Grillo-Werke AG
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Metal and chemical industry |
| Founded 📆 | 1842 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
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Key people | Ulrich Grillo (CEO)[1]
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| Revenue🤑 | 623.48 million Euro[2] (2020) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 1,287[2] (2019) |
| 🌐 Website | www.grillo.de |
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The Grillo-Werke is an internationally active family business with a total of six production sites in Germany, France, Belgium and England, which supplies raw materials, semi-finished products and products in such different industries. such as automotive, electronics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paint, glass or animal feed. The subsidiary Rheinzink produces components made of zinc for many construction applications. The head office is located in Duisburg.
In March 2017, Grillo-Werke celebrated its 175th anniversary.[3] In fiscal year 2020 (from 1. October 2019 to September 30, 2020), the entire Group generated sales of EUR 623 million with its broad portfolio of zinc products and sulfur chemicals. The Grillo-Werke with their metal and metal works. Chemical activities generated sales of EUR 303.6 million (2019: EUR 339 million), Rheinzink GmbH & Co. KG to EUR 249.8 million (EUR 268.4 million) and Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH to EUR 42.9 million (EUR 57.8 million). The export quota is just under 50%.
As of 30 September 2020, the Grillo Group employed a total of 1287 people (incl. Management Board and Managing Director of the fully consolidated companies), of which 37 were trainees.[4]
Business units
Grillo-Werke AG comprises business activities in the metal and chemical sectors. The entire Grillo Group also includes the zinc oxide activities of Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH and Rheinzink.
Metal Business Unit
The Metal business unit has plants in Duisburg and Goslar, Zinacor S. A. in Belgium and Metra Non-Ferrous Ltd. in England. The main products are finished products and semi-finished products made of zinc, from zinc powder for batteries, wires, strips, rods, die-cast alloys as well as patented Grillo-KKS- Concrete, for corrosion protection of reinforced concrete structures.
Chemicals Business Unit
The chemistry division of Grillo-Werke AG consists of plants in Duisburg and Frankfurt as well as CHEMAD GmbH in Duisburg. Their activities are focused on sulfur chemistry. Their products are mainly used in industry, animal feed production, cleaning agents, cosmetics and food. It produces sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid and their derivatives.
At its Duisburg site, Grillo is one of the largest processors of used sulfuric acid in Europe. At the Duisburg site, around 120,000 tons of sulfuric acid are recycled annually using a process developed in-house.[3] The acid is split at high temperatures and thus obtained high-purity sulphur dioxide. Among other things, recycled scrap (materials with very high copper contents), which is produced at the raw material partner Aurubis in Lünen, is used to produce the zinc contained in KRS oxide. , which is then processed by Grillo into zinc sulphate. The cooperation is known as Closing-The-Loop.[5]
At the site in the Industriepark Höchst, Europe's largest production plant produces dimethyl ether (DME)[6] and Sulfur trioxide (SO3) Dimethyl sulfate (DMS). DMS is an important raw material for the production of cosmetics, fabric softeners for textiles, paints, pharmaceuticals and agricultural products. The Höchst sulfuric acid plant also provides Oleum and 96% and 98% sulphuric acid. Europe's largest plant in Höchst Sodium bisulfate.
Rheinzink GmbH & Co. KG
Rheinzink is the Grillo Group's business unit with the highest turnover and, according to its own statements, the German market leader in titanium and zinc production for the construction market. Zinc sheets are produced for roof drainage products from rain gutters over roofs and facades. Titanium zinc by Rheinzink is very popular with internationally renowned architects.[7]
Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH
Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH, as a 100% subsidiary of Grillo-Werke in Goslar, is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of zinc oxide, which is made of high-purity Special High Grade Zinc (SHG zinc) and is mainly known as Excipient and active ingredient in pharmaceutical and cosmetic products (e.g. as UV protection), as well as in technical applications such as B. Batteries , catalytic converters, paints or electronics, the main sales markets are in Europe.
History
The history of Grillo-Werke is closely linked to the development of the Ruhr area (cf. first phase of industrialization) The history of the Grillo family is an example of the economic impact of migration (cf. Exulants).
History and early years (from 1842)
About 400 years ago, the Grillos immigrated as Protestant religious refugees from Italy via Switzerland to the German lands and later also to the Ruhr area. The ancestor was Wilhelm Grillo (1819–1889), who in 1848/49 built a rolling mill in Neumühl (today a district of Duisburg) using the water power of the Emscher and produced zinc sheet.[8]
With the permission to operate a steam engine in 1854, Wilhelm Grillo laid the foundation for the Oberhausen companies, where he initially operated a zinc roller, produced luminous gas from 1860 and in 1865 with the production of Zinc white began to produce a zinc oxide grade, which v. a. was used as a color pigment.
Industrial growth (1880 to World War II)
From 1881, the raw zinc required by the Oberhausen companies was used in their own smelter in Duisburg-Hamborn.
The gases produced during the roasting of the zinc ores were processed on the factory premises by Rhenania Aachen on sulphuric acid. Grillo began processing the gases into Sulfuric acid, for which a large plant was built in 1887.
Zinc metallurgy and sulfur chemistry belong together from their origins, because zinc and sulfur are essential components of the starting ores for zinc extraction. Both elements still form the basis for the business of Grillo-Werke today.
From 1895, the Grillo-Werke also took over the production of sulfuric acid itself.
Since 1908 , the zinc from the roasted material in Muffle furnaces, processed into zinc sheets at the Hamborn site, where the zinc roller was equipped with an electric drive.
Until the beginning of the During the Second World War, the company developed into the largest manufacturer of semi-finished zinc and zinc white products as well as sulphur dioxide supplier in Germany. After the Second World War and the war-related shutdown of production, the facilities were rebuilt, except for the zinc smelter.
