Loesche
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Loesche is an owner-managed engineering company founded in Berlin in 1906 and currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany that designs, manufactures and services vertical roller mills for grinding of coal, cement raw materials, granulated slag, industrial minerals and ores. At present, more than 400 people are working for Loesche in Germany, around 850 are employed worldwide.[1]
Company History
In 1906, the engineer Curt von Grueber established a company for the design and sale of Kent mills in Berlin. Curt von Grueber Technisches Bureau – the forerunner of Loesche GmbH –was a manufacturer of cement and phosphate mills. In 1912, the company began manufacturing its products in its own manufacturing facility, initially in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and later in Berlin-Teltow. Its range of products included Maxecon mills, Hauenschild rotary grate kilns, and all kinds of machinery for cement production, including crushers and screw conveyors.
In July 1912 Ernst Curt Loesche joined the company as a young engineer. He soon worked his way up through the ranks to a management position and became a partner in the company in 1919.
Despite the fact that the German cement industry found itself in a deep and sustained crisis after the First World War, Curt von Grueber Technisches Bureau managed to stay afloat by supplying new coal-fired power stations with mills. In 1927, Ernst Curt Loesche[2] developed the Loesche mill for the Klingenberg power station in Berlin-Rummelsburg and in 1937, Ernst Curt Loesche bought Curt von Grueber’s share in the company and became sole owner.
The outbreak of the Second World War was a caesura in the history of Ernst Curt Loesche’s company. As was the case with many other machine manufacturers, the company was obliged to produce armaments for the German war effort: the Reich Air Ministry soon replaced the cement industry as the company’s largest customer. Following a damaging air raid in 1943, production at the Teltow works very nearly ground to a halt. In 1945, at the end of the war, the Soviet occupation forces insisted that the company’s machinery in Teltow be dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union. Only a few months later, the company was back in business working with out-dated machinery. When the Soviet Military Administration expropriated Curt von Grueber Maschinenbauanstalt without paying any form of compensation in April 1948, Ernst Curt Loesche decided to leave Berlin and rebuild his company in one of the three western zones of occupation.
After the expropriation of the Berlin works, Ernst Curt Loesche and some of the employees who had worked for him in Berlin began rebuilding the company, which was now known as Loesche Hartzerkleinerungs- und Zementmaschinen KG, in a ruined building in Düsseldorf in the summer of 1948. When Ernst Curt Loesche died unexpectedly in November of the same year, his son, Ernst Guenter, took over the business. Under his leadership and with its own manufacturing facility in Neuss, Loesche KG re-established itself in the 1950s and after 35 years as managing director of the company, Ernst Guenter Loesche retired in late 1983.
With Dr. Thomas Loesche at the helm, the third generation of the Loesche family is now managing the company. In 1992 the company moved into a new, larger office building on Hansaallee.
The collapse of economies in South-East Asia in 1997 plunged the company into a deep crisis. However, new ideas and the introduction of a series of rationalization measures enabled the company to recover.
In August 1, 2008, Loesche GmbH founded Loesche Automation GmbH. The new company was active in the distribution and further development of the Loesche Industrial Automation product for crushing plants.
In May 2009 the quality certificate was prolonged until 2012 by the internationally renowned certifier Lloyd`s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA). Basis of this certification is the revision of ISO 9001:2008 valid since December 2008.
External links
References
- ^ "New Director at Loesche". Coal International. January February 2013.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Lynch, Rowland, Alban J., Chester A. The History of Grinding. SME, 2005. p. 83. ISBN 0873352386, 9780873352383.
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Bibliography "Mills for the World" 100 Years Loesche, 1906 - 2006
Brundiek, Horst. Die Geschichte der Loesche-Mühle, manuscript.
Brundiek, Horst, Kohlenmühlen un mittlere Lesitungen (Problemstellungen und Problemlösungen an Fallbeidpielen), paper given at the conference "Technik im Gespräch" in Düsseldorf, 17 March, 1982
Brundiek, Horst, "Horst Brundiek - The Father of the 4-Roller-Mill", special edition Zement-Kalk-Gips, 2000
Curt von Grueber Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Berlin, Special print-out from the Deutsches Wirtschaftarchiv, date unknown.
Publication commemorating the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the company, Düsseldorf, 1981
Fischer, Wolfram (publisher), Die Geschichte der Stromversorgung, Frankfurt a.M., 1992
Loesche E.G. and Frommelt, G, "Das moderne Schachtofenwerk Semen Kupang auf der Insel Timor /Indonesien", special edition of ZKG, year 37 (1984) no. 12, p. 3-7
Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V. (publisher), 125 Jahre Forschung für Qualität und Fortschritt, Düsseldorf, 2002