Type corporation Headquarters Reutte Parent organization Plansee Group | Website Plansee SE website Founded 1921 | |
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Products Molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium and chromium Subsidiaries Ceratizit, Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. Profiles | ||
Plansee SE is a corporation which has its head office in Reutte, Austria, and is a fully owned division of the Plansee Group. This privately owned company manufactures products based on high-performance materials made from refractory metals such as molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium, chromium and their alloys. Its products are used in the lighting, electronics, medical, coatings, energy transmission and distribution, system and furnace construction sectors.
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Plansee SE head office in Reutte, Austria Plansee SE has 35 sites in 21 countries including 13 production sites. It has 5 sites in Japan and 3 each in China, India and the United States. The company has 2 sites each in Austria, Germany and France. The remaining sites are located in Bulgaria, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and Mexico. Further production sites were launched in 2010 in India and in 2011 in Korea.
Company history
Plansee SE was founded by Prof. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf in 1921 under the name Metallwerk Plansee Ges.m.b.H. and initially manufactured molybdenum and tungsten wires. In 1936, ownership of Metallwerk Plansee was transferred to Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG before Paul Schwarzkopf once again became sole proprietor of Metallwerk Plansee GmbH in 1952. From the 1970s onwards, Plansee SE has founded a large number of distribution companies in Japan (1978), Germany (1979), Great Britain (1980), France (1981), Switzerland (1987), The Netherlands (1992), India (1995), Taiwan (2001), Sweden and Brazil (2002), Hong-Kong, China and Korea (2004), Italy and Mexico (2007). During its history, Plansee SE has also acquired many other companies including Elektro-Metall AG (now PLANSEE Powertech AG) in Seon, Switzerland, in 1987. 2003 saw the acquisition of POLESE Company, Inc. in San Diego, USA (now Plansee Thermal Management Solutions), while E/G Electrograph Inc., which has its headquarters in Carlsbad, USA, was taken over in 2007. The most recent take-overs took place in 2010 with the acquisition of Wolfra-Tech Pvt. Ltd. in Mysore, India and in 2011 with the purchase of TCB Korea Co., Ltd. in Korea.