Reconstruction and growth in the post-war years
In 1964, Grillo founded the "Studiengesellschaft für Metallverarbeitung" together with Stolberger Zink AG and Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG. She succeeds in adapting the continuous casting roller invented by the American Hazelett for aluminum casting. The Rheinzink in Datteln, which was jointly built in 1966 , uses the process on an industrial scale. Rheinzink was fully acquired by the Grillo Group in 2005. Since 1966, the renaming of the Aktiengesellschaft für Zinkindustrie to Grillo-Werke AG also showed that the business areas were to be expanded under the common family name.
In 1974 Grillo withdrew completely from Oberhausen. The Zinc white production and also the plastics production established at the Voerde site since the 1950s were relocated to Goslar.
In 1990, the metal and metal Farbwerke Goslar was completely taken over by Grillo-Werke and renamed Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH. The production of high-purity zinc powder was also established at this location.
In 1997, the Belgian company Zinacor, a manufacturer of zinc wires and zinc-aluminium wires, was acquired.
In 1997, the sulfur chemistry of the former Hoechst AG in the industrial park Frankfurt-Höchst was taken over.
In 2000, the Grillo-Werke of the Foundation Initiative of the German Economy. The Grillo family wants to contribute to the reparation and recognition of the suffering of forced labor during the Third Reich.[9]
In 2007, Dimethylsulfate production (DMS) was acquired from Clariant AG in Industriepark Höchst. 2012 was supplemented by the construction of a new plant for the production of dimethyl ether, the Starting material for DMS production.[10]
Present
More than 150 shareholders hold shares in Grillo-Werke AG, which generated sales of approx. 310 million euros in 2015 . Grillo-Werke AG is 87% leveraged, with company assets amounting to EUR 44 million.[11]
The company has been in the red for years.[12] Due to a deferred tax burden since 1999 (which amounts to more than half of the equity of Grillo-Werke AG), the municipalities agreed to maintain these debts for many years. in order not to deprive the company of its livelihood.[11]
Grillo-Werke AG is a subsidiary of the Grillo Group. The Grillo Group, which generates a turnover of 637.85 million euros, is owned by the children of Herbert, Gabriela and Rainer Grillo. In the subsidiary of the Grillo Group, Grillo-Werke AG, 150 shareholders around Rainer and Gabriela Grillo (66%), as well as Ulrich Grillo are involved.
Ulrich Grillo's father held less than 2% of the shares in Grillo Werke.[13] In the course of his appointment as CEO of the entire group, Grillo acquired an almost 10% stake in Grillo-Werke AG.[13] The purchase price amounted to almost 6 million euros and was made with 1 million euros equity.[14] Except for the years 1988 to 1994, family members were and are always at the top of the company. Gabriela and Ulrich Grillo are currently at the helm.
2020 Partial closure of Grillo Zinkoxid GmbH in Goslar.[15]
Corporate ethics
Grillo's business objective is based on the roots of the Protestant ethics of its founders. It is not primarily aimed at rapid increases in sales and profits, but is committed to certain values and long-term oriented. Entrepreneurial freedom therefore includes the right to form independent opinions, but is not a carte blanche for speculation. "Crises are combated by recognising room for manoeuvre and not by calling for state funding" (statement by Gabriela Grillo).[8]
The loyalty of the employees to the company is high, that of the Grillo family to the employees as well as to the region: the family is the founder of social, cultural and sports facilities.[16]
References
- Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg e.V. : Duisburger Hüttenwerke, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-364-8.
- Lutz Engelskirchen, Zink – Das achte Metall, Essen 2006 (=Schriftenreihe des Freilichtmuseums Hagen), S. 48ff.
- Claudia Bruch, Zink Altenberg – Zinkproduktion, in: Schwerindustrie: Katalog zur Ausstellung, ed. by Joachim Schaier / Daniel Stemmrich (Landschaftsverband / Rheinisches Industriemuseum Oberhausen), Essen 1997, pp. 22–29
- Website of Grillo-Werke AG
- description of all sites on this theme route as part of the Route of Industrial Heritage
- Frühe Dokumente und Zeitungsartikel: Grillo-Werke in den Historischen Pressearchiven der ZBW
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Management. In: grillo.de
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bundesanzeiger: Annual and consolidated financial statements for the financial year of 1. October 2019 to 30 September 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Specialist in zinc and sulfur | CHEManager". Retrieved 2021-12-04.
- ↑ "Home – Federal Gazette". Retrieved 2021-12-04.
- ↑ "Functioning circular economy: Extraction of zinc compounds from recycled raw materials | Initiative ZINK". Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ↑ "Grillo builds dimethyl ether production in Frankfurt". Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ↑ Alfons Oebbeke. "First Libeskind Villa opened". baulinks.de. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Duisburger Geschichten und Geschichte: Cricket against locusts". rp-online.de. 2018-09-14. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
- ↑ "COMPANY PORTRAIT". grillo.de. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
- ↑ "Grillo builds dimethyl ether production in Frankfurt". chemie.de. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Change of leadership: Turning point at BDI". handelsblatt.com. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ↑ "manager magazin 3/2017 - Table of contents". Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Moritz Döbler (2012-11-26). "Ulrich Grillo: "I am energy-intensive"". Der Tagesspiegel Online. ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ↑ Bundesanzeiger: Annual financial statements of Ulrich Grillo Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH for the financial year of 1. Januar 2007 bis zum 31. December 2007
- ↑ Marvin König (6 October 2020). "Another low blow for Oker: Grillo cuts 75 jobs". regionalheute.de. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
- ↑ "Home - Foundation of the Herbert Grillo Family". grillohandel.de. Archived from the original on 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
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