Ziehl-Abegg

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Ziehl-Abegg SE

logo
legal form European public company
founding 1910
Seat Künzelsau
management
  • Peter Fenkl, CEO
  • Olaf Kanig
  • Klaus White
  • Uwe Ziehl, chairman of the supervisory board
Number of employees 4300
sales EUR 633 million
Branch Mechanical engineering, supply industry
Website ziehl-abegg.com
Status: 2020

The Ziehl-Abegg SE (own spelling Ziehl-Abegg SE, and 2013 Ziehl-Abegg AG ) is a German manufacturer of ventilators for air and climate technology , as well as drive motors for elevators. The company's headquarters are in Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district .

Belong to the group

  • SE Ziehl-Abegg, Künzelsau (headquarters)
  • Ziehl-Abegg Automotive GmbH & Co. KG, Künzelsau

and all international subsidiaries of the SE.

history

First design drawing of an external rotor motor

In 1897 Emil Ziehl designed and built the first external rotor motor . With this product and numerous other new electrotechnical devices (e.g. a gimbal-mounted gyro compass ), all of which he had patented and were able to sell, Ziehl had accumulated sufficient capital. He founded the Ziehl-Abegg Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft mbH on January 2 or June 1910 together with the Swiss engineer Eduard Abegg. The company headquarters was moved to the Roland works in Weißensee , An der Industriebahn 12-18, which Ziehl had bought . The rural community of Weißensee became part of the Berlin district of Weißensee in 1920 . Ziehl had high hopes for Abegg, who was to develop wind power plants for the company.

Old company logo
Menzel relief at the former Ziehl-Abegg location in Berlin-Weißensee

After the company logo (a Blitz-Z on a berg-A) had already been put into circulation, it turned out that Abegg could not raise the promised financial means and that the wind motor patent that was brought in was also unsuitable. Abegg therefore left the company again in the same year.

Emil Ziehl initially designed a girl with a cat to decorate the clinker brick facade of the production building. However, he replaced this advertising image with a representation of a large electric motor in front of which a dwarf figure stands. This bears clear characteristics of Adolph Menzel , which is why a local history association identified it. It is a plastic and painted representation in a window above the building entrance.

After Emil Ziehl died in 1939, the sons took over the factory. Towards the end of the Second World War , the industrial facilities in Weißensee were bombed, but the construction drawings for the products were saved and smuggled into West Germany by the sons .

The factories that remained intact were dismantled after the German surrender in 1945 on the orders of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and brought to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment. In West Germany, the company was rebuilt from 1949 in the Künzelsauer Schlossmühle by the brothers Günther and Heinz Ziehl. The Ziehls had given up the property in Berlin; In the GDR era, a new engine factory was established here.

Former production hall in Berlin-Weißensee, 2016

In 1960, the production of an external rotor motor as a fan drive began in Künzelsau. 1973 marked the beginning of internationalization and in 2001 it was converted into a family-owned stock corporation.

Sales branches exist in Poland, China, Russia, USA, Czech Republic, Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, France, Italy, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine, Spain, Benelux, South Africa, Japan, Turkey, India and Brazil.

The founders of several competitors (Gebhardt, ebm-papst , Rosenberg Ventilatoren ) were employed by Ziehl-Abegg before founding their own company. Wilhelm Gebhardt was previously employed in development at Ziehl-Abegg, and Karl Rosenberg was employed in sales at Ziehl-Abegg before founding his own company in 1981.

Products

In ventilation technology, axial and centrifugal fans with a diameter of 190 to 1400 mm as well as motors and control technology adapted to them are manufactured. Examples of the areas of application are u. a. the heating, cooling and clean room technology.

At the end of the 1980s, Ziehl-Abegg was the first company in the world to introduce EC motors (see also brushless DC motor ) into ventilation technology. In the 90s, the rotor blades were sickled and given a bionic profile in 2006 to minimize noise. Ziehl-Abegg (2013) was the first company in the world to develop a bio-fan made of a bio-polymer (castor oil).

In the field of drive technology, electric motors are developed for elevators, medical applications such as computer tomographs and for buses.

Ziehl-Abegg Automotive

At the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2012, the subsidiary presented Ziehl-Abegg Automotive under the name ZAwheel a gearless hub drive for buses and other commercial vehicles with synchronous - external rotor motor . Regular buses equipped with ZAwheel have been in regular service since 2008, including in Apeldoorn ( "The Whisper" ) and Rotterdam ( "eBusz" ). Five public service buses equipped with ZAwheel started in Germany in April 2015 in Münster. The model ZAwheel SM530 with 125 kW has a maximum torque of 6000 Nm. The efficiency is 90 percent. Retrofitting in conventional buses with diesel engines should also be possible. In 2017, the company presented the electric wheel hub drive for the first time with twin tires in two performance levels: one with a maximum torque of 17,500 Nm and once with 9,000 Nm. So far there has only been a single power level with 12,000 Nm. The product portfolio of wheel hub drives, rims and axles was supplemented by the ZAwheel control unit.

Locations

Ziehl-Abegg SE

Ziehl-Abegg building in Künzelsau

The main plant has locations in Heinz-Ziehl-Strasse and a branch in Würzburger Strasse in Künzelsau. The company has been operating the world's largest combined measurement and test rig for fans there since 2008.

Other locations are Schöntal- Bieringen and two production areas in Kupferzell on Günther-Ziehl-Strasse in the Hohenlohe industrial park.

