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VOITH AG is a German exempt private company of the Maschinenbauindustrie.

At the point of the VOITH company those stands for VOITH AG with seat in Heidenheim to the Brenz in eastern Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is called operational management getting thing, since that determines and answers for it directly leading company executive committee the general business strategy in the VOITH company. It is supported by company central functions.

Altogether Heidenheim 4,200 that world-wide 30,000 woman employees and coworker work on the location. The company gained a conversion of 3,6 billion euro in the financial year 2003/2004 with a yearly surplus of 92 millions euro.

Chairman of the executive committee is for March 2000 Dr. Hermut Kormann. Supervisory board chairman is the former BDI executive committee Dr. Michael Rogowski.

Companies

VOITH PAPER

Today a third of entire paper production on VOITH PAPER plants is manufactured.

VOITH Siemens hydraulic power generation

A third of the energy won world-wide from water power is produced for three-ravine dam with turbines and generators by VOITH Siemens hydraulic power generation, for example with the large hydro-electric power plants Niagara (1903), Itaipu (1976), (2003)

VOITH turbo

Drive components of VOITH turbo are used world-wide in industriellen plants and on rail and road. In the range of hydrodynamic transmissions VOITH is turbo world market leader. The VOITH Retarder, a hydrodynamic brake, is in many commercial motor vehicles in use. VOITH drive systems are used also in the navigation. An example of it is the Voith-Schneider-propeller (TM), with which ships on the place can turn.

VOITH Industrial services

The division VOITH Industrial services summarizes different service offers, those apart from VOITH also by the companies DIW German industrial maintenance AG, the Prime Minister Group as well as the hearing man industrial technology belonging to the VOITH company to be furnished.

History

Technology

1869 first patent (Raffineur)
1873 supply of the first Francis water turbine
1881 supply of the 1. Paper-making machine
1903 equipment of the cases of Niagara with 12 Francis water turbines (at that time largest turbines of the world)
1922 supply of the 1. Kaplan turbine
1927 development of the Voith-Schneider-propeller (TM)
1929 first turbo-transmission after
1952 development VOITH water tractor, automatic transmission DIWA
1960 development hydrodynamic brake, flotation Deinking procedure
1965 1. Turbo-reversing gearing for Rangierlokomotiven
1978 equipment of the world largest hydro-electric power plant
1985 1. adjustable planetary gear
1995 development fish-friendly turbine
2001 conception One Platform Concept for the paper trade
2003 development VOITH Cycloidal rudder

Enterprise development

1867 establishment of the company J.M. VOITH by Friedrich VOITH
1892 25-year old existence. Coworker: 330
1903 establishment of the work in the down-Austrian pc. with 230 coworkers. Coworker in Heidenheim: 1.000
1917 existence. So far 6,000 water turbines, 200 paper-making machines and 100 magazine grinders were built.
1942 existence: Up to this time 570 paper-making machines, 2,000 pulp grinders and 12,700 water turbines were built.
1945 end of the Second World War. VOITH has 422 dead ones and 154 among its coworkers missed to deplore.
1956 establishment VOITH turbo kg, Crailsheim.
1961 establishment VOITH transmission kg in Heidenheim.
1964 establishment of the subsidiary VOITH S.A. in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1967 existence. Coworker in Heidenheim: 7.500
1994 joint venture: VOITH Sulzer paper technology GmbH
1998 assumption of sharp mountain clutch, salt lattice and of drives, meals.
1999 VOITH acquire the paper-technical business fields of Scapa PLC., Blackburn.
2000 joint venture: VOITH Siemens hydraulic power generation. VOITH receives the industrielle guidance to the DIW German industrial maintenance AG. VOITH transfers the majority of the portions of the joint venture from the Sulzer AG in the paper technology. The company is renamed in VOITH PAPER.
2001 VOITH PAPER take over the paper-technical ranges the chase mountain AG and the Hermann Finckh engine works, as well as the recycling and drainage activities of the Kvaerner Pulp & PAPER (Norway).
2003 VOITH Industrial services enter with the Imo guardian group (Ludwigshafen). VOITH PAPER strengthens the operational readiness level in Scandinavia with the acquisition of Pikoteknik (Finland).
2004 VOITH turbo GmbH & CO. Kg (Heidenheim) acquires the H+L hydraulics GmbH (rod home).
2005 assumption the Prime Minister Group, Cincinnati, Ohio.