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EPC Group
Company typeprivate (GmbH)
Founded1994 (1994) in Rudolstadt
FounderPeter Henkel
Headquarters
Arnstadt
,
Germany
Number of locations
7[1] (2023)
Area served
worldwide
Key people
  • Jens Henkel
  • Ulf Henkel
  • Nadine Henkel
  • Tim Henkel
Productsindustrial plants
(turnkey facilities)
Brands
  • EPC
  • EPCat
  • EPC inside PET
  • EPC PETvantage
  • EPC variPLANT
  • EPC variPILOT
  • EPC variYARN
Servicestechnology licensing, engineering, construction
OwnersHenkel family
Number of employees
160[2] (2023)
Subsidiaries
  • EPC Engineering & Technologies GmbH
  • HI Bauprojekt GmbH
Websiteepc.com

EPC Group is a German engineering and construction company.[3] It builds large industrial plants and infrastructure projects around the world.[2] The history of the family business goes back to the 19th century and in the present form, it exists since 1994.[4] The headquarters of the EPC Group are located in Arnstadt, Thuringia.[2][1] 2014, the EPC Group was named one of the top 100 innovators of the German Mittelstand.[5][6][7] In November 2017, the German Business Magazine WirtschaftsWoche honored the subsidiary company EPC Engineering & Technologies GmbH (ranked at position 28 among the 50 most innovative small and medium-sized companies in Germany) as the most innovative company in the Eastern part of Germany.[8]

History

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The roots of the EPC Group go back to 1873,[9] when August Oskar Henkel registered business to the princedom of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.[10] The purpose of the company was agricultural machinery engineering.[2] Until 1933, the Henkel family successfully produced several types of machines. After World War II, the company was discontinued, but the owners kept working as engineers.[10] After the German reunification, Peter Henkel founded the EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH as a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) in 1993.[11] The company began trading in 1994.[10] The company was a spin-off of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza, a former publicly owned operation (Volkseigener Betrieb) in East Germany.[5] In the early days of the EPC Group, the company recruited many employees of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza, particularly chemists and engineers.[12] Some of them have worked for the engineering business unit of the Thüringer Faser AG,[13] one of the successor companies of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza.[14]

The company's activities were crucial for the development of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza to a modern industrial park for industries of all kind.[15] 1995, Peter Henkel founded a second company named EPC Technology GmbH.[16] Today, both the EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH and the EPC Technology GmbH, as well as other companies, are subsidiaries of the EPC Holding GmbH, doing business as EPC Group.[9][17] Ten years after its foundation, the EPC Group and all of its subsidiaries had about 150 employees. In the following years, exports continuously increased, especially to the Arab world, Asia and Russia.[18] For example, the EPC Group built a plant for plastic granulates in Saudi Arabia,[19] which is one of the largest revamp projects in the world.[20] Similar facilities for the production of Polycarbonate have been built in China, with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons per year.[21] These projects were recognized as important for both the company and the whole industry.[22] In 2009, the EPC Group acquired the CRYOTEC Anlagenbau GmbH, a cryogenic plant construction company in Wurzen, Saxony, with roots going back to the year 1879.[23] They have terminated the cooperation in the year 2023. Today, the companies HI Bauprojekt GmbH and RMN Ingenieure GmbH are also part of the EPC Group.[4]

Operations

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The EPC Group builds turnkey facilities for chemicals, polymers and fibers, pharma and fine chemicals, renewable energies, technical gases and biotechnologies, as well as infrastructure projects.[4] In addition to the design and construction, the supervision of the commissioning and operation of industrial plants are an important part of the business.[3] Most of the revenues come from projects in foreign countries.[24] The shareholders of the EPC Group are Jens, Ulf, Nadine and Tim Henkel,[4] the second generation of their family to run the company.[2] Since 2021, the managing board was expanded with Karol Kerrane and Franz-Josef Willems, stepping into their roles as managing directors.[3] The headquarters of the EPC Holding GmbH, which is the holding company of the EPC Group, are in Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle,[25] where the machinery factory of August Oskar Henkel was located.[10] The EPC Group and all of its subsidiaries have locations in Alzenau, Arnstadt, Gera, Jena, Leuna, Rudolstadt as well as Wurzen.[1] Another office in the Thuringian state capital of Erfurt is being planned.[26]

