Zwick Roell

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ZwickRoell AG

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
Seat Munich , Germany
management Jan Stefan Roell (CEO)
Number of employees 1,414
sales EUR 237.49 million
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.zwick.de
As of December 31, 2018

The Zwick Roell Group is a German mechanical engineering company specializing in the manufacture of machines for materials testing .

The group is represented in 56 countries around the world and has production sites in Ulm- Einsingen , Radeberg, Bickenbach, Fürstenfeld (AUT) and Stourbridge (UK). There are also representative offices in the USA , Singapore , France , Great Britain , Spain , Brazil , Turkey and the People's Republic of China . In 2015 the group employed 1,350 people.

history

Paul Roell founded the testing machine company Roell + Korthaus together with Alfred Korthaus in 1920. A year later, Paul Roell became the sole partner. The company survived the Second World War without any problems.

In 1952 his son Werner Paul Roell became managing director. 1982 took over the Roell in 1854 Schaffhausen company, founded by Jacob Amsler-Laffon Amsler which the world's oldest supplier of measurement and control technology was. Roell-Amsler made a name for itself with its hydraulic testing machines at the Gottmadingen site in particular in the 1980s and 1990s . In August 2003 the company in Gottmadingen was shut down. Production was relocated to Zwick in Ulm.

In 1938, before the beginning of the Second World War, Franz Zwick Senior started building universal testing machines together with the designer Max Späth in Ulm-Einsingen on the site of an old button factory . After the end of the Second World War, the Zwick company developed into one of the leading manufacturers in this field.

In 1992, Zwick merged with the Roell Group to form the Zwick Roell Group. Ulm-Einsingen became the headquarters. After various other acquisitions, the group, which now consists of several companies, was transferred in 2001 to a stock corporation with a holding structure , with the operational tasks being predominantly carried out by Zwick GmbH & Co. KG in Ulm-Einsingen. The other companies have specialized in various segments in the testing machine market.

In 2018 the company's headquarters were relocated from Ulm to Munich.

Products

  • Universal testing machines
  • Pendulum impact testers
  • Hardness testers
  • Extrusion molding machines
  • HDT and Vicat test devices
  • High frequency pulsators
  • Rapid tear machines
  • Automation solutions
  • Material testing software
  • Static materials testing machines for tensile, compression and bending tests
  • Dynamic testing machines and systems
  • Machines and devices for sample preparation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ https://www.zwick.de/ueber-uns

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '18.3 "  N , 9 ° 54' 59.1"  E