WUMAG Niederrhein
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 44.6 " N , 6 ° 39 ′ 20.8" E
| Waggon- und Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft mbH (WUMAG Niederrhein)
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | June 1, 1948 |
| resolution | March 19, 1996 |
| Reason for dissolution | Splitting up |
| Seat | Krefeld , Germany |
| management | Jürgen Schroeder |
| Number of employees | > 200 |
| sales | > 37 million DM |
| Branch | Vehicle and mechanical engineering |
| Status: 1987 | |
WUMAG Niederrhein GmbH was a German manufacturer of aerial work platforms , railway vehicles , vehicle bodies and heavy machinery. The company continues to exist today as a holding company as WUMAG GmbH .
history
On January 6, 1921, Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG Görlitz (WUMAG) was created from the merger of Görlitzer Maschinenbau-Anstalt and Eisengießerei , AG for the manufacture of railway material and Cottbuser Maschinenbau-Anstalt und Eisengießerei AG . In addition to railway vehicles, u. a. Also turbines , boilers and submarine - diesel engines produced. As early as 1923, the company employed 5,100 workers and employees. After the Second World War, the company was continued in the GDR - as VEB (WUMAG) Görlitzer Maschinenbau and VEB Waggonbau Görlitz .
The general director of WUMAG, Conrad Geerling (1882–1946), founded a new WUMAG in Hamburg after the war , initially as a repair shop for old WUMAG marine diesel engines. The focus of the company was later on mechanical engineering. In 1946 he met the general director of DUEWAG , Ernst Schroeder (1877–1954). It was agreed that his second oldest son, Günther Schroeder, should be brought into the company. After three months of training at WUMAG Hamburg, he took over the representation of the company in North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Lower Rhine .
The provisional production permit for WUMAG Niederrhein, in Krefeld , was granted on June 1, 1948 by the Minister of Economic Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia - for the sale, assembly and maintenance of machines and spare parts for Waggon- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Görlitz WUMAG , with a maximum of 22 employees and a weekly electricity consumption of 500 kWh . The actual founding took place on June 17, 1948 at a shareholders' meeting of WUMAG Hamburg by chief engineer Georg Hemsig, lawyer Hellmut Friederichs and Oscar Toepffer as WUMAG Niederrhein, Waggon- und Maschinen-Reparaturbetriebe GmbH , the entry in the commercial register of the Krefeld district court then took place on 19. September 1948. The purpose of the company was to run a workshop for the construction and repair of vehicles, machines and other devices . The share capital was 25,000 Reichsmarks - raised by WUMAG Hamburg (7,500 RM), its managing directors Ottokar Dietrich (2,500 RM), Georg Hemsig (7,500 RM) and Günther Schroeder (7,500 RM). Günther Schroeder (* 1910), formerly a designer at the Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik (DUEWAG) and operations manager of the Waggonfabrik Uerdingen (DUEWAG subsidiary) and Georg Hemsig (* 1913), who was previously a production engineer at DUEWAG, became the managing directors of the new company . Since no suitable halls were initially available, work began in the open air.
With the currency reform , the share capital was converted to 14,000 DM . After Georg Hemsig left the company, Manfred Schroeder (* 1919), who was appointed to the management as an authorized representative in 1949 , became an authorized signatory at WUMAG and Werner Ulrich (* 1913), formerly the production manager of a development and sales company in Leipzig as the new operations manager in the company. Schroeder resigned as authorized signatory in 1954, but remained a partner. The rooms of the rented building had been badly damaged during the war, which meant that considerable costs had to be spent on repairing the rooms in the first few years, which put a considerable strain on the company's finances. In addition, there was the complete default of payment at Jockers-Bau in 1949 and the cancellation of extensive orders from a Krefeld planning and construction office (which, however, affected several local companies) caused the first economic problems, caused by short-time working and a reduction in the workforce of 47 to under 42 employees were overcome, so that on April 1, 1951 there were again 53 employees.
The cost-intensive custom-made products in Krefeld meant that WUMAG Niederrhein ran into economic difficulties again in 1953. At the same time, the bankruptcy of the Hamburg parent company meant that the Krefeld company had to become independent. For this purpose, the share capital was increased to 100,000 DM. Hellmut Friederichs and Ernst Schroeder, who were already known from WUMAG in Hamburg, and his wife Hedwig Schroeder (née Düsselberg) joined the company as new shareholders. The Krefeld daughter managed to stand on her own two feet. In 1958 the steel works canceled the lease, so that the company was forced to move completely. After the landlord extended the eviction period and successful financing negotiations, a conveniently located 14,000 m² site at Düsseldorfer Straße 100 was purchased, which is still the company's location today. Construction began in August 1958. At around the same time, Manfred Schroeder returned to the company as managing director. The share capital was increased by 100,000 and in 1959 by a further 50,000 DM. The move to the new halls began in 1959. The cooperation with the newly founded, formerly renowned company that had problems adapting to the West German post-war market, from which Werner Ulrich came, was ended in the same year. Ulrich stayed with WUMAG Niederrhein and became an authorized signatory there in 1967. In 1960, a neighboring property was bought and the company premises were significantly enlarged. In 1961 a new hall was built and in 1962 a building with dining, changing rooms and washrooms for the workforce was completed and an additional 250,000 DM was added through atypical silent contributions . The next expansion by lengthening the assembly halls took place from 1963 to 1965. That year, a new partner, the management consultant AM Weghmann, joined the company. By 1972 the silent participations increased to a total of 750,000 DM. These included the typical silent participations of three senior employees who joined in 1971 as shareholders. There was no administration building until 1973. For this and for new halls, the purchase of a neighboring property was considered. The building is now on the now extensive company premises.
