Plansee SE
The privately owned company was founded in 1921 by Paul Schwarzkopf and produces powder-metallurgical high-performance materials (HPM) made from metals such as molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium and chromium and their alloys.
Applications include the electronics, automotive and lighting industries, medical and coating technology, energy transmission and distribution, and plant and furnace construction.
[6] In 1930 Plansee hired Richard Kieffer [de], a chemist, who became head of the carbide department between 1932 and 1934[5] and contributed to the development of powder metallurgy.
created around 400 jobs in Reutte, it enjoyed a high reputation among the population and its Jewish employees were spared anti-Semitic attacks until the beginning of 1938, despite the rise of National Socialism.
[8] Shortly after the Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, Schwarzkopf tried to sell the company to Julius Pintsch AG on 15 March 1938 with the help of Richard Hamburger.
After the end of the Second World War, French troops occupied the Plansee factory with the intention of dismantling it as reparations.
Richard Kieffer managed to avert the dismantling, but Plansee technology nevertheless ended up with the French company Ugicarb.
[14] It was continued into the 1980s by materials engineer F. Benezowski[15] and most recently held for the 20th time in Reutte between late May and early June 2022.
They were established in Japan (1978),[21] Germany (1979), the United Kingdom (1980), France (1981), Switzerland (1987), the Netherlands (1992), India (1995), Taiwan (2001), Sweden (2002), Brazil (2002), Hong Kong, China and South Korea (2004), and Italy and Mexico (2007).
[24][25] 2003 saw the acquisition of POLESE Company, Inc. in San Diego, USA (later renamed Plansee Thermal Management Solutions and sold in 2012[26]).
[36] Applications include the lighting and electronics industries, medical and coating technology, power transmission and distribution, and plant and furnace construction.
Plansee was already producing anodes for X-ray tubes in the 1960s,[39] wire heating elements for furnaces, radiation shields and nozzles made of molybdenum.
