Number of employees over 800 (2015) Headquarters Herzebrock-Clarholz Founded 1912 | Website craemer.com Revenue 217 million EUR (2015) Type of business GmbH (Holding) | |
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Key people Achim Brandenburg (Chairman) Products Metal Forming, Plastics Processing and Tool Making | ||
The Craemer Group is a Corporate Group based in the German town of Herzebrock-Clarholz (district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia). Today, the company, founded in 1912 by Paul Craemer as Press-, Stanz- und Hammerwerke GmbH, employs a staff of over 800 in the fields of Metal Forming, Tool Making and Plastics Processing and achieved a total operating performance of around 217 million Euros in 2015. The group consists of the umbrella company Craemer Holding GmbH, its subsidiary Paul Craemer GmbH and the subsidiaries thereof.
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Company Profile
The Craemer Group is an internationally active family company specialised in metal forming, plastics processing and tool making. Their headquarters is the Paul Craemer GmbH founded in 1912 and located in the German town of Herzebrock-Clarholz. Today, the group has five operating companies in Europe: the headquarters in Germany with production in all three business activities, a metal factory in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia (Craemer Slovakia, s.r.o.) and in Attendorn, Germany (Craemer Attendorn GmbH & Co. KG), a plastics injection moulding plant in Telford, Great Britain (Craemer UK Ltd) and an independent sales subsidiary for the plastics programme in France, in the Paris metropolitan area (Craemer France Sarl.)
In Metal Forming, Craemer develops, constructs and manufactures precision-stamped and large parts mainly for the automotive industry, in particular for the interior: primarily seat pans, but also seating components, elements for seatbelt systems and doors as well as crossbar beams.
The focus of Plastics Processing lies in the development, production and marketing of plastic pallets, storage and transport containers as well as environmental systems of the Kliko brand. In the field of "intelligent plastics pallets" Craemer supplies complete solutions to optimise logistics processes on the basis of RFID technology of the product brand Palcontrol.
All the tools and moulds needed for production are made by Craemer's own Tool Making facility. With the production of their entire product range the company ranks among the leading European producers and is also recognised as one of the world's leading manufacturers of high quality plastic pallets.
History
In May 1912 the engineer Paul Craemer (1874–1940) founded the Press-, Stanz- und Hammerwerke GmbH for metal forming in the German town of Herzebrock, East-Westphalia. A rolling mill was established on the new premises on the outskirts of Herzebrock in 1928.
After the Second World War, the eldest grandson of the company founder, Hans-Joachim Brandenburg, began the reconstruction of the company. In the 1950s the company was recognised as a major supplier of parts for agricultural machinery. In 1958, Craemer opened a new business activity for plastics processing and started with the injection moulding of large containers. In 1967, the company developed the worldwide first plastic pallet moulded in one shot, for which they received a patent in the same year. In the 1980's waste disposal containers were included in the plastic product range. In the business field of metal forming, 1978 marked the demolition of the hot rolling mill and thus the final change to the processing of cold rolling sheets. In the 1980's Craemer became established as an automotive supplier, manufacturing metal formed parts for cars.
In 1998, the production started in the metal plant in Slovakia. In 2001, Craemer took over the Kliko-Entsorgunssysteme GmbH (Waste Disposal Systems), opened a plastics processing plant in Telford in 2006 and founded a distribution company in the Paris metropolitan area on May 1st, 2009. In 2015, Craemer took over the SKA GmbH & Co. KG, a well-established, German metal processing company in Attendorn, Sauerland Region (Olpe district).