Weishaupt (company)

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Max Weishaupt GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1932
Seat Coat of arms Schwendi.svg Schwendi , Germany
management Siegfried Weishaupt
Karl-Heinz Romer
Thomas Weishaupt
Number of employees 3,000 (2013)
sales 540 million euros (2013)
Branch Combustion
technology
Energy technology Energy management Energy
generation
Website http://www.weishaupt.de/

The Max Weishaupt GmbH is a 1932 by Max Weishaupt vested medium-sized family of combustion technology in Schwendi in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia .

Companies

Weishaupt burner for a flame tube smoke tube boiler
Weishaupt gas burners

In 2013 the company employed around 3,000 people and achieved annual sales of around 540 million euros. Almost 1,000 employees work at the headquarters in Schwendi, the rest are spread over 29 branches in Germany and 21 subsidiaries worldwide.

Weishaupt GmbH is part of the larger Weishaupt group. This is divided into the following areas:

  • Neuberger : Part of the Weishaupt Group since 1995. Focus on energy management and building automation , as well as clean room technology and process technology.
  • South building site : Part of the Weishaupt Group since 2009. Focus on energy generation using near-surface geothermal energy .

Products

The company's reputation was founded on the “Monarch burner”, which is still available today in a revised form. The following products have received multiple awards for their good design:

  • 2005: red dot design award , product design division, for Weishaupt burner series W
  • 2006: red dot design award, product design division, for WM-G10 gas burner

Weishaupt forum

Between 1989 and 1992, the “Weishaupt Forum” was built on the factory premises of the Weishaupt company, an award-winning building designed by New York architect Richard Meier . It serves as the company's central training, exhibition and social building.

literature

  • Werner Blaser : Weishaupt - Theo Hotz . Niggli , Sulgen / Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-7212-0541-3 .
  • Max Weishaupt GmbH (Ed.): Documentation over 30 years of design, graphics and architecture by Max Weishaupt GmbH. Weishaupt, Schwendi 1994.
  • Werner Blaser: Weishaupt Forum, Richard Meier: on the new Weishaupt Forum - what good architecture can be. Birkhäuser, Basel 1993.
  • Walter Baumann (text), Andreas Müller-Franz (photos): Max Weishaupt: published on the occasion of his 70th birthday; a conception. Max-Weishaupt-GmbH, Schwendi 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Weishaupt in numbers
  2. Weishaupt in numbers - Weishaupt. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  3. Jobs-Ulm: Weishaupt - Max Weishaupt GmbH - Jobs, vacancies and company information at Jobs-Kempten. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  4. Weishaupt Group. In: Weishaupt.de. Max Weishaupt GmbH, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
  5. Weishaupt takes over geothermal specialists. In: tga-fachplaner.de. March 9, 2009, accessed January 16, 2017 .