Bauer Group

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  • Thomas Bauer, CEO
  • Klaus Reinhardt, Chairman of the Board

The Bauer AG (own spelling: BAUER AG) is a publicly traded construction and engineering company based in Upper Bavaria Schrobenhausen.

Bauer is a leader in complex excavation pits, foundations and vertical seals as well as in the development and manufacture of related machinery for this dynamic market. In addition, the Group uses its expertise in the exploration, mining and safeguarding of valuable resources. The company of Bauer Group recorded in 2012 with approximately 10,300 employees working in around 70 countries achieved total Group revenues of 1.45 billion euros.

History

In 1790, acquired Sebastian Bauer (then: " Paur " ) from Deggendorf, a son in the pre- generation of Osterhofen ( Lower Bavaria ) originating coppersmith family, a coppersmith in Schrobenhausen. For over a century the coppersmiths worked for the establishment of breweries, covered with copper roofs and making objects for household ago.

Andreas Bauer drilled in 1902 in Schrobenhausen for the new water station house of an artesian well. The wells were new business branch of the company. For his son Karl Bauer of the construction of the central water supply of the city Schrobenhausen was a key project in 1928. With this reference, he turned the operation for well drilling company and was with the construction of wells and water supply systems for cities and industries soon in Bavaria active.

Karl Heinz Bauer, born in 1928 and since 1953 Partner, 1956 sole managing director and directed the operation of the special civil engineering. Two years later, the invention of the soil anchor followed on site Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. The company reported on the construction procedure for a patent and began its international marketing. The first foreign construction site was located in 1959 in Switzerland - the anchor began his success story. In the 1960s, this construction method was used in the subway construction in many cities of the Federal Republic.

The company began in 1969 with the design and manufacture of the first anchor drill and so went the first steps in the field of mechanical engineering. In 1975, the company received its first orders in Libya, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In the following years expanded Bauer Special Civil engineering and equipment sales to more and more countries from the mid- 1980s with a new focus in the Far East.

In 1976, the range of machines around the rotary drilling rig BG 7 has been extended. The BG- Series was developed in the following decades, the core area of the Bauer mechanical engineering. In 1984 the design and construction of a dedicated trench wall cutter. Two years later, Thomas Bauer was, since 1984, the second managing director, sole Managing Director. Under his leadership, the internationalization of the farmers' group in the engineering and civil engineering.

In 1990, the founding of the farmer and Mourik Environmental GmbH & Co was ( briefly BMU). From the farmers' Umwelt GmbH developed after 2002 with the acquisition of EWS filtering and water technology. In 1992, the takeover of the East German company Schachtbau Nordhausen GmbH. The year before was founded with shaft sinking their daughter SPESA Special Construction and renovation GmbH.

1994 Bauer Aktiengesellschaft was founded as a holding company. Then received the 1996 the German Beteiligungs AG on capital increase shares of Bauer AG. Started in 2001 with the restructuring of the group. The " Bauer Maschinen GmbH" with the companies clamping Drilling, MAT Mischanlagentechnik, RTG Rammtechnik, Euro Drill, TracMec and PILECO were to operate independently in the market.

On 4 July 2006 Bauer went public. The Company adopted on 20 April 2007, the German Water and Energy GmbH ( GWE ), an extension of business activities in well engineering, water and geothermal energy. In April 2009, a new factory premises was inaugurated with over 34,000 sqm of warehouse space in Edelshausen, previously the work Aresing was extended. Bauer is the world leader in the production of the entire range of machines for specialist foundation engineering.

Group structure

The Group's business is divided into three segments: Construction, Equipment and Resources. The Construction segment carries out specialist foundation engineering foundation and excavation around the world and their project development and related construction services. The Equipment segment provides Bauer is the world market leader in a complete range of machinery, equipment and tools for specialist foundation engineering. The Resources segment encompasses the Group's activities in the field of extraction and production of raw materials, environmental, geothermal energy as well as materials for wells expansion (including pumps and drills, screens and casings).

The group includes a large number of subsidiaries; among others, the shaft sinking Nordhausen.

Special construction methods

The companies in the group were instrumental in the development of various construction methods for specialist foundation engineering. Known methods include:

  • Slatwall
  • Sheet piling
  • Soldier pile
  • Anchor method
  • Deep Shake
  • High-pressure injection ( Bauer HDI)
  • Penetration injection
  • Ground Improvement
  • CSV soil stabilization
  • Mixed - in-place methods ( MIP method )
  • Cutter Soil Mixing (CSM ) method
  • Preloaded Stabverpresspfähle (SIA ) method
  • Ductile piles
Bauer Media Group Types of business entity International Securities Identification Number Supervisory board Bernd Venohr SDAX BayWa Deutz AG Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Jungheinrich Schaltbau Group Sixt Tom Tailor Integrated Authority File
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