Ziehl-Abegg France Sarl

The production of electric motors and complete fan systems for the refrigeration and ventilation industry is located in Villieu near Lyon in France. 118 employees work there on an area of ​​10,000 m².

Ziehl-Abegg Kft

Ziehl-Abegg Motor ÉS Ventillátorgyártó Kft. In Marcali (Hungary) was founded by Ziehl-Abegg GmbH & Co. in December 1994 with a share capital of 84,570,000 forints . The Hungarian company produces ventilation systems, special electric motors, axial and radial fans and accessories for the agriculture, mechanical engineering, air conditioning and refrigeration industries. The parts are produced in three factories, the total operating area is 62,000 m².

education and study

The training quota at Ziehl-Abegg is approximately 10 percent. In 2014 the IHK Heilbronn-Franken Ziehl-Abegg, as a pilot company, awarded the “Dualis” seal for very good training. At the “Human Resource Excellence Awards” in December 2012, Ziehl-Abegg was recognized for its excellent welcoming culture for foreign specialists. Ziehl-Abegg also exports the dual training model to other countries: dual training started at the plant in Hungary in 2013, and dual training has been available there since 2016.

Movies

  • In the race with the crisis - fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg. Documentary, Germany, 2019, 29:43 min., Script and director: Andrea Lotter, production: SWR , series: made in Südwest , first broadcast: 13 May 2018 on SWR television , synopsis by ARD , online video available until 23 April 2021.
  • Always energized - the Ziehl-Abegg company in Künzelsau. Documentary film, Germany, 2018, 29:40 min., Script and director: Lothar Zimmermann, production: SWR, series: made in Südwest , first broadcast: March 7, 2018 on SWR television, synopsis by ARD , online video available up to 10 June 2020.
  • Doors open: how does an electric motor work? Kinderwissenssendung, Germany, 2016, script and direction: Peter Lemper, first broadcast: September 18, 2016, editing: Sendung mit der Maus . Moderator Malin Büttner and CEO Peter Fenkl explain how an electric motor works at the ZA Kupferzell plant . Online video in the ARD media library.

Web links

Commons : Ziehl-Abegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ziehl-Abegg Germany - Facts & Figures. In: ziehl-abegg.de. April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ziehl-Abegg Germany - Facts & Figures. In: ziehl-abegg.de. April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The premier class. In: ziehl-abegg.com , company chronicle from 2010–2014.
  4. ↑ address. In: ziehl-abegg.com .
  5. ↑ a b c Ulrich Seidler: Say who can be that little man. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 16, 2018, p. 234 (print edition).
  6. ↑ Electrotechnical magazine. Issue B., Volume 12, p. 260.
  7. ↑ Press release: Ziehl-Abegg is a “German traditional brand”. Plus X Award honors companies from Künzelsau. In: Ziehl-Abegg Germany , 2019.
  8. ↑ Advertising images and phone book entry from 1943. In: nonstopsystems.com , scroll down to chapter. DC motors .
  9. ↑ Matthias Stolla: 100 years of success in the air. In: Heilbronner Voice , June 14, 2010, on the anniversary celebration.
  10. ^ The painter and industry , accessed on July 16, 2018.
  11. ^ Christian Litz: Complicated family relationships. ( Memento of March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: brand eins  / McK Wissen , May 2002, No. 1, pp. 10-19, ISSN  1619-9138 , (PDF; 10.3 MB).
  12. ↑ 100 years of Ziehl-Abegg: Movement through perfection. ( Memento of August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: IKZ.de , August 4, 2010.
  13. ↑ 25 years of EC technology in the ventilation sector. ( Memento from May 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: TGA specialist planner , July 30, 2014.
  14. ↑ Sabine Spinnarke: Bionics: fans, as quiet as owl wings. In: produktion.de , April 29, 2015.
  15. ↑ Ziehl-Abegg. Bionic fan now also made of bio material. In: Die Kälte + Klimatechnik , October 4, 2013.
  16. ↑ Air and drive technology from Ziehl-Abegg. In motion for 100 years. In: Industrieanzeiger , July 19, 2010, issue 29.
  17. ↑ a b Rainer Grill, press release: Quiet and environmentally friendly through the city. Ziehl-Abegg presents ZAwheel at the IAA Commercial Vehicles: Electric wheel hub drive without gearbox. In: firmenpresse.de , September 17, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2018.
  18. ↑ Ralf Arnold Managing Director at Ziehl-Abegg Automotive. In: Heilbronner Voice , August 2, 2012.
  19. ↑ e-Busz. 50% more fuel efficiency. ( Memento from September 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: e-traction.com , 2016.
  20. ↑ Werner Palmert: Münster relies on green electricity. In: Mannheimer Morgen , April 25, 2015, only the beginning of the article.
  21. ↑ Erik Schäfer: ... still a tad better! ( Memento from May 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: K&E construction & development , October 19, 2012, interview with Peter Fenkl.
  22. ^ Business medal for Uwe Ziehl from Schwäbisch Hall. In: Ministry of Economic Affairs Baden-Württemberg , April 13, 2015.
  23. ↑ Dualis for quality in training. In: Südwestpresse , March 13, 2014.
  24. ↑ Jürgen Schreier: Ziehl-Abegg honored for exemplary HR work. In: maschinenmarkt.vogel.de , 13. December 2012.
  25. ↑ (DR): Ziehl-Abegg. Dual system is exported. In: Die Kälte + Klimatechnik , November 30, 2015.
  26. ↑ Thomas Zimmermann: Here comes the mouse. In: Stimmen.de , August 9, 2016.