On March 29, 1996, the company was split up, in which the operative business fields were spun off into the independent subsidiaries WUMAG elevant (vehicle construction) and WUMAG texroll (machine and cylinder construction). This was accompanied by the last expansion of the company premises and its division according to the requirements of the two companies. WUMAG Niederrhein was renamed WUMAG GmbH and continues to exist as the owner of the entire factory premises, the subsidiary WUMAG texroll and the WUMAG brand.
vehicle construction
The vehicle began with the founding of Krefeld branch of WUMAG Hamburg. First of all, the extensive production facilities at the main Görlitz plant were serviced and repaired. The production of completely new vehicles began in the 1950s. Previously, repairs and maintenance work were primarily carried out. Customers were primarily port railways , colliery and other works railways . The railroad vehicles built were primarily self-propelled wagons . The first in-house developed was presented in 1954 - a slag charging trolley with a diesel-electric drive . As early as 1952, a cable support carriage for shaft systems was manufactured according to a design and on behalf of Demag . Previously, new freight wagons were built on old, still functional, chassis . Covered freight wagons that were partly destroyed were converted into open freight wagons. The later program was quite extensive, but was limited to non-public railways. Charging wagons, chill casting vehicles, roller ferries and all kinds of self-propelled wagons were built. WUMAG has been granted a patent for two-sided tipping boxes with an automatic hinged lock. Repair and reconstruction of old wagons was finished in 1959.
Chargers, parcel containers and box pallets for post and rail were also produced. The prices paid for it were too low, so that production was soon stopped. Cargo trailers for road transport were also manufactured for only a few years. These included single-axle cable reel transports as well as heavy-duty trailers with twin tires with insulating hoods. The production and especially the sales turned out to be not particularly successful. A by-product of wagon construction was the construction of lightweight steel wheelhouses for smelters and rolling mills . The wheelhouses as far as Rourkela and Belo Horizonte were sold . Prefabricated in Krefeld, they were assembled on site, including the necessary interior fittings. For capacity reasons, production was stopped around 1970. By the end of the 1970s, the program was increasingly tightened - from the 1990s at the latest, there is no longer any knowledge of rail vehicle construction.
WUMAG important
The production of low-floor lift trucks began in 1954 and ended around 1970 - in order to be able to expand production capacities for the production of aerial work platforms that began in 1961 through cooperation with the English company Simon Engineering Dudley Ltd. From 1963 the devices up to 12 meters in height were developed in-house, for the larger devices the booms came from Simon, the subframes and vehicle conversions from WUMAG. When license production ended in 1973, own designs were developed. The new brand name elevant was found for the aerial work platforms through an internal tender, which was registered with the German Patent Office on July 26, 1975 as the trademark ELEVANT.
With the WT 260, a completely new generation of lifting platforms was presented in 1993 - mounted on a 7.5 t chassis, made of fine-grain structural steel with CAD optimization, movable cage arm, memory-programmed control (PLC) and load torque limiter . On March 29, 1996, the company was split up and vehicle manufacturing was spun off into Wumag elevant GmbH & Co. KG. WUMAG elevant was sold to Palfinger in 2008 and integrated into the group subsidiary Palfinger Platforms .
Mechanical engineering until 1996
The company started production with around 30 employees. For this purpose, the administration building of the former Becker steelworks at the Rheinhafen Krefeld was rented. Unlike in Hamburg, in addition to the sale, assembly and maintenance of Hamburg products, the wagon building tradition of WUMAG was to be revived. So one began to repair and recondition the vehicles of the Görlitz prewar production. The machine tools required were initially borrowed from friendly companies. In addition, the repair and manufacture of other machines as well as steel and iron structures soon followed.
In addition to vehicle construction, the expected decline in the assembly and repair business after the currency reform was offset by a very diverse range of repairs and assemblies of very different machines and operating equipment. This earned the company the nickname “art and vegetable fitter”. In addition, the Krefeld subsidiary was also a supplier to the Hamburg parent company. The mufflers for the heavy diesel engines of WUMAG Hamburg were manufactured by WUMAG Niederrhein.
