United Boiler Works
| United Boiler Works
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1927 |
| resolution | 1991 (end of operational business) |
| Seat | Dusseldorf ( Oberbilk ) |
| Branch | Energy Technology |
The United Kesselwerke (VKW) were a German company for the manufacture of steam boilers , furnaces and other energy-technical systems with headquarters in Düsseldorf and in the legal form of a stock corporation . The company, which was created through a merger in 1927, ceased operations in the early 1990s due to economic difficulties.
history
Predecessor, union and consolidation
The United Kesselwerke was created in 1927 through the merger of the leading predecessor company Jacques Piedboeuf in Düsseldorf with the Petry-Dereux boiler works in Düren and the Orange Union in Gelsenkirchen .
Jacques Piedboeuf, Düsseldorf
The later VKW main plant in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk was built from 1857 by the Walloon entrepreneur family Piedbœuf . Starting from the headquarters in Belgium, a boiler smithy founded in 1812 in Jupille-sur-Meuse near Liège , the company founder Jacques Pascal Piedbœuf (1782–1839) successfully ventured into Germany in 1833, where he opened a boiler factory and a rolling mill in and near Aachen founded. He handed the management over to his eldest son Jacques. His youngest brother Jean Pascal later took over the further expansion towards the Ruhr area and founded further iron processing plants in Neuss and Düsseldorf, including the boiler factory in Oberbilk and the sheet iron mill Piedboeuf, Dawans & Co. in Eller.
The former factory premises are in Düsseldorf- Oberbilk on Werdener Strasse ( 51 ° 12 ′ 58.3 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 19.3 ″ E ).
In the years that followed, the boiler factory profited greatly from intensive cooperation with neighboring, vertically upstream plants, in particular the Düsseldorfer Röhren- und Eisenwalzwerke AG , and developed into one of the leading boiler manufacturers in Germany at the end of the 19th century.
Petry-Dereux, Düren
The steam boiler factory Petry-Dereux GmbH in Düren- Rölsdorf was founded in 1854 by the Belgian entrepreneur Toussaint Pétry. Later his heir Léon Pétry took over the management.
At the end of the 19th century, Petry-Dereux was a leading manufacturer of steam boilers and holder of numerous patents .
In 1927 Petry-Dereux merged into the VKW after economic difficulties. In 1933, while concentrating on the Düsseldorf location, production at the Düren location was shut down, and the factory was sold in 1939.
Orange, Gelsenkirchen
The Orange branch was established in 1873 as the Schalke Association for Boiler Manufacture in the vicinity of the Schalke Mine and Smelter Association in Gelsenkirchen- Bulmke . The company was founded by the entrepreneur Friedrich Grillo together with the Essen investors Carl Funke , Waldthausen and Hagedorn. Grillo already owned the Schalker Eisenhütte rolling mill near the Schalke Club , whose products he wanted to process in the boiler plant.
In 1878 the stocks of the iron ore mines "Orange" (formerly owned by the Dukes of Orange - Nassau , also Princes of Orange ) and "Georgine" in the Lahn-Dill area were incorporated ; the joint company now operated as a mining union under the name Orange .
After the First World War, the company suffered greatly from the general economic crisis in the wake of high inflation and was therefore affiliated to DEMAG in Duisburg in 1922 . In 1925 the plant in Bulmke, which was badly affected by subsidence , was cleared and new premises at the port of Gelsenkirchen on the Rhine-Herne Canal were moved into.
In 1927 the merger to form the United Kesselwerke took place . Production at the Orange plant was continued by VKW, but was temporarily suspended from 1932 as part of the concentration. In 1938, the plant was transferred to Dortmund Union Brückenbau AG (a subsidiary of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG ), which continued it as a plant for bridge construction and other steel construction . Later this became the Rheinstahl-Union Brückenbau AG, and later the Rheinstahl-Union Maschinen- und Stahlbau AG .
Growth and flowering
After the shutdown and the subsequent sale of the operations in Düren and Gelsenkirchen in the 1930s, business activity was concentrated entirely on the largest location - the former Piedboeuf factory - in Düsseldorf.
After the Second World War, VKW developed into one of the leading boiler manufacturers in Germany and, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, supplied numerous steam generators and other equipment for power plants and industrial plants at home and abroad.
