Zarges
| ZT Management Holding GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1933 |
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Weilheim in Upper Bavaria Germany
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| Number of employees | 1299 |
| sales | EUR 222.5 million |
| Website | www.zarges.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Zarges is an aluminum processing company based in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria . The group is divided into the four business areas of climbing technology, logistics devices, aluminum systems for the wind industry and aluminum systems for aviation.
history
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In 1933 the brothers Walther and Hellmuth Zarges founded the first light metal construction company in Europe in Stuttgart . In 1938, the brothers started the serial production of ladders made of aluminum . The following year the company moved to Weilheim in Upper Bavaria for capacity reasons .
In 1951 the ZARGES folding box was introduced. For the increasing volume of goods being transported by rail, stable packaging was required, which should, however, take up as little space as possible during return transport. The folding box could be folded up to a third of its original size. Over a million such boxes were delivered to Deutsche Bahn . The dimensions of the folding boxes became the standard and are still decisive for modern logistics today . From 1955 to 1965 the plant in Weilheim was expanded and another plant was built in Peiting. In 1966 the company applied for a patent for the metal pipe ladder . In addition, the company was involved in setting up the radio link with antennas made of light metal . In the 1960s and 1970s, the Weilheim-based company also built cable car gondolas , some of which are still in use in the Alpine region today. From 1973 to 1996 the production was further expanded and modernized, further subsidiaries were founded in Denmark, England, the Czech Republic and Poland. In the following year, the French Tubesca group was bought and a subsidiary was founded in Sweden, in 1998 the managerial division of Kecskemét Aluminum AG was bought, and a joint venture with MobilCoop, Hungary, of 70% took place. In 1999 Comabi SNC, France, was bought; VAW and the Zarges family sold their shares in 2000 to NIB Capital Private Equity NV, later Taros Capital GmbH. In 2002 the French ladder manufacturer Artrub was bought. In the following year, the subsidiary Zarges BV was founded in Oisterwyk, which is responsible for the markets in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2004 a new product line was introduced under the name Z600_500 and Z300_200. In 2006 Taros Capital GmbH sold Zarges Tubesca to Granville Baird Capital Partners in Hamburg. Since 2007, Zarges Tubesca has been active in the wind and aerospace industries with its two new business areas for aluminum systems .
In 2016, the holding was dissolved and Tubesca was sold to the French family company Frénéhard & Michaux, while ZARGES GmbH continues to operate in its core business.
Business areas
The parent company of the Zarges Tubesca Group is ZT Management Holding GmbH. The group is the market leader in key business areas. The production facilities are in Weilheim and Dresden in Germany, in Kecskemét in Hungary as well as in Ailly, Trévoux and Crémieu in France and in Tarazona in Spain. In addition, the group has sales offices in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic and the USA. The group is represented in around 35 countries worldwide via a dealer network.
The company is divided into the following business areas:
- Access technology: ladders and scaffolding for industry, trade as well as house and garden.
- Logistics equipment: system solutions for packing, transporting, storing or organizing.
- Aluminum systems for the wind industry
- Aluminum systems for aviation: maintenance and assembly platforms.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette