VEM group
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 1, 1997 |
| Seat | Dresden |
| management | Falk Lehmann, Dietmar Puschkeit, Torsten Kuntze |
| Number of employees | around 1,700 (2012) |
| sales | 280.7 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | Electrical engineering , foundry |
| Website | http://www.vem-group.com/ |
The VEM Group is an association of electrical machine manufacturers, consisting of the plants VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH, Dresden; VEM motors GmbH, Wernigerode; VEM motors Thurm GmbH, Zwickau and VEM transresch GmbH, Dresden. The cast product manufacturer Keulahütte in Krauschwitz still belonged to the former VEM Holding until 2017 .
history
VEM Holding was founded in 1997 by the Blaubeuren family of entrepreneurs, Adolf Merckle, after purchasing the five plants from the Horst Plaschna GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs-, Sanierungs- und Vertriebs KG. In 2017, there was a change of ownership to a Chinese family investor, which is SEC Electric Machinery .
Works
VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH, Dresden
The Sachsenwerk is a manufacturer of medium and high voltage motors and drive solutions. In addition to large machines for the industrial sector, ship and traction motors as well as wind power generators make up a significant part of production. It employs around 600 people.
VEM motors GmbH
| VEM motors GmbH | |
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
| Seat | Wernigerode |
| management | Falk Lehmann |
| Number of employees | 460 (2017) |
| sales | around 65 million euros (2017) |
VEM motors GmbH, based in Wernigerode, develops and produces three-phase low-voltage motors in the power range from 5.5 kW to 1200 kW. One focus is on energy-saving motors in efficiency classes IE2 and IE3. The products are developed and manufactured as special and special motors. The company employs around 500 people.
history
The company Elektromotorenwerk Wernigerode started manufacturing electric motors after it was founded in January 1947. The plant was built on the site of the Rautal-Werke, which had supplied cast aluminum parts for the aircraft industry from 1938 and was dismantled after 1945.
In the 1970s, the production capacities were greatly expanded. In 1989, 3,260 employees produced 350,000 engines a year on a total area of 58,000 square meters. In 1997 the company was privatized by the Blaubeurer family of entrepreneurs Adolf Merckle. The company is one of the producers of low-voltage motors in Germany and Europe. The export share is around 40%. The engines are sold directly or indirectly in 86 countries around the world. To this end, VEM motors Wernigerode maintains a sales network, including sales companies in Austria, Great Britain, Finland, Singapore and Sweden.
Products
Three-phase low-voltage motors in the power range 5.5 kW to 355 kW, energy-saving motors in the efficiency classes IE2 and IE3, transnorm motors up to 1000 kW, roller table motors from 1.8 kW to 500 kW, explosion-proof three-phase motors in all types of protection in the power range from 0.12 kW to 630 kW. One focus is on the development and manufacture of energy-efficient motors in classes IE2 and IE3.
VEM motors Thurm, Zwickau
| VEM motors Thurm GmbH | |
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
| Seat | Zwickau |
| management | Michael Gruner, Falk Lehmann |
| Number of employees | 313 (2012) |
| sales | around 41 million euros (2012) |
VEM motors Thurm GmbH, based in Zwickau, produces low-voltage machines in the power range 0.06 kW to 7.5 kW. The products are developed and manufactured as special drives and standard motors. The company employs around 300 people.
history
The brothers Kurt and Alfred Stephan founded an electrical workshop in Thurm near Zwickau in March 1908. In 1908 the "K. & A. Stephan GmbH Thurm ". In the 1930s, DC, AC and three-phase motors, including for pumps and looms, as well as blowers, machine tools, gear motors, special motors for industry, craft and household, were manufactured. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet military administration expropriated and dismantled the plant. From 1947 engines were again manufactured in Thurm. Since the original location increasingly turned out to be too small, production was expanded to include a geared motor plant in Schneeberg in 1967 with the current location on the outskirts of Zwickau. In 1997 the company was privatized by the Blaubeurer family of entrepreneurs Adolf Merckle. Development tasks as well as investments in production facilities and equipment are coordinated with VEM motors Wernigerode. The products of both plants are sold jointly.
Products
VEM motors Thurm, Zwickau supplies drive solutions for all industrial sectors, especially three-phase asynchronous motors in the power range 0.06 to 7.5 kW. The products are primarily developed and produced as special drives, but also as standard motors.
VEM transresch GmbH
VEM transresch GmbH, based in Dresden, produces power converters and electrical drive systems for industrial applications. The company was taken over by VEM in 2011. Originally based in Berlin, the company moved to Dresden in 2016 in order to better utilize synergies with Sachsenwerk.
| VEM transresch GmbH | |
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Dresden |
| management | Torsten Kuntze |
| Number of employees | 20 (2016) |
| sales | over 7.7 million euros (2012) |
history
The company emerged from a company founded in 1945 as a rectifier office in Berlin-Schöneweide. In 1948 the office was incorporated into the EAW Treptow, which later became the Kombinat Elektroprojekt und Anlagenbau (EAB). In 1990, VEM EAB became fiduciary property as Elpro AG and was privatized as Elpro AG in 1992. In 1997 the business area of power converters and drives was taken over by Lloyd Dynamowerke Bremen (LDB). In 1999, the independent company transresch Antriebssysteme Berlin GmbH (MBO) was founded from the division. She has been part of the VEM group of companies since 2011.
VEM transresch produces controlled drive systems for electric drives, since 1984 as three-phase drives for standard asynchronous motors for pumps, centrifuges, textile machines and rolling mills. In 1964 the trademark "transresch" was registered. It stands for transistorized control circuits.
Products
VEM transresch GmbH supplies electrical drive systems for direct and three-phase systems and develops automation solutions for industry. The thyristor converters, frequency converters, subsynchronous converter cascades and excitation devices for motors in low and medium voltage in the power range from 10 kW to 25 MW are used worldwide.
Keulahütte GmbH
Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz, which was part of the group of companies until 2017, is a foundry with over 500 years of history. The company has specialized in pressure pipe fittings, fittings, hydrants as well as customer and architectural cast products. After the VEM Holding was taken over by the Merckle Group in 1997 , its founder Adolf Merckle received honorary citizenship of the Krauschwitz community in 2006 in recognition of his achievements in maintaining the Keulahütte and the jobs associated with it .
At the beginning of 2018, Keulahütte GmbH was sold to KHK Casting AG, based in Zug (Switzerland). The Krauschwitz company is to be operationally integrated into the "von Roll hydro Group" and to develop further in the areas of infrastructure casting for water and gas supplies as well as industrial casting.
literature
- VEM Group (Ed.): People, Motors and Metal. A tour through 125 years of industrial history . Amalia Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808680-4-4 .
- Trademark Association VEM e. V. (Ed.): A brand from the world. 1961 to 2011: 50 years of the trademark association VEM e. V. 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change of ownership at VEM Chinese family investor buys VEM and wants to keep the brand and all locations Company website. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
- ↑ IMAP review of a successful 2017 company website. Retrieved February 15, 2018.