Weidmann Holding
| Weidmann Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1877 |
| Seat | Rapperswil-Jona , Switzerland |
| management |
Franziska Tschudi Sauber ( CEO ) Alexander Hagemann ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 3,165 (end of 2017) |
| sales | 367 million CHF (2017) |
| Branch | Electrical engineering, medicine and pharmaceuticals |
| Website | www.weidmann-group.com |
The Weidmann Group (formerly Wicor) is a Swiss company for technical products and services for electrical engineering, medicine and pharmaceuticals as well as other industries. The family business has 30 locations worldwide, employed around 3,200 people in 2018 and generated sales of 367 million Swiss francs in the same year.
Field of activity
The Weidmann Group develops, produces and sells insulation material, components and systems for transformers , injection-molded components for the medical and pharmaceutical industries as well as microfibrillated cellulose for high-quality and environmentally friendly applications in a wide variety of industries through its three divisions, Weidmann Electrical Technology, Weidmann Medical Technology and Weidmann Fiber Technology .
history
The company was founded in 1877 by Heinrich Weidmann, who at that time bought the closed town mill in Rapperswil and set up his business there. In addition to pressboard in sheets and rolls, he produced pressed parts from plastics he had developed himself, primarily for the electrical industry, including switch handles, switch boxes, spark extinguishers and magnet coil boxes. After Weidmann's death in 1914, the company passed to the two managing directors, who converted it into H. Weidmann Aktiengesellschaft in 1915 .
However, as a result of the First World War, which had just broken out, the foreign markets failed, which brought the company to the brink of ruin. In 1923 it was taken over by a consortium headed by Jean Tschudi – Klaesi, himself owner of a company for special cardboard for non-electrical applications in Ennenda . In 1925, Jean Tschudi-Klaesi entrusted the necessary restructuring and repositioning of the company to his son Hans Tschudi-Faude. He succeeded in positioning H. Weidmann AG as a manufacturer of insulation and plastics technology.
In 1968 the company management passed to Felix Tschudi-Hubacher. The family-owned Tschudi & Cie. AG was integrated into H. Weidmann AG , the company internationalized and expanded into a global group.
In 1997 the business activities in the field of special cardboard for non-electrical applications of Tschudi & Cie. AG in Ennenda and the company building was converted into a new production facility for automotive and later for electrical insulation components. Franziska Tschudi Sauber has been the fourth generation CEO of the family company since 2001. New locations in Europe (Ukraine, Turkey, Croatia) and in Asia, especially China, were established.
In 2014, with the sale of the Automotive & Industrial division, Weidmann Medical Technology becomes an independent division. In 2016, with the establishment of Fiber Technology for the production of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), another / new division emerged from the group.
Web links
- Weidmann Holding AG website
- Electrosuisse - pioneers in electrical engineering: Hans Heinrich Weidmann (PDF; 32 kB)