Since 2000, the EPC Group is a member of the Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft e.V. (BVMW),[13] a well-known German association for small and medium-sized enterprises.[27] The EPC Group continually supports regional sports teams, for example the football club FC Einheit Rudolstadt.[28][29]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Contact". EPC Group. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Industrieanlagen Made in Rudolstadt". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German). March 21, 2016. p. 22.
  3. ^ a b Ranga Yogeshwar, ed. (2014). Innovationsasse: Ranga Yogeshwar präsentiert Deutschlands Innovationselite (in German). Munich: Redline. pp. 367–369. ISBN 978-3-86414-471-4.
  4. ^ a b c d "About us". EPC Group. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Enzian, Heike (July 30, 2014). "Jedes Projekt ein Unikat". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German). p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  6. ^ "Unter den Top 100 des Mittelstandes". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German). July 4, 2014. p. 5.
  7. ^ [1] Website Top 100
  8. ^ [2] Website WirtschaftsWoche: Innovationssprünge kommen aus dem Mittelstand
  9. ^ a b "Unternehmer zu Gast bei Firma EPC in Rudolstadt". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German). March 12, 2015. p. 13.
  10. ^ a b c d "Turnkey Plant Construction & Engineering Services" (PDF). Company Presentation. EPC Group. April 8, 2015. pp. 6–9. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  11. ^ "EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH". Company Register. Bundesanzeiger. May 3, 1993. Retrieved June 1, 2016. Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 203182
  12. ^ "Gubens Industriegebiet soll sein Gesicht verändern". Lausitzer Rundschau (in German). November 30, 2000.
  13. ^ a b "EPC Rudolstadt Mitglied im BVMW". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German). September 9, 2000.
  14. ^ Müller, Hanno (July 19, 2012). "Verkauft an windige Investoren aus Indien". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German). p. 3.
  15. ^ "Wo kaum ein Stein auf dem anderen blieb". Lausitzer Rundschau (in German). September 27, 2001.
  16. ^ "EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH". Company Register. Bundesanzeiger. June 12, 1995. Retrieved June 1, 2016. Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 205326
  17. ^ "Ganzheitliche Lösungen im Anlagenbau". Process (in German). Vol. 872. May 12, 2009. p. 33.
  18. ^ "Geplant, betreut, überwacht". Lausitzer Rundschau (in German). June 1, 2005. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  19. ^ "Probebetrieb in Saudi-Arabien". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German). April 8, 2009. p. 6.
  20. ^ Wolf-Dieter Bose (April 8, 2009). "Richtung Mekka". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German).
  21. ^ Jentsch, Bernd (May 28, 2013). "Chinesische Unternehmen schaffen Arbeitsplätze in Thüringen". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German). p. 3.
  22. ^ Lücke, Dieter (June 17, 2015). "Rudolstädter machen mit Anlage in Fernost einen großen Schritt". Thüringische Landeszeitung (in German). p. 4. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  23. ^ "Stadtrat diskutiert über Cryotec – Cryotec seit 1879 in Wurzen". Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). November 8, 2011. p. 16.
  24. ^ Girwert, Florian (November 8, 2014). "90 Prozent der Arbeit finden im Ausland statt". Thüringische Landeszeitung (in German). p. 5.
  25. ^ "EPC Holding GmbH". Company Register. Bundesanzeiger. May 3, 1993. Retrieved June 1, 2016. Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 209586
  26. ^ "Über 300 neue Wohnungen und ein Bürogebäude entstehen auf der Lingel-Fläche in Erfurt". Thüringer Allgemeine (in German). April 21, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  27. ^ "Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft". Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  28. ^ Gerlach, Hartmut (August 14, 2003). "Vereinsgeschichte in über 200 Programmheften". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German).
  29. ^ Gerlach, Hartmut (October 18, 2004). "Einheit Rudolstadt mit kluger Taktik". Ostthüringer Zeitung (in German).
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