Wefapress Beck + Co
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1895 |
| Seat | Vreden , Germany |
| management | Lutz and Gerrit Beck |
| Number of employees | 135 |
| sales | 21 million euros |
| Branch | Plastics |
| Website | www.wefapress.com |
| As of December 31, 2014 | |
The Wefapress Beck + Co GmbH is a manufacturer of thermoplastic materials with headquarters in Vreden , North Rhine-Westphalia.
production
Wefapress produces semi-finished and finished products made from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE / PE-UHMW), high molecular weight polyethylene (PE-HMW) and other engineering plastics such as polyamide (PA), polyoxymethylene (POM), polyethylene terephthalate (PETP) and also polyetheretherketone (PEEK) ). The main material is the plastic polyethylene, which can be mixed with various additives such as oil, soot or metal parts. In 1955, Wefapress was one of the first companies to compress the raw material.
Areas of application
The company's materials are used in mechanical engineering , paper industry , conveyor technology , plant engineering , chemical industry , pharmaceutical industry , food industry and beverage industry.
history
The Dutch entrepreneurs and brothers Bernhard, Jan and Hermann Reerink founded the oak tannery Reerink and Paschen in Vreden in 1828 . From 1967 to 1983 she worked under the company RIF Reerink & Flues GmbH. Furthermore, in 1885 they founded the Riemenwerk Gebr. Reerink AG in Frankfurt-Bonames . This was taken over by today's Deutsche Carbone AG between 1925 and 1927. Finally, in 1895, the Westfalia company in Vreden, which manufactured pickers ( weaving shuttle dampers ) and spare parts for looms . The basic idea behind the founding of the company was to reuse the leather scraps and waste from the oak tannery.
In the 1950s, Wefapress Beck + Co succeeded in manufacturing the pickers from plastic instead of raw hide. Kurt Günther Beck was working under Karl Ziegler and the Italian Giulio Natta at the Ruhrchemie plant in Oberhausen on today's polyethylene. In lengthy experiments an attempt was made to get the powder into a solid form. The first test material came to Wefapress through him in 1952. There, the powdery raw material was finally pressed into panels using the press sintering process. This is a process that is still used today. Wefapress can therefore be named as the world's first supplier of these two engineering plastics. In further processing, the panels produced are made into machine components for international industry. There is a special focus on food processing, mechanical engineering, the beverage and bottling industry and mining, just to name a few.
The family company is run in the fourth generation by Lutz Beck and Gerrit Beck (as of 2010). It has offices in Waregem , Johannesburg , Port Elizabeth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the business year from 01/01/2014 to 12/31/2014
- ↑ About Wefapress | Wefapress. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ^ Archives in NRW
- ↑ history
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Das GURgestein 50 - Jahre GUR®