In 1955, cylinder production emerged from container construction and sheet steel processing, which developed into an important pillar of the company in the 1960s and 1970s. The cylinders used in calenders were originally made almost exclusively from copper, which became significantly scarcer with the outbreak of the Korean War . Thanks to close contacts with neighboring stainless steel manufacturers and repair orders from the textile and textile machinery industry, which is increasingly settling in Krefeld, as well as experience with welding technology and non-cutting deformation, the production of high-quality stainless steel cylinders at acceptable prices was possible. The manufacturing methods for this have been significantly improved over the years thanks to special machines developed and built in-house. During this time, the production of complete machines for the textile, plastic and paper industry according to our own and customer designs also began. A first test station was built in 1973. In the course of this, the cylinder production moved to a new hall. The old one was used as a test bench and dispatch center.
In the 1980s, machine and apparatus construction in particular developed rapidly. The total turnover of WUMAG Niederrhein rose during this time from almost 14 million DM to over 37 million, with over 200 employees.
WUMAG texroll from 1996
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | March 19, 1996 |
| Seat | Krefeld |
| Number of employees | 93 |
| sales | 12-13 million euros |
| Branch | Textile engineering |
| Website | www.wumag.de |
| Status: 2015 | |
The machine and plant construction, continued after the division as WUMAG texroll GmbH & Co. KG , is today the market leader in steam-heated drying cylinders - around 60,000 such cylinders are in use worldwide. WUMAG texroll is now the only supplier of drying cylinders in Europe. The company belongs to the teXellence network .
A large part of the production is sold to Asia. B. WUMAG cylinders are used in almost every Thai textile factory. The Swiss company Benninger is also one of the customers . In addition, thick-walled rollers are increasingly being manufactured. In 1997, WUMAG supplied heavy rolls to manufacturers of paper machines in Austria and Japan. After 1998, chill rolls , the heart of film casting and stretching systems, were added. In addition to component construction, high-precision special machines such as B. Duplicating calenders, with which offset printing blankets are produced, is expanding.
By doing without the usual stabilizing support corset, a uniform heat profile is created in the cylinders, which is particularly noticeable with thin fabrics or wafer-thin fleece, as otherwise some of the 1,000 threads that are fed onto the rollers run uncleanly and after drying Treatment with chemicals stick together. The company survived the market shakeout after the boom years of 2005 and 2006 with losses and through increased flexibility and capacity adjustments. “You can't go along with every overheating of the markets - the capacity has to be right in the medium term,” said the managing director Karl-Heinz Vaaßen, former application engineer at PKL , who came to WUMAG as sales manager.
In 2011, the efficiency of the cylinder dryer was increased significantly. By retrofitting older systems, the energy requirement could be reduced significantly. The product range this year included guide rolls and guide roll tubes, drying cylinders, cooling cylinders, double-shell rolls, cylinder dryers for textile fabrics, cylinder dryers for nonwovens and technical fabrics, calenders and calibration systems, gelling and conditioning systems as well as thermosetting and stretching systems.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 1978 - 1988: Expansion through concentration ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ralph Schermann: Görlitz mechanical engineering was also an armaments factory . In: Saxon newspaper . February 22, 2006.
- ↑ Retrospect 1849–1948 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Schwabe: Study on the necessary conditions for an effective use of screen units in the management of production at VEB Bergmann Borsig, Görlitzer Maschinenbau, Görlitz plant . Technical University, Faculty of Socialist Business Administration, Diss. A, Dresden 1975, p. 157 .
- ^ Wolfgang Theurich: 160 years of wagon building in Görlitz . 2009, p. 155 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Waggon- und Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft mbH (Hrsg.): 25 years of WUMAG Niederrhein . Düsseldorf-Buchdruck, Krefeld September 1973, p. 44 , col. 1 .
- ↑ a b Market leader worldwide with thin-walled cylinders ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e 1948 - 1958: The difficult beginning ( memento of the original from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d 1958 - 1968: In our own halls ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Works - WUMAG TEXROLL GmbH & Co. KG, Krefeld ( Memento of the original dated September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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 c 1988 - 1998: In reunified Germany ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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 c d e creation | 22 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.4 MB)
- ↑ “Please click on an Elevanten” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB)
- ↑ PALFINGER takes over leading German manufacturer of aerial work platforms
- ↑ "PALFINGER PLATFORMS": New roof for PALFINGER aerial work platforms ( Memento of the original dated August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ 1968 - 1978: WUMAG products prevail ( memento of the original from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Wolfhard Petzold: Made in KR: Wumag Texroll - Knowledge advantage as a guarantee for success . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . September 21, 2010 ( online [accessed April 18, 2011]).
- ↑ 1998 - today ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Vaaßen in Germany ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ teXellence presents itself at the ITMA textile machine trade fair in Barcelona (PDF; 156 kB) http://www.texellence.de
- ↑ Products: Rollers and Cylinders, Machines ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
