems for clean rooms were supplied for the chemical and electrical industries.
Other products were drying and dedusting systems for industry. Boiler fans, supply and exhaust air fans were supplied for shipbuilding, as well as special circulating air fans for the cooling rooms of the fishing fleets. Special fans for the nuclear power plants of the Federal Republic of Germany were delivered and installed.
The company archive is now in the collection of the German Museum in Munich .
history
The origin of the company began in Berlin in 1907 at Panzer AG (manufacturer of safes and steel furniture), when the associated company Taifun Ventilatoren AG produced fans with a particularly quiet DRP corrugated impeller developed by Otto Steltzner (the forerunner of today's Drum rotor) were manufactured. These fans were very compact and z. B. therefore particularly important for the merchant fleet of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The name Taifun was later changed to Turbon Ventilatoren GmbH.
In 1914 Willi Cobler was responsible for Turbon Ventilatoren GmbH within Panzer AG. 1923 Conversion of the company to Turbon Ventilatoren und Apparate AG with simultaneous relocation of fan production from Badstrasse in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen to Berlin-Reinickendorf to Graf-Roedern-Allee. Willi Cobler was appointed sole director of the AG. In 1925 there were around 100 employees in the plant.
In 1928 Turbon Ventilatoren und Apparate AG was dissolved and a new company was founded under the old name Turbon Ventilatoren GmbH. Willi Cobler became a member of the board and two years later took over Turbon Ventilatoren GmbH; In 1936 his son Walter W. Cobler became the sole managing director.
In 1940 another production facility was built in Seifhennersdorf (Lausitz). The total workforce in both plants was now around 1,000. 300 employees in Seifhennersdorf alone manufactured and supplied fans for the submarines of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War , 74 of which were built at the Bremer Vulkan shipyard alone .
In 1945 the entire plant I in Berlin was dismantled as a result of the lost war. The factory in Seifhennersdorf was lost through expropriation. In June, Turbon Ventilatoren GmbH was granted another business license for the Berlin plant.
In 1950 the company set up a sheet metal processing branch in Dorsten / Westphalia (Plant II).
1952–1953 a new administration and workshop building was built in Plant I.
In 1957, another plant in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Plant III) was put into operation. The pure sheet metal production was concentrated here. Now there were again 540 employees in all plants.
1960 Firmont, a manufacturer of textile dryers, was taken over.
Between 1961 and 1962, a new administration and workshop building was built in Plant I. In 1963, another production site (Plant II) was set up in Strücklingen / Oldenburg for sheet metal duct production and the plant in Dorsten was given up.
In 1966, Michael Palmer developed an axial impeller made of cast aluminum with blades that can be adjusted at standstill and a high degree of efficiency. Many licenses have been issued for this wheel (see picture).
In 1970, the founder's son sold the entire Turbon Werke GmbH company with 624 employees to Deutsche Babcock & Wilcox AG, which was later converted into Babcock-Borsig AG in Oberhausen.
In 1971, fan production moved to the factory of Borsig GmbH in Berlin-Tegel, which later belonged to Babcock AG.
In 1972 the 110,000th post-war fan was delivered.
In 1973 Babcock-Borsig AG transferred the entire fan division (sales and production) to the subsidiary Büttner-Schilde-Haas Aktiengesellschaft in Bad Hersfeld, which was converted into Babcock-BSH in 1977 . The area of ventilation and air conditioning was transferred together with the sales offices of the Babcock subsidiary Tunzini-Klimatechnik in Bergisch Gladbach . This was sold on to the M + W Group in 2001 , which transferred the area to YIT Germany in 2005 .
In 1975 Turbon Werke GmbH in Berlin was dissolved.
photos
- Fans
Centrifugal fan with a patented DRP corrugated ring impeller
Axial impeller with adjustable blades at standstill
Axial fan with a cast aluminum impeller
Centrifugal fan as a ship's boiler fan with swirl throttle
- Branch plants
Production hall Plant II (Strücklingen / Oldenburg)
Production hall Plant III (Berlin / Montanstrasse)
literature
- Turbon - 50 years of air technology , Elsner Berlin 1958
- Turbon - 60 years of air technology , Elsner Berlin 1968
- Turbon - The way of a company , Berlin 1972