Xella
| Xella International GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Duisburg |
| management | Jochen Fabritius (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 7,290 FTE (2019) |
| sales | 1.6 billion euros (2019) |
| Branch | Building materials, insulation materials |
| Website | xella.com |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
Xella International GmbH is a group of companies with headquarters in Duisburg-Huckingen , which produces and sells building and insulation materials .
Companies
The Xella Group develops, produces and sells building and insulation materials . With the brands Ytong, Silka and Hebel, Xella is one of the world's largest manufacturers of aerated concrete and sand-lime brick. The Multipor brand stands for non-combustible mineral insulation boards and with Ursa , Xella is one of the leading manufacturers of insulation materials in Europe. The company is present with 95 plants in more than 25 countries. In 2019, the Xella Group achieved sales of 1.6 billion euros with around 7,290 employees.
The owner of the Luxembourg holding company Xella International Holdings is the financial investor Lone Star , who acquired the majority of the Xella Group in 2017 from the two private equity companies PAI partners (France) and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (USA), which own the Xella Group in September 2008 from Haniel.
history
Xella emerged as a change of name from Haniel Bau-Industrie , which had existed since the 1940s and produced sand-lime bricks from 1948. Under the name Haniel Bau-Industrie, the company acquired the Goslarer Fels , the Hebel and the Ytong plants between 2000 and 2002 . In 2002 the first steps were taken in China and the name was changed to Xella Baustoffe . In 2003, the company presented itself under a new name at the BAU trade fair in Munich . In the same year, the investment in Norddeutsche Naturstein GmbH (NNG) in Flechtingen, which had been a subsidiary of Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft since 2005, was separated.
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Xella then closed numerous aerated concrete plants, exclusively former lever plants. Several hundred jobs were lost.
Since 2003, Xella has had its own research and development company in Brandenburg with two locations - one in Emstal near Lehnin , the other in Brück near Bad Belzig . Here technicians work in the three specialist areas of application research / building physics, process engineering and product and process research. In 2006 the company Halfen (fastening technology) based in Langenfeld was sold. In 2007 and 2008 there was further international expansion in Eastern Europe as well as in China and Russia.
In 2008 Haniel sold Xella to PAI partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners . In 2009 and 2010, Xella opened new Ytong plants in Romania and China, as well as a lime plant in Russia. In April 2011, Xella moved into the new company headquarters in Duisburg-Huckingen. On May 11, 2012, the Xella headquarters building was christened Axel-Eriksson-Haus . Axel Eriksson, Swedish architect and researcher, invented aerated concrete in 1923.
In March 2012, the takeover of the majority of shares in the Danish H + H International A / S based in Copenhagen failed . The Bundeskartellamt prohibited the takeover, as it led to the expectation that Xella would develop a dominant position on the market for aerated concrete and lightweight concrete blocks on the north German and west German regional markets.
A possible IPO was canceled in October 2015 with reference to the unfavorable market situation. In December 2016, it was announced that Xella had been sold to the investment company Lone Star for an undisclosed sum. In August 2017, Xella announced the takeover of the Spanish insulation manufacturer Ursa .
Brands
The Xella Group bundles the competencies and know-how of its product brands Ytong , Silka, Multipor, Hebel and Ursa and continuously develops them. As one of the few European companies in the building materials industry, Xella operates its own technology and research center with three departments: product and process research, application research and building physics. Xella products are sustainable both in production and in use and thus make an important contribution to the construction of energy-efficient, high-quality buildings and thus to the protection of the environment and resources. The products have already received numerous awards and certificates for their environmentally friendly properties.
Ytong logo
Silka logo
Multipor logo
Lever logo
URSA logo
Sponsorship
From 2006 to 2008 Xella was the shirt sponsor of the Bundesliga soccer club MSV Duisburg .
Student competition
With the Xella student competition held for the first time in 2004, the company takes over the 18-year tradition of the Hebel student competition and continues it under a new name.
The 11th Xella student competition 2014/2015 with the topic "Kosmopolis. Center for Migration Stuttgart" takes place in cooperation with the University of Stuttgart .
criticism
Haniel Bau-Industrie (since 2002 Xella) produced low-quality sand-lime bricks in three plants between 1987 and 1996 and sold them until the beginning of 1997. The sand-lime bricks were produced from flue gas desulphurisation systems using a lime substitute. Cracks or deformations can occur if the sand-lime bricks are exposed to permanent moisture penetration.
In a report from the Federal Association of Sand-Lime Bricks Industry eV from 1987, concerns were expressed about the durability of the bricks. According to Xella, there is no danger to the residents. Experts have confirmed that nothing will collapse.
According to Stern magazine, however, criminal prosecution of those responsible can not be ruled out. The number of 45,000 houses mentioned by the star and the amount of damage between 2.5 and 4.5 billion euros has not yet been confirmed by Xella. A quantification of the affected buildings is not possible because of the non-transparent distribution channels. It is possible that stones that were still affected were built in over residues in the storage areas or at the building materials dealer in 1996 or early 1997. The high phase was from 1991 to 1993.
So far, 382 cases have been confirmed by Xella, of which 160 houses have already been renovated by Xella. The economic damage suffered by the Haniel company has so far been 28 million euros. The Haniel Group has increased its provisions to 63 million euros for possible further damages. The majority of the houses affected are terraced or semi-detached houses. On December 8, 2011, Xella published an overview of the regions affected. Duisburg and the surrounding area are particularly affected, but also Düsseldorf, Moers and Krefeld. Overall, the damage corridor extends from the Dutch border to the Weserbergland.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts on xella.com
- ↑ Duisburg: Financial investor Lone Star takes over building materials manufacturer Xella Report of the daily newspaper Rheinische Post of April 11, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017
- ↑ industry portal raumausstattung.de the name change from 1 January 2005 .
- ^ Max Freisleder: Farewell with bitterness. In: Merkur-online.de , October 15, 2002.
- ↑ Lever-Werk hopes for Platzeck's help The company should be closed. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 7, 2002.
- ↑ Xella: Head office is now called Axel-Eriksson-Haus
- ↑ Bundeskartellamt decision B 1 - 30/11 of March 12, 2012, accessed on August 30, 2012. ( Memento of September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Xella also goes public in October In: Handelsblatt , September 22, 2015
- ↑ Xella cancels IPO ( Memento from October 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: ARD , October 5, 2015.
- ^ PAI Partners and Goldman to sell Xella to Lone Star for undisclosed sum . In: Reuters . December 1, 2016 ( reuters.com [accessed December 1, 2016]).
- ↑ Xella takes over Ursa . August 7, 2017 ( baustoffmarkt-online.de [accessed on August 8, 2017]).
- ↑ The period of action is suspended . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 7, 2011.
- ^ Building scandal: Haniel subsidiary risked damage , in Stern , July 9, 2008.
- ↑ The period of action is suspended . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 7, 2011.
- ↑ Christian Schwerdtfeger: Stone damage threatens hundreds of houses. In: Rheinische Post of December 9, 2011, p. A3.
- ↑ Bröselstein cases burden Haniel's balance sheet . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, May 1, 2012.
- ↑ Bröselstein claims should not expire . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 7, 2011.