Coroplast

Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co. KG, short Coroplast, is the name of a company that specializes in the qualitative production of adhesive tapes, cable and wire, and wire harness systems. The company's headquarters is located in Bergisch city of Wuppertal. Worldwide, Coroplast 5,000 employees, including about 700 in Germany, and acts primarily as an automotive supplier.

Coroplast applies in its industry as the market leader. The company serves, among other things, Europe's largest platform PQ 35 of the VW Group, is made on the basis of, among other things, the VW Golf. Other customers come from industry and the craft, especially in the medical and roofing.

Coroplast 2009 generated sales of nearly 250 million euros.

History

Coroplast was founded in 1928 as Fritz Müller electrical insulation in Barmen, which is a district of Wuppertal today. The first years were still influenced by the textile industry, which made Barmen at the time to a major industrial metropolis. The first products brought Coroplast Textilisolierschläuche textile bands for winding of electric motors on the market.

During the 1930s, the company employed one of the first to the use and processing of polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as PVC, and thus is the worldwide pioneer in plastics processing. This high-quality insulating and insulated wires for the German automotive industry could be made before the Second World War.

In the late 1940s, was the first renaming the company, which henceforth bore the name of Coroplast Fritz Müller. By laying back in the years developed and expanded plastics know -how, the company had the opportunity to develop and improve existing products more. PVC was then calendered into sheets, thereby forming a base for self-adhesive insulating tapes has been created. Even with adhesive raw materials continued not to far conventional rubber types, but to a new form of acrylates in aqueous dispersions. Once again stabbed Coroplast emerged as a pioneer, as the use of solvent-free adhesive from an ecological perspective was a novelty.

This laid the foundation for today's business segments was determined later. Over the years, the conventional PVC was added to thermoplastic materials and elastomers. The plastic mixtures required for the production of various piping systems are still largely produced in the company's compounding facility. Parallel to the compounding, calendering and extrusion is Coroplast has established itself as a specialist injection molding of high-quality fabrics. With the added expertise gained during the encapsulation of cables with connectors, installation aids and other raw materials, the company is also in the development and production of sophisticated management systems set as a pioneer.

Management

The management consists of:

• Natalie Mekelburger ( Chief Executive Officer )
• Marcus Söhngen (Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Head of the Business Unit Technical tapes )
• Torben Chamberlain (Head of the divisions cable set systems and cables & wires )
• Tungsten Berns ( Finance, Controlling, IT and Logistics)

Locations

Coroplast applies recently as an international company. In addition to its headquarters in Wuppertal in Germany, it operates three service center in Wolfsburg, Ingolstadt and Stuttgart. It also operates offices in the areas of connectivity ( Plauen, Kruft, Cologne), insulation Trade ( Velbert, Cologne, Planegg ), Other industry & trade ( Jößnitz, Velbert, Cologne, Planegg ) and Harness Components Automotive ( Friedrichroda ).

In addition, Coroplast operates three international locations in Dylaki (Poland ), Shanghai ( China) and Tunis, the Tunisian capital. In addition to cooperating with urine Engineering Services of México, a company of Guanajuato in Mexico.

Worldwide, there are over 20 representative offices and service centers, mainly within Europe and in East and Southeast Asia.

Awards

2013 Coroplast was counted by the Corporate Research Foundation CFR For the sixth time in a row, the top employers in Germany.