VEB fibreboard factory Ribnitz-Damgarten
| VEB fibreboard factory Ribnitz-Damgarten | |
|---|---|
| legal form | publicly-owned business |
| founding | 4th December 1953 |
| resolution | October 1, 1991 |
| Reason for dissolution | privatization |
| Seat | Ribnitz-Damgarten , German Democratic Republic |
| Number of employees | 1753 |
| sales | 177.3 million marks |
| Branch | Furniture making |
The VEB fiber board factory Ribnitz-Damgarten was a state- owned industrial enterprise of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). As the parent company of the VEB Möbel Kombinat Ribnitz-Damgarten with over 1700 employees, it was one of the most important manufacturers of hardboard and chipboard in the GDR and the largest employer in the city and the region.
Company history
The foundation stone was laid on December 4, 1953 by Willi-Peter Konzok, Deputy Minister for Light Industry and State Secretary of the GDR government . It was founded on the former premises of the Walther Bachmann aircraft construction plant in the Körkwitzer Weg in the Ribnitz district . Production began on December 16, 1955 after the factory had been set up. For economic reasons, fiberboard was initially produced from wood substitute materials such as rapeseed straw or oilseed straw . In 1956 the production of hard fiberboard began . In 1957 420 employees worked in a four-shift system with a turnover of four million marks and a production volume of 6500 m³ panels. After setting up the chipboard plant as a further part of the company, the number of employees rose to 610 in 1967 with a turnover of 21.7 million marks and a production volume of 22,000 m³. In 1969 preparations began for the introduction of medium-density fibreboard (MDF) into production . Trial operation with a new MDF plant from Sweden started in December 1972 and production started in 1973. At the same time, a new branch of production for living room and bedroom furniture was created. In September of the same year, a large part of the machines was destroyed by a dust explosion , so that production could only be resumed a year later.
In 1979, various living room furniture manufacturers and suppliers from the three GDR northern districts ( Rostock , Schwerin and Neubrandenburg ) with a total of 7,167 employees were united in the VEB Möbelkombinat Ribnitz-Damgarten . The largest part of the combine was the fiberboard factory with 1753 employees and a turnover of 177.3 million marks. Around 1400 solid cubic meters of wood were processed every day . The company also supplied West German companies a. a. the mail order company Quelle . As the products were sold successfully across Europe, the plant received awards from the GDR.
The company operated numerous social institutions such as children's holiday camps, holiday homes, sports and cultural clubs and kindergartens. A prefabricated housing estate and its own polyclinic for the employees and the population of the city were built near the factory .
The wastewater from the factory led to pollution of the environment, especially the nearby Bodden waters , over the entire period of the factory's existence .
Post-turnaround time
After the fall of the GDR , the company's Eastern European sales markets collapsed. The plant was privatized, divided into eight GmbHs and part of the Nord Möbel GmbH holding company. On July 5, 1990, a purchase intent was signed between the alleged investor Eduard Friedrich Kynder, the managing director of the holding and former combine director Bernhard Boeck and the Treuhandanstalt . After the lack of investment , several waves of layoffs and the jump of interested buyers, Kynder acquired the plant on October 1, 1991 for one mark . Kynder was accused of having stolen 55 million marks with the purchase of an old system, inflated bills and hidden profit distributions. Although the company was on the verge of bankruptcy , a total of 276 million marks were invested in subsidies from the federal government, the state and the trust. On July 31, 1996, the factory was unsuccessfully occupied by the remaining workforce . After several unsuccessful takeover attempts, the factory operating under the name “BESTWOOD” was closed in 1997.
Today (as of 2018) a few small businesses are located on the former 46-hectare company site , the majority of which is an industrial wasteland . The city of Ribnitz-Damgarten plans to redesign the site into a residential area.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas Ciesielski: Ribnitz-Damgarten: The day on which the trust came. Junge Welt , June 30, 1998, accessed August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Andreas Ciesielski: Once upon a time there was a VEB - The fiberboard factory in Ribnitz-Damgarten before 1989. Junge Welt, June 29, 1998, accessed on August 19, 2018 .
- ^ A b c Frank Burger: The era of the fiberboard factory. January 27, 2002, accessed August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ German Society for Marine Research (ed.): Communications . No. 1 , 1989, pp. 32 .
- ↑ Subsidies drained uselessly. Der Spiegel , February 5, 1996, accessed August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ State treasury emptied. TAZ , August 13, 1996, accessed August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Ciesielski: Bestwood: The company is occupied. Junge Welt, July 2, 1998, accessed August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Anika Wenning, Edwin Sternkiker: Movement on the Bestwood site. Ostseezeitung , February 28, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2018 .