Wopfinger building materials industry
| Wopfinger building materials industry GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1911 |
| Seat | Wopfing , Austria |
| management | Georg Bursik (Managing Director) Manfred Tisch |
| Number of employees | approx. 400 (2006) |
| sales | approx. € 158 million (2011) |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.wopfinger.at |
The Wopfinger Building Materials Industry Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Schmid Industrie Holding and Austrian family. It is now in the third generation and is based in Wopfing, Lower Austria .
Under the brand name Baumit, it produces and sells cement , lime , dry and facade plasters and screeds with around 400 employees (until 2017 as part of a corporate group together with the Wietersdorfer Group ) . With this, it achieved a turnover of around 158 million euros in 2011.
history
The company has been producing lime in Piestingtal since 1911 and is now the largest private lime producer in Austria . Since 1960, the quarry Waldegg limestone mined. Around 1.4 million tons of the building material are extracted here every year. The company has been one of the largest plaster manufacturers in Europe since the 1970s. After a cement plant was built in 1980, a large part of the demand in Austria was also produced. The company transports some of its finished products on the Gutenstein Railway and is therefore a major customer on this railway line, to which a siding has been in existence since 1914.
In 1989 the company received the state award and has since been allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary in 2011, the senior of the Schmid family, Friedrich Schmid, was awarded the Silver Commander's Cross for Services to the State of Lower Austria .
In 2017, the building materials division of the Wietersdorfer Group , based in Carinthia, which comprises 27 companies in 14 countries and employs 650 people, was taken over. This also includes the trademark rights of the brands "Baumit" and "Kema".
Maerzofen
In the 1950s, the company developed the Maerzofen , which uses the combustion gases from the production of lime for the burning process of the limestone, thereby increasing the efficiency of the ovens by 15%, which helps save natural gas.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baumit-Journal 1-2012 ( 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.
- ↑ Announcements. (...) announcement. In: Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung (…) , No. 2/1914, January 3, 1914, p. 5, column 2 above. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Awarding of the Silver Commander's Cross to KR Friedrich Schmid on the parish website on June 25, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2011
- ↑ Sale of the Wietersdorfer building materials division completed on OTS on August 22, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017
- ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/wirtschaft/5175020/Kaernten_Wietersdorfer-verkauf-seine-BaustoffSparte
