100 YEARS OF AUMUND: GENESIS OF AN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BRAND

ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT 100 years of AUMUND

‘Human and machine’ – an impressive size comparison: a SCHADE stacker reclaimer in circular storage.

How an inventor and engineer’s office became an international conveying and storage technology brand

On 3 August 1922, Heinrich Aumund founded the company for AUMUNDPatente MB.H. in Berlin, an invention and engineering office, which laid the cornerstone for the globally operating AUMUND Group of companies, today employing around 500 people of more than 30 nationalities. With approximately 24,000 references in around 150 countries, the AUMUND Group is one of the global players and technology leaders in high-performance conveying and storage of bulk materials. At first, AUMUND established itself as a global brand in the cement industry, and followed on into the most varied of other key bulk materials industries internationally. Today AUMUND Group machines, systems and process technologies are in operation in cement, metallurgy, mining and minerals, lime and gypsum, chemicals — in particular fertilizer, foundries, power plants, agribulk, ports and terminals, as well as in the area of alternative fuels with its current significance in environmental politics and environmental technology. The 100-year history and development of AUMUND spans three generations and is inextricably linked with the business leaders Prof. Dr.-Ing. h.c. Heinrich Aumund, Günter-Claus Aumund and Franz-W. Aumund, who is currently Chairman of the Board.

Franz-W. Aumund embodies the third generation and has been active in the company since 1966. In 1982 he was appointed Managing Director and became Managing Proprietor after the death of his father GünterClaus Aumund on 30th July 1984. Since 2022 Franz-W. Aumund has been Chairman of the Board.

The AUMUND Group today comprises the following companies: v AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH,

Rheinberg, Germany; v SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH,

Gelsenkirchen, Germany; v SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd, Ely,

UK; v TILEMANN GmbH Chains &

Components, Essen, Germany; v AUMUND Group Field Service

GmbH and AUMUND Logistic GmbH, both located in Rheinberg, Germany.

The global conveying and storage business is currently driven internationally by 20 locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia, supported by five Service Centres in Germany, Hong Kong, USA, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, and reinforced by approximately 80 representations and a network of around 100 supervisors and inspectors who advise on and accompany installation, commissioning and on-site inspections with the PREMAS® Preventive Maintenance Service for AUMUND, SCHADE and SAMSON machines as well as for those of other manufacturers.

Effective mid-2022, after 100 years of family management Franz-W. Aumund, who had been Managing Proprietor of the AUMUND Group for 38 years, has handed over his operational activities to the Management of AUMUND Fördertechnik, in the persons of Dr Pietro de Michieli, Reiner Furthmann and Uwe Altena.

Dr Pietro de Michieli has been Managing Director Sales for four years and has now been appointed additionally as CEO of AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH and AUMUND Holding B.V. Reiner Furthmann has been responsible for technology, design and production at AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH for around 20 years, and was appointed Managing Director Technology in March 2018. Uwe Altena has held the function of Commercial Managing Director since mid-2021.

Franz-W. Aumund: “From the early stages my objective was to market AUMUND machines all over the world, which is today the guarantee for the continuity of the AUMUND Group. In 1975 the AUMUND subsidiaries in Brazil and Canada were created, followed by USA in 1980, France in 1991, India in 1996 and Hong Kong in 2005. The AUMUND rep. office for technology, purchasing and production was opened in Beijing, China, in 1994 and this was followed by the incorporation of the AUMUND subsidiary in Beijing in 2006. AUMUND has had its own representations in Russia since 2008 and Dubai since 2010. In 2022 an office was established in Indonesia.’

Dr Pietro de Michieli: “For more than four decades over 85% of AUMUND Group production has been exported. Focusing on the customer has been part of the company’s DNA for a long time. Our global sales headcount is more than 100, and is reinforced by our network of representatives. This gives keeps us close to our customers, enabling us to meet them and speak with them at any time.”

Reiner Furthmann: “With a product depth of more than 70 application-based machine types of the highest quality and reliability, for both horizontal and vertical conveying, and storing and discharge of the most varied of bulk materials, the AUMUND Group has the widest global spread in the conveying and storage technology market. Our motto ‘WE CONVEY QUALITY’ does not only refer to the quality of our products, on which we place the highest demands, but also includes the aspiration to always find the very best technical solution for our customers. The success stories of products from AUMUND started with the development and manufacture of curved steel pan conveyors for underground coal mining from the end of the 1940s, and the further development of pan conveyors and bucket elevators for the cement industry from the early 1960s. Today AUMUND Fördertechnik offers a multitude of high-performance conveyors for continuous vertical and horizontal conveying, which provide the links between the processes of our customers. The portfolio covers not only pan conveyors and bucket elevators but also chain conveyors, stationary material feeders and discharge systems. The technological know-how is reflected in more than 200 national and international patents. The technological and production know-how for the key components of the AUMUND products lies with AUMUND Fördertechnik in Rheinberg, where technology, research, development and design work hand in hand.”

PRODUCT RANGE AND DIVERSIFICATION Products and solutions from the AUMUND Group product companies AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH, SCHADE Lager -

Expansion and strengthening of the product range of the AUMUND Group

The rail wagon tippler developed by AUMUND became an international success after being taken over by SCHADE Lagertechnik in 2010 and enhanced with the know-how of the office in Bristol.

technik GmbH and SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd can be found around the world in all key industries for the conveying and storage of bulk materials.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS PURPOSEFULLY IMPLEMENTED Acquisitions are an important source of richness of ideas and strength of innovation for the AUMUND Group, whilst adhering to the proven AUMUND parameters for takeovers, which