Torgelow iron foundry

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Iron foundry Torgelow GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding July 1, 1993
Seat Torgelow , Germany
management
  • Peter Krumhoff
  • Rüdiger Schulz
Number of employees 456 (2015)
sales
Website www.eisengiesserei-torgelow.de

The iron foundry Torgelow GmbH (EGT) is a metal processing company in Torgelow in Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . After the reunification, the company emerged from the VEB foundry and mechanical engineering "Max Matern" Torgelow .

history

After the search for lawn iron ore , which was carried out in 1752 on the orders of the Prussian King Friedrich II in the Ueckermünder Heide , was successful, the king issued a cabinet order on December 25, 1753 for the construction of a steelworks . After the commissioning of the first modern blast furnace in Torgelow, the following trades followed. In addition to armaments, iron agricultural implements were mainly produced.

When the available lawn iron ore deposits were exhausted, scrap and imported pig iron were increasingly used . For that were cupolas purchased. The operation of the blast furnace was stopped in 1858, the steel works privatized in 1861. In addition to the work taken over from the sculptor Theodor Vollgold, numerous start-ups were established from 1875 onwards.

At the beginning of the First World War , there were 14 iron foundries in Torgelow, each with 100 to 300 employees. After the war, the companies had to switch back to the production of civil goods. The main sales markets were Berlin (70 percent), northern and central Germany as well as Scandinavia and the Baltic States .

The Second World War made it necessary to switch to armaments products again. The projectiles and bombs produced were processed in the nearby ammunition plant . After the war began, prisoners of war were used in the factories . In 1941, the “Black Earth” camp held more than 1,000 prisoners. Later, the number of forced laborers was around 3,000, who were housed in 18, partly company-owned camps.

After the end of the war in 1945, production was gradually resumed in most of the factories. There was relatively little war damage and mostly only partial dismantling. Only the more modern Haller II factory , which had produced for the ammunition plant, was brought to the Soviet Union as reparation . By the end of April 1948, the remaining companies were converted into public property. From April 1, 1949, they were grouped under the name “United Torgelower Foundries” (VTG). Several new buildings were erected over the next few years: a large central cleaning shop in 1950, a large casting hall in 1953 and in 1954 the production area foundry 1 (FG-1). The molding shops were largely mechanized.

The foundries were merged in October 1969 to form VEB Gießerei- und Maschinenbau "Max Matern" Torgelow (GMT). The state-owned operation was after in the GDR glorified KPD -member Max Matern named in Torgelow former had learned. It was mainly produced for GDR shipbuilding and electrical engineering. Further modernizations took place in the 1980s: modern molding machines, a fully automatic potting device and an electrohydraulic core removal system were used. Induction furnaces were installed for the smelting operation .

In 1988 and 1989, GMT employed over 2,300 people. In 1988 almost 30,000 tons of gray cast iron and other products worth 140 million GDR marks were manufactured. After the fall of the Wall , GMT fell into a crisis when its most important sales market, the GDR shipbuilding industry, collapsed. Numerous parts of the company were shut down and the halls were later demolished.

After an aluminum and brass foundry had already been founded by former employees in 1992, "Eisenguss Torgelow GmbH" emerged on July 1, 1993 from the large foundry. Since a change of ownership, from May 1, 2001, it was called "Eisengießerei CHL Torgelow GmbH" and from 2006 the company name "Eisengießerei Torgelow GmbH". The company has been Austrian-owned since 2004; since October 2005 production has been in a new large foundry.

The number of employees rose from 64 in 2003 to 700 in 2008. Sales, which in 2003 amounted to five million euros with a loss of 1.3 million, reached around 140 million euros in 2008. The managing director Hermann Josef Taterra was awarded the “Turnarounder of the Year 2006” award by the auditing company BDO Deutsche Warentreuhand . However, there are also critical voices who see the massive use of temporary workers and low wages as the downside of the success. Also express trade union circles doubts about the sustainability of the mainly subsidy-supported upturn.

Current

According to the register portal of the commercial register, the company has had its current form since the merger of Großguss Torgelow GmbH (GGT) with Eisengießerei Torgelow GmbH in December 2007. This ended the business split carried out in 2004/2005 , during which both the holding company GGT and the operating company EGT Received funding from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The majority of the business shares are held today by Breeze Invest GmbH (Vienna) and the private foundation zur Behrehöhle (Vienna). The company has two outstanding bonds (issue volume totaling EUR 30 million, WKN A1EWMV and A1EWMW), which are no longer traded on the stock exchange. By resolution of the creditors' meeting of March 20, 2017 published in the company register on April 4, 2017, the interest rates for the bonds were increased from 4.302% and 3.5% to 6.808% per annum, the terms were changed to August 30 2023.

On October 1, 2016, the Torgelow iron foundry outsourced the blowroom with 32 employees to a subsidiary of the Basibüyük Group. Only a few employees of the cleaning shop have consented to the transfer of operations, the employment relationships of the other affected cleaners have been terminated. The Torgelow iron foundry had previously approached the number of employees of 500, the achievement of which would have made it necessary to set up a supervisory board with employee participation in accordance with the law on employee participation in the supervisory board (Third Participation Act).

Products

The Torgelow iron foundry mainly manufactures products made of nodular cast iron . This includes rotor hubs , machine carriers , axle journals , bearing housings and other gear parts for wind turbines. Other components manufactured here with a weight of up to 100 t are u. a. used in gas and steam turbines and other special systems.

literature

  • Bernhard Albrecht, Martin Albrecht, Hans-Georg Hertwig, Sigurd Kötteritzsch: The fire of the generations. 250 years of iron casting in Torgelow . Ed .: City of Torgelow. Torgelow 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Search for iron foundry Torgelow: Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2015. In: Electronic Federal Gazette . Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ "Turnarounder" award for managing director of the Torgelow iron foundry. February 20, 2007.
  3. ↑ a b Martin Behrens: Everything pours. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 5, 2007.
  4. ↑ finanzen.net
  5. ↑ finanzen.net
  6. ↑ 32 employees in Torgelow affected: iron foundry outsources cleaning shop . In: Nordkurier . 2016 ( nordkurier.de ).
  7. ↑ nordkurier.de
  8. ↑ gesetze-im-internet.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 9.4 ″  E