Hoesch Werke
1871 Leopold Hoesch and other members of his family founded the Hoesch iron and steel works in Dortmund (the same year that SA des Aciéries du Rhin (Rheinische Stahlwerke) put a Bessemer steelworks into operation in Duisburg-Ruhrort and August Thyssen established his firm, initially an iron strip rolling mill in Mülheim/Ruhr).
1879 The Hoerder Association in Dortmund introduced the Thomas steel production process to Germany
1907 Merger of Hoesch and the Limburger Fabrik- und Hütten-Verein. This gave a Hoesch a regular buyer for its semi-finished products. The rolling mill in Hohenlimburg subsequently developed into a specialist for spring steel, medium strip and cold rolled products.
1960s Hoerder was incorporated into the Hoesch Group.
1991 Krupp acquired a majority interest in Hoesch as a precursor to a merger[1]
1992 Merger of Fried. Krupp AG and Hoesch AG; the group was restructured into five divisions: Plant Engineering, Automotive, Trade, Mechanical Engineering, Steel and Processing.
1994 Krupp-Hoesch and Thyssen agreed to form JVs in 3 areas of their businesses: flat stainless steel products, tinplate, electro-plate[2]
1997 Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG was formed a joint flat steel company, into which Thyssen Stahl AG and Krupp Hoesch Stahl AG incorporated their flat steel activities.
1998 Merger of Thyssen AG and Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp to form Thyssen Krupp AG[3]
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- [1] History