Putzmeister
Putzmeister Concrete Pumps GmbH, headquartered in Aichtal in Baden-Württemberg is a manufacturer of concrete pumps. Besides machinery for the promotion, distribution, processing, storage and processing of concrete, mortar and thick fabrics are produced. By 2005 the company was the world's largest in its sector in terms of sales and number of employees. Meanwhile, the Chinese construction machinery manufacturer Sany, Putzmeister concrete pump replaced as the world market leader and adopted this the end of January 2012.
History
In 1958, Karl Schlecht, the son of a plasterer Master Bernshausen still a student at the Technical University in Stuttgart ( now University ), the company KS - engineering for the production of plastering machines, which was renamed in 1963 Putzmeister works. His first built for Father's business machine was the subject of his thesis.
With the " Gipsomat " Putzmeister 1965 brought the first automatic gypsum plaster machine in the world to market. Novel pumps for ready-mixed concrete helped the company in 1969 to 45 % market share. With the start of today's company premises in Aichtal began in 1971 the construction of truck-mounted concrete pumps with booms. The following year, the twenty thousandth plastering machine was sold. At the beginning of the 1970s subsidiaries were established in France, Italy, Spain, England and Brazil. Through the acquisition of the company Thomsen, the former global market leader in truck-mounted concrete pumps, Putzmeister is since 1982 in the United States with its own manufacturing active. There were other branches in Japan, China, Denmark, Russia, Korea, Thailand, Turkey, India and South Africa.
Records
In 1986, the Delivery of the largest concrete pump in the world with 62 m boom height was.
With a concrete pump, which overcame a height difference of 310 m during the construction of the Frankfurt telecommunications tower, Putzmeister succeeded in 1977 for the first time a world record. This was made possible by the invention of the so-called automatic ring, the diverter valves and waterproof made of concrete pumps. In the next year we surpassed this result in the Gotthard road tunnel with a delivery height of 340 m at 600 m distance, in 1984 in a Spanish power plant tunnel with 432 m pumping height and finally in 1994 at a power plant in the Italian Riva del Garda, with 532 m head at 900 m cable length.
In the construction of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, came from Putzmeister concrete pumps for use. On 9 April 2008 was achieved with a lifting height of 606 meters, a new world record. For even more pumping height was not required because the upper part of the Burj Khalifa has been designed as a steel structure.
Other Applications
A Putzmeister M58 is since March 2011 the most disastrous accidents in several reactors at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima used. Compared to the initially used fire trucks of the fire proved to be the boom of the concrete pump to be better suited to precisely inject large quantities of cooling water to the reactor containment vessel and into the spent fuel pool.
Later, other pumps were flown to Fukushima, the first aid cooling and will be used later in the possible establishment of a sarcophagus.
Even in the construction of the sarcophagus after the reactor accident at Chernobyl in 1986 eleven truck-mounted concrete pumps, Putzmeister were used, some of which were covered for protection from the radiation lead.
Indicators
In fiscal 2012, the Putzmeister Group with approximately 3,000 employees achieved sales of 675 million euros. Approximately 10% of revenues were generated 20 % in the U.S. and 50 % in the rest of Europe in Germany.
Corporate Structure
Since 2007, Putzmeister Holding GmbH is the leading company for those working in seven market segments subsidiaries. The Putzmeister Concrete Pumps GmbH is responsible for the market as the largest subsidiary field PCT Putzmeister Concrete Technology (concrete pumps) and connected by an affiliation agreement with the holding company. It emerged from the Putzmeister AG, which was the main company of the Putzmeister Group until 2007. The Putzmeister Concrete Pumps GmbH operates, inter alia, another factory next to the assembly plant at its headquarters in Aichtal for the base production of high quality steel components Gruendau. It has 16 subsidiaries worldwide Putzmeister and other investments.
In addition, there are equally the three firms in the market field PMT Putzmeister Mortar Technology ( Putzmeister GmbH, Brinkmann GmbH, Lancy Mixjet SAS), and the Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH in PIT Putzmeister Industrial Technology market - technology field.
Accompanied by local protests was on 30 January 2012, the company in Aichtal announced that the company to the Chinese construction machinery company Sany Corp.. has been sold.