Tenova Takraf
TAKRAF is the abbreviation for surface mining equipment, cranes and conveyors, describing a combine of the GDR. It included almost all state-owned enterprises in the industry, as well as suppliers, kombinat own technical research institutes, design offices, and others. Precursor of the combine was the VVB TAKRAF, which existed until 1980 and bearing the name VVB mining equipments and conveyors to 1965. The TAKRAF products were marketed under a unit logo from the name in other countries.
TAKRAF parent company and the seat of the Kombinat VEB line 1985 of loading and transport engineering (VTA ) Leipzig. This operation was in the process of nationalization of the private company Bleichert Transport GmbH and SAG Bleichert Leipzig, which was passed in January 1954, the German Democratic Republic, which emerged. The company changed its name initially as VEB Bleichert transport system factory, in 1955 as VEB heavy machine loading and transport equipment ( VTA) Leipzig and finally in 1973 as VEB loading and transport systems Leipzig Paul Fröhlich.
Directors-General of the Combine or the VVB TAKRAF were the following persons:
- Erwin Fuhlbrügge (1958-1959)
- Helmut Fritzsche (1959-1960)
- Gerhard Springer (1960-1964)
- Rudolf Schuhmacher (1964-1970)
- Gerd -Rainer Grimm ( -1990 )
At the time of re-privatization in 1990 was the Combine from 26 individual farms. Important industrial combine:
- VEB heavy engineering S. M. Kirov Leipzig
- VEB Montan Leipzig
- VEB crane Eberswalde
- VEB excavator, conveyor bridges and equipment ( BFG ) Lauchhammer
- VEB Zemag Zeitz
- VEB conveyors and crane Köthen
- VEB conveyors "7 October, " Magdeburg
- VEB heavy engineering " Georgi Dimitrov " Magdeburg
- VEB Berliner elevator and escalator Berlin
- VEB hoist Suhl
- VEB Saxon bridges and steel building construction Dresden
- VEB extraction equipment Aschersleben
- VEB crane Schmalkalden
- VEB hoist service Sebnitz ( to 1971)
- TAKRAF export-import trade Berlin
- VEB Thüringer steel construction Erfurt
On 1 May 1990, the combine in the TAKRAF heavy engineering AG was transformed, which functioned as a holding company and the THA belonged. You were under the companies that were previously affiliated with the Combine. The following parts of the company were in the subsequent time taken out of this group of companies:
- Kirov Leipzig
- Crane Eberswalde GmbH 1994 to the Vulkan Kocks GmbH, which belonged to Bremer Vulkan.
- VEB heavy engineering " Georgi Dimitrov " Magdeburg Maschinenfabrik GmbH Magdeburg- Buckau treatment systems at 3B TEC GmbH, but 1995 bankruptcy.
- VEB Saxon bridges and steel building construction Dresden 1993 GEA AG, today again an independent company.
From TAKRAF Holding, the TAKRAF plant (TAA ) and the core business of heavy engineering Lauchhammer AG ( LHW AG) TAKRAF Lauchhammer GmbH Leipzig ( TLL) was established in 1992 which operates today as TAKRAF GmbH and operates internationally under the name Tenova TAKRAF.