Waldrich Coburg
| Machine tool factory WALDRICH COBURG GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1920 |
| Seat | Coburg , Germany |
| management | Andree Behling, Falk Herkner, Uwe Herold, Qunwei Wu |
| Number of employees | approx. 550 (2019) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.waldrich-coburg.de |
The machine tool factory Waldrich Coburg ( original spelling : WALDRICH COBURG ) manufactures precision processing machines in large machine tool construction. The company's focus is on the construction and service of high-precision, large portal milling machines with which, for example, the housings of marine diesel engines or ship propellers are machined. The company, founded in 1920, is based in Coburg ( Upper Franconia ).
history
At the beginning of 1920 Adolf Waldrich (* 1888) from Siegen , a younger brother of Oskar Waldrich , founded the company under the name Globuswerke . In the beginning machines were repaired and manufactured for glass and stone processing. In 1926, the company relocated to its current location in Hahnweg in Coburg and was renamed Maschinenfabrik Adolf Waldrich . In the following years, machine tool construction, especially with planing machines, was the focus of the company. The workforce consisted of 240 employees in 1936 and grew to 400 employees by 1944.
Adolf Waldrich died on March 5, 1950. The company was renamed the machine tool factory Adolf Waldrich Coburg , the new shareholders and managing directors were Otto Waldrich , the son, and Bernhard Kapp , the son-in-law.
The production program was expanded to include combined planing, milling, grinding and long milling machines. In the 1960s, the production of large milling machines followed, with the number of employees growing to 1,000 and remaining at this level until the mid-1980s. Since then, the machine tool factory Adolf Waldrich Coburg has been one of the world's leading companies in the field of machining large workpieces. In 1977 Bernhard Kapp, who had founded his own machine tool factory, Kapp GmbH , in 1953 , left the Adolf Waldrich Coburg machine tool factory.
In 1986 Otto Waldrich, who had no successor from the family, sold the company to Ingersoll International from Rockford , USA, which also manufactured large milling machines. Ingersoll had previously acquired the HA Waldrich machine factory, founded in 1840, and renamed it Waldrich Siegen Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH.
In 2003, after Ingersoll went bankrupt, the Herkules Siegen machine works acquired the Waldrich Siegen and Waldrich Coburg companies. In Coburg there were only 500 employees. In autumn 2005 the machine tool factory Adolf Waldrich Coburg was transferred to Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool , which is part of Beijing Jingcheng Machinery and Electric Holding. In 2006 the company had a turnover of 75 million euros, with 570 employees in Coburg.
On July 2nd, 2008 the machine tool factory Adolf Waldrich Coburg GmbH & Co. KG was converted into the machine tool factory Waldrich Coburg GmbH . In 2016 the company had around 750 employees.
Due to a crisis in the market for special machine tools, the company was in the red for about three years. As a result, Waldrich Coburg had to part with around 180 employees in April 2017.
Products
The company produces high-precision large machine tools. Vertical milling machining centers in gantry and table design, horizontal milling machining centers, vertical lathes, guideway and surface grinding machines, corrugated roller grinding machines, linear guide grinding machines. These products are used in the following industries: diesel engine construction, power station components, tool and mold construction, printing and paper machine construction, wind power industry, construction machinery, rail and switch construction, machine tool construction, aerospace, the manufacture of ship propellers, iron and steel mills and contract manufacturing .
Gantry and table construction
The term gantry construction comes from crane construction ( gantry crane ). In machine tool construction, the gantry design refers to the design in which the machine portal moves above the machine table. The advantage of this construction is that the machine tool requires less space, but a larger foundation is required.
The table design, on the other hand, is the design in which the machine table moves under the fixed machine portal. The advantage here is the more compact foundation, but the machine must be given more space.
See also
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Individual evidence
- ^ Coburg: 180 jobs at the machine builder Waldrich gone . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed on April 27, 2017]).