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Wuppermann
Quality made of Steel since 1872
The Wuppermann name stands for experience and expertise in the manufacture of quality steel products — for innovative product development, streamlined production, and first-class finishing. Ever since its foundation in 1872, the family-owned company has pursued a strategy of long-term growth and the steady creation of value in the interest of its customers, employees and shareholders.
1872
Theodor Wuppermann founds Wuppermann — a manufacturer of semi-finished products and forged parts — in the Oberbilk district of Düsseldorf.
1879
Theodor Wuppermann sells the factory in Düsseldorf and relocates the company to Leverkusen, where it is based to this very day.
1888
Start of the manufacture of strip iron.
1907
Workforce numbers in Leverkusen rise to 400.
1930
Start of the production of cold-rolled profiles.
1964
Acquisition of the Austrian company Eisen- und Metallwerke Altmünster GmbH (EMA) by the Wuppermann family. In 1991, EMA will become Wuppermann Metalltechnik GmbH.
1971
Acquisition of a stake in the Burgbernheim-based company Rohrtechnik Osthoff GmbH.
1983
The rolling mill in Leverkusen is sold to Krupp Stahl AG in the wake of the European steel crisis.
1984
Rohrtechnik Osthoff GmbH (Burgbernheim) becomes a fully owned member of the group under the name of Wuppermann Rohrtechnik GmbH.
1985
The companies remaining after the sale of the rolling mill in Leverkusen are consolidated to form the Wuppermann Group, under the control of the holding company Wuppermann Handel und Industrie GmbH, which is renamed into Wuppermann AG in 2000.
1986
The non-profit company Wuppermann-Bildungswerk is founded in partnership with the City of Leverkusen, Krupp Stahl AG, and the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
1987
Founding of Wuppermann Austria GmbH, to produce narrow steel strip with zinc-coated edges, in Judenburg, Austria, together with 30 percent-stakeholder voestalpine Stahl GmbH, principal supplier of the primary material.
1989
Wuppermann launches a new process for galvanizing hot-rolled strip steel, thereby laying the foundations for a major wing of the company's current operations.
1995
Acquisition of Metallfertiger Kagerer, based in Linz, Austria. Two years later, the production operations will be integrated with those of Wuppermann Metalltechnik GmbH in Altmünster, Austria.
1996
Linz-based Wuppermann Bandstahl GmbH, a subsidiary of Wuppermann Austria GmbH, launches production of medium-width hot-dip galvanized strip.
1997
Founding of Wuppermann Engineering GmbH in Judenburg, Austria, as a specialist for project management, plant design, product development, and process engineering.
2000
Founding of Wuppermann Staal Nederland B.V., together with 30 percent-stakeholder Tata Steel, in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, and the start of construction of a new plant for galvanizing and processing wide strip. This ultramodern location comprises a galvanizing plant for maximum coil widths of 1,550 mm, along with an integrated pickling plant, a cold-rolling stand, and a slitting facility complete with packing lines.
2001
Wuppermann Kovotechnica s.r.o. is added to the group and opens up new markets in Eastern Europe.
The sales and marketing operations of the Flat Products Business Unit are transferred to a new company, Wuppermann Stahl GmbH, in Leverkusen.
The Städtische Gemeinschaftshauptschule Scharnhorststraße, a secondary school in Leverkusen, is renamed the "Theodor-Wuppermann-Schule".
2004
Wuppermann Blechformtechnik GmbH, formerly RIME GmbH, a well-known manufacturer of sheet metal in of Herbolzheim, Germany, joins the company group.
2006
Services for the group's Austrian companies and IT services for the group as a whole are centralized at Wuppermann Business Services GmbH, based in Altmünster, Austria.
2008
With the acquisition of the operations of Eroform GmbH, based in Wilnsdorf, Germany, and the founding of Wuppermann Edelstahltechnik GmbH, Wuppermann starts production of stainless steel tubes. Two years later, the company will be amalgamated with Wuppermann Rohrtechnik GmbH.
Acquisition of a majority holding in H&B Fertigungstechnik GmbH, based in Thalgau, one of Austria's leading sheet-metal processors and producers of high-quality welding components.
2011
Acquisition of the remaining stake in H&B Fertigungstechnik GmbH.
Wuppermann acquires KLB Blech in Form GmbH, a specialist for complex and high-quality parts made of sheet or metal. With locations in Herbolzheim and Kenzingen, Germany, it is situated in close proximity to Wuppermann Blechformtechnik GmbH.
Acquisition of CMD Creative Metall Design AG, the Wuppermann Group's first production location in Switzerland.
The long-standing commercial agency in Paris becomes part of the Wuppermann Group and starts trading under the name of Wuppermann France S.A.S. Its function is to strengthen Wuppermann's sales and marketing operations in France.
Wuppermann founds Wuppermann Polska sp. z o.o., its second location in Eastern Europe, and expands its product portfolio to include black steel tubes.