Between 1963 and 1974, VKW was gradually transferred to the Deutsche Babcock Group under the management of Theodor Piedboeuf and classified there under the new parent Babcock-BSH .
From the mid-1960s, VKW took on a leading role in the development of waste incineration plants, starting with the system in the Flingern thermal power station .
In the mid to late 1960s, VKW was briefly involved in the development of heat exchangers for nuclear high-temperature reactors ( AVR ) in collaboration with the BBC , Krupp Reaktorbau and the Jülich nuclear research center .
From the beginning of the 1980s, VKW played a leading role in the development of stationary fluidized bed firing systems for difficult fuels.
Decline and closure
After numerous new power plants were built in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the order volume fell sharply in the 1980s, which could only be partially offset by international business. As a result, the entire German power plant construction industry fell into a crisis. A concentration process ensued, in the course of which many companies, including the Babcock Group, reduced excess capacities. The Babcock subsidiary VKW also fell victim to this development: In 1989/90 Babcock concentrated boiler production in Oberhausen; the plant in Oberbilk was completely closed.
After the closure in 1991, all factory facilities were blown up or demolished, and the site was converted back to wasteland by the mid-1990s.
After the bankruptcy of the former VKW parent company Babcock Borsig in 2002, the construction and real estate company NRW took over the property in 2004. As part of an architectural competition , a concept for converting the site was developed. The first new development was the regional and district court building by 2009 . The site is to be expanded to become the “Justice Center Werdener Straße”.
literature
- Emil Block, Karl Niederauer: 25 years of Vereinigte Kesselwerke, Düsseldorf . Ed .: United Kesselwerke AG. Book trade house, Düsseldorf 1952.
- United Kesselwerke AG (Ed.): 150 years of steam boiler construction. United Kesselwerke AG 1812–1962 . Düsseldorf 1962.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the United Kesselwerke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Vereinigte Kesselwerke Aktiengesellschaft. Power and steam engine manufacturers. Albert Gieseler, 2009, accessed November 22, 2011 .
- ^ Conditions in Aachen. with photo of the steam boiler production at Jacques Piedboeuf in Aachen. (No longer available online.) HisTech e. V. - Association for regional technology history, archived from the original on January 28, 2015 ; Retrieved November 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Development areas on both sides of the main train station / Oberbilk. City planning office of the state capital Düsseldorf , accessed on November 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Petry-Dereux (Ed.): Petry-Dereux GmbH Düren. Steam boiler systems . 2nd, expanded edition of the memorandum on the occasion of the 70th anniversary in 1925. Düren 1925.
- ^ Association of German Engineers (ed.): VDI magazine . tape 69 . VDI-Verlag, 1925, p. 1031 .
- ^ Petry-Dereux GmbH, steam boiler factory. Power and steam engine manufacturers. Albert Gieseler, 2009, accessed November 23, 2011 .
- ^ A b Orange Gelsenkirchen plant of Rheinstahl Union Brückenbau AG . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 6 . Gelsenkirchen ( excerpt from gelsenkirchener-geschichten.de ).
- ↑ a b Bulmke, Burgers and the Schalke Club. Living in Tossehof, Tossehof urban redevelopment project, City of Gelsenkirchen, accessed on November 23, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Union Orange, vorm. Schalke Association for Boiler Manufacture. Power and steam engine manufacturers. Albert Gieseler, 2009, accessed November 23, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Hans Seeling: Piedboeuf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 422 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Martin GmbH (Ed.): Waste incineration plants through the ages . Lecture at the conference “WIP residues in Switzerland” on June 24, 2010 in Bern. Munich June 28, 2010.
- ^ Markus Esch et al .: State of the Art of Helium Heat Exchanger Development for Future HTR-Projects . In: Proceedings of the 4th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology . Washington 2008.
- ↑ 1981 - 2 × 160 t / h steam boiler with fluidized bed combustion for the Toledo power plant on Cebu / Philippines. History - Early Years - Milestones. alera, archived from the original on July 19, 2012 ; Retrieved November 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the group . In: The world . July 5, 2002 ( welt.de ).
- ↑ Günther Glebe: Local Transformation Processes in the Global City. Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. Structural change in a city district close to the city . In: Helmut Schneider (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Geographische Schriften . Issue 37. Geographical Institute of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1998 ( summary on uni-duesseldorf.de ).
- ^ The nucleus of industrialization. In: Rheinische Post from July 24, 2007
