WaldrichSiegen
| Waldrich Siegen Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1840 |
| Seat | Burbach , Germany |
| management | Christoph Thoma, Marco Tannert |
| Number of employees | 350 (2015) |
| sales | EUR 92 million (2009) |
| Branch | Heavy engineering |
| Website | www.waldrichsiegen.de |
The WaldrichSiegen Machine Tools GmbH (short: WaldrichSiegen) is a manufacturer of large machine tools in the four product lines milling, turning, grinding and texturing. The internationally active company with production facilities in the USA, China and India is headquartered in Burbach , North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
In 1840 Heinrich Adolf Waldrich founded the HA Waldrich machine factory in the city of Siegen , then in the Prussian province of Westphalia . Initially, the company produced pumps, pulleys and fans for blast furnaces. In 1863 the company developed and built the first steam engine and then the first lathe. When the company founder Heinrich Adolf Waldrich died in 1879, his son of the same name took over management of the company. In the following years the company's product range was expanded. The machine factory manufactured the first roll turning machine in 1897, the production of the first roll grinding machines followed in 1920. The grandson of the company founder, Oskar Waldrich , took over the management of the company in 1919. The workforce at that time was 20. International sales markets were opened up under his leadership. The HA Waldrich machine factory delivered the first machines to Russia in 1927. In 1924, around 300 people worked in the company. In 1934 a "Plant II" was opened next to the original plant at the Sieghütte in Siegen, followed two years later by taking over an existing plant in the Leimbachtal "Plant III". Production and the number of workers reached their peak in 1943 with 1,236 workers, including numerous forced laborers, most of them from the Soviet Union ("Eastern workers"). In 1944 they made up about a third of the workforce. They were housed in several company camps. At the end of the Second World War , the company's Siegerland locations were largely destroyed by air raids. It was titled "National Socialist Model Company".
The portal milling machine product line was introduced in 1961 through a joint venture with Ingersoll Milling Machine Co., USA, which brought the milling technology from America to the European market. Waldrich Siegen-Ingersoll GmbH was founded for this purpose . To manufacture the high-performance milling machines in portal design, a new production hall was necessary due to the dimensions and weights of the machines. For this reason, a new plant with machine tools was built on the green field in Burbach. With completion in 1981 the company moved from Siegen to Burbach. WaldrichSiegen had already been taken over by Ingersoll in 1971. Waldrich Coburg was integrated into the group in 1986.
After the insolvency of Ingersoll (USA), the companies WaldrichSiegen and Waldrich Coburg were taken over by the owner family of the Herkules machine factory in 2004 . In 2005 the owners decided to sell Waldrich Coburg again.
Waldrich Siegen Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH is now an independent company within the medium-sized, owner-managed HerkulesGroup. Future WaldrichSiegen is the Since June 2011, also for HerkulesGroup company belonging to UnionChemnitz coexist on the market. In 2015 WaldrichSiegen celebrated its 175th anniversary.
developments
- Hydrostatic worm drives for turning and milling machines (1970)
- WaldrichSiegen Master Head Concept (2009)
Products
WaldrichSiegen produces machine tools that are used for roller machining and machining of heavy marine diesel engine housings, crankshafts, etc. The product range includes:
- Portal milling machines
- Turning-milling machines
- Lathes
- Horizontal lathes
- Vertical lathes
- Roll grinding machines
- Roller texturing machines
See also
literature
- Paul Fickeler: Waldrich Siegen: 1840-1955: on the history of the city of Siegen and the German machine tool industry: Festschrift EH Oskar Waldrich on his 75th birthday . Siegen 1955 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Waldrich, Siegen, large machine tools: commemorative publication for Oskar Waldrich, Dr. -Ing. honorary of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, honorary citizen of the Technical University of Aachen, on his 80th birthday on June 3, 1960 . Wins 1960.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ WaldrichSiegen: Careers accessed on August 17, 2015
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/waldrich-siegen-volle-auslast-fuer-die-naechsten-zwei-jahre;2534587 in Handelsblatt from February 23, 2010
- ^ Railways to Siegen and Siegerland. Future out of tradition! Works railways, see: [1] .
- ^ Railways to Siegen and Siegerland. Future out of tradition! Works railways, see: [2] .
- ↑ Ulrich Opfermann , HeimatFremde. "Foreign deployment" in Siegerland, 1939 to 1945: how it came about and what preceded it, Siegen 1991, p. 47.
- ↑ Regional personal dictionary on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Oskar Waldrich ; Waldrich, Siegen. Large machine tools. Festschrift for Oskar Waldrich on his 80th birthday on June 3, 1960, undated 1960.
- ↑ VdSM: Deceased: Helmut Belz ( 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.
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 8 ° 6 ′ 9.6 ″ E