VSM United Emery and Machinery Factories
| VSM - Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken AG
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| legal form | Stock company since 1898 |
| founding | 1864 |
| Seat | Hanover , Germany |
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| Number of employees | approx. 800 (2018) |
| sales | approx. 145 million EUR (2016) |
| Branch | Abrasives |
| Website | www.vsmabrasives.com |
| As of August 17, 2018 | |
The VSM · United sanding machines and factories AG is an internationally established manufacturer of flexible abrasive on a backing, based in Hannover-Hainholz . VSM develops and produces abrasives for grinding operations on metal, wood and other materials. More than 1,400 different grinding products are used. The focus is on individual customer advice and application-oriented optimization of grinding processes.
Companies
VSM AG exports to around 70 countries around the world. The VSM Group has eight subsidiaries with 100% ownership (USA, Canada, England, Hungary, Spain, France, Colombia) as well as holdings in four companies in Poland, Sweden, Turkey and Switzerland. The company also has sales offices in China, Thailand and Russia. The approx. 60 export partners are represented on all continents with a focus on Europe and Southeast Asia. The majority shareholders are Starcke GmbH & Co. KG in Melle. and August Rüggeberg GmbH & Co. KG in Marienheide.
history
Advertisement with artist signature by Änne Koken in the Illustrirten Zeitung from April 20, 1911
The company was founded in the middle of the 19th century by Siegmund Oppenheim and Siegmund Seeligmann and is one of the oldest European manufacturers of abrasives. At that time it was still producing glass paper by hand in a barn in Hanover-Hainholz. It was registered by the commercial court in 1864. Towards the end of the 19th century, the company began building a machine factory in addition to producing abrasives. Initially, grinding machines were designed to use grinding wheels, later molding and foundry machines were added. In 1898, almost 35 years later, S. Oppenheim & Co. Hainholz merged with Schlesinger & Co. Harburg and the English subsidiary of the Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken AG.
During the First World War , the subsidiary in London was expropriated . As a result of the global economic crisis at the end of the 1920s, machine manufacturing was shut down in 1930 and the factory in Harburg in 1931. The company specialized in abrasives on flexible backing with Hannover-Hainholz as the main production location.
Although a large part of the production facilities in Hanover were destroyed towards the end of the Second World War , they were able to be rebuilt with their own funds from retained earnings and the first production facility was put back into operation in October 1945.
In the following years the company expanded through the establishment of several subsidiaries, starting in 1955 with VSM Abrasives Ltd. in the UK and through joint ventures . The buildings were z. B. expanded to include laboratories, test facilities, warehouses, production lines and set up our own grinding technology training center. In the following ten years, VSM invested in new grain production and the further expansion of the company. To this end, a modern training center was opened for further training of employees and customers.
Products
VSM AG's products are divided into two series groups. The high-tech series are self-sharpening and include abrasives made of ceramic grain , compact grain and zirconium corundum . VSM is one of three manufacturers in the world that is able to produce ceramic grain itself, brand name VSM CERAMICS and VSM CERAMICS Plus. The high-quality series include abrasives made of aluminum oxide , silicon carbide and fleece .
At the end of basic production, the abrasives are made in the form of grinding tracks wound into rolls. These are made into sanding belts, sanding disks as well as rolls and sheets. These products are then used in a variety of industrial applications, e.g. B. in the surface treatment of bent, stamped and sheet metal parts, turbine blades, sanitary fittings, tools, pipes, sheet metal and containers, in general mechanical engineering, in medical technology, in the automotive industry and in industrial wood and glass processing. Unalloyed steels, stainless steels, high-alloyed, creep-resistant steels, titanium, aluminum and brass alloys, wood and wood-like materials such as MDF and HDF are processed .
Fonts (selection)
- United Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken Aktien-Gesellschaft, (formerly S. Oppenheim & Co. and Schlesinger & Co.), Hanover-Hainholz , Berlin: Eckstein's Biographischer Verlag, 1899 [3 sheets with a plate]
- Molding sand processing machines / Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken AG, Hanover-Hainholz , edition G 1, Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken Actiengesellschaft, Hannover-Hainholz, 1910 [57 pages with numerous illustrations and graphic representations]
- H. Friedrichs (employee): Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken Actiengesellschaft, formerly S. Oppenheim & Co. and Schlesinger & Co., Hanover. 1864 - 1914. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Hanover-Hainholz and Harburg a / E factories. , Berlin: Preuss, 1914
- Franz Maria Feldhaus: The history of abrasives / by Franz M. Feldhaus. With an appendix by H. Friederichs. Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken Aktien-Gesellschaft, formerly S. Oppenheim & Co. and Schlesinger & Co. , Hanover-Hainholz: Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken, 1919
- 100 years of abrasives from Hanover-Hainholz. 1864 - 1964. United emery and machine factories , Hanover: United emery and machine factories, Hanover-Hainholz [o. D., 1964]
literature
- Dieter Tasch : honed into a global company . In: Dieter Tasch, Horst-Dieter Görg (Hrsg.): It started in Hanover ... biscuits - bread rolls - calculating machines. About personalities, traditional companies and milestones in the history of technology , with contributions by Torsten Hamacher ..., in cooperation with the Technik-Forum Hannover e. V. 1st edition. Leuenhagen & Paris, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-923976-84-3 , pp. 28-35
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : United Schmirgel- u. Maschinenfabrik AG. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 641.
- Germany's large industrial workshops - the emery steam plant in Hainholz near Hanover . In: The Gazebo . Issue 9, 1882, pp. 143-146 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on VSM Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hanover District Court, HRB 3342
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , October 13, 2012, p. 11.
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '48.1 " N , 9 ° 42' 56.9" E