Kranbau Koethen
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1934 |
| Seat | Koethen , Germany |
| management | Oliver Nitzsche (Managing Director) Sebastian Zahn (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | approx. 250 (2019) |
| sales | approx. 49 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.kranbau.de |
| As of September 18, 2019 | |
The Kranbau Köthen GmbH is a company of Central Germany , which specializes in special, process and automatic cranes. At the Koethen location , crane systems are produced as bridge cranes , semi- portal cranes or portal cranes for customers in the steel processing or steel-producing industry.
history
1934 (38) - crane construction
The designer Carl Gensel, professor at the Friedrichs-Polytechnikum in Köthen, founded a machine factory in Köthen in 1934 - a company for lifting technology and crane construction . The company later became "VEB Kranbau Köthen".
1935 (41) - conveyor systems
With the purchase of the former Wagner works (approx. 2 km from location I) in 1935 by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke Dessau, a branch of Junkers-Werke was founded in Köthen. In 1950, after the transfer to public ownership, the “VEB ABUS Förderanlagenbau Köthen” emerged from the Köthen engine manufacturing branch. The main content of the production was equipment for the coal industry.
1971 (merger of crane construction and conveyor systems)
Both companies belonged to the TAKRAF network and began exporting their products in the mid-1950s. While crane construction had strong positions in Austria, Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany, conveyor construction mainly delivered to Eastern Europe. On January 1, 1971, the two companies "VEB ABUS Förderanlagenbau" and "VEB Kranbau Köthen" merged to form "VEB Förderanlagen- und Kranbau Köthen". The aim of the merger was the more effective use of the investments in the cutting, elimination of the limitation of the span and weights of crane bridge girders caused by the structural conditions in operating part II.
Delivery program from 1971
- Belt spreaders with conveying capacities from 550 to 23,000 m³ / h and boom lengths from 45 to 150 m
- Direct fall spreader with delivery rates of 2500 to 12,500 m³ / h and boom lengths of 105 to 225 m
- Belt trolleys with belt widths up to 2,500 mm and bridging lengths from 40 to 114 m
- Stockpile devices with conveying capacities from 450 to 12,500 m³ / h
- Bridge cranes for metallurgy , shipbuilding, handling of bulk and general cargo up to 450 t
- Gantry cranes
- Components for opencast mining equipment
- General repairs, reconstructions and performance improvements of spreaders , belt wagons and cranes
- Road, rail and pedestrian bridges
- Steel and mechanical engineering components
- pressureless containers, tanks, storage containers
- Agitator tank
- Weldments
- Crane tracks
- Steel halls
- Hydraulic steel construction
- Railings, platforms, frame structures, catwalks, pallets
- Assembly work (workshop assembly and external assembly)
- Tool and fixture construction
- Project planning and development of constructive and technological solutions
After 1990
The joint venture was converted into a GmbH of the same name on July 1, 1990 and belonged to TAKRAF AG in Leipzig. A small part of the VEB became Alpha-Electronik GmbH.
In 1992 he came to the handover of the opencast mining technology. Under the name "Kranbau Köthen GmbH" the focus was on the production of crane technology. In 1993, the company was privatized by Willenborg Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & CO KG from Vechta. The resumption of the production of opencast mining technology was under the name "Förderanlagen- und Kranbau Köthen GmbH".
However, in 1997, significant slumps in the conveyor system business forced the conveyor systems business area to be abandoned. After renaming to Kranbau Köthen GmbH, the company expanded its services in 1996/97 by taking over the personnel and know-how of other crane construction companies from Saxony-Anhalt, but in July 1997 it got into trouble itself and led to the final transfer of the opencast mining technology to FAM. As Kranbau Köthen GmbH, only bridge, portal and portal slewing cranes were manufactured again.
In July 1998, with the second privatization by Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH, consolidation took place. The saucepan in the logo, which symbolizes the “boiling steel” and which was continued as a brand until 2017 and renewed at the beginning of 2018, also came from this time. In the 70 years of Kranbau Köthen until 2004, over 5000 cranes were delivered to customers worldwide.
In 2007 Alpha Elektronik GmbH was re-added to the group and the portfolio was expanded to include control technology, software, automation and computer technology. Saalfelder Hebezeugbau GmbH has also been part of the group since 2008 and has expanded the company's services to include:
- Design, manufacture and assembly of standard and process cranes (loads up to 250 t)
- Components (brakes, wheels, buffers, etc.)
The Stalvoss - Witten engineering team has also been part of the crane group since May 1, 2017. With the strategic acquisition, crane construction expanded its range of services in the areas of project planning, order processing and engineering.
In 2013, all sister companies operated under the intermediate holding GMH-Krantechnik. In addition, the company M + O Krantechnik GmbH was taken over in order to expand the crane service in North Rhine-Westphalia. The sister company, Saalfelder Hebezeugbau GmbH, developed and built fully automatic parking systems under the SHB Park & Store brand until 2016. In August 2016, however, the company had to file for bankruptcy and was taken over by Scheffer Krantechnik GmbH in 2018.
With retroactive effect from January 1, 2018, the companies Alpha Elektronik GmbH, M + O Krantechnik GmbH, Ingenieurbüro Krantechnik GmbH and Kranbau Köthen GmbH merged. The sister companies went into crane construction. The Alpha logo was retained as a brand in the new design.
Corporate structure
Kranbau Köthen GmbH is a subsidiary of GMH-Krantechnik GmbH, which in turn can be assigned to STEGO Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH.
Process cranes
Process cranes for steel production and handling are cranes that are exposed to high loads in production. They run 24 hours a day and are firmly integrated in the company's production process.
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Gantry cranes
Gantry cranes are used in storage and transshipment areas as full or semi-gantry cranes in solid wall or lattice construction.
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Honors
For its share in the scientific and technical achievements in the research, development and construction of new type of belt spreaders, which have achieved exemplary results in the movement of debris in their practical use at home and abroad, the collective "belt separator" of the VEB Förderanlagen- und Kranbau Köthen 1971 with the National Prize of the GDR III. Excellent for science and technology .
In 1985, the development and construction collective of VEB Förderanlagen- und Kranbau Köthen was awarded the national prize of the GDR in the second class for science and technology for the development of devices for the implementation of highly effective opencast mining technologies .
Web links
- Official website of Kranbau Koethen
- Official website of Saalfelder Hebezeugbau
- State archive Saxony-Anhalt
- German photo library
- German digital library
- Private picture collection
- Literature from and about BPO VEB Förderanlagen- und Kranbau Köthen in the catalog of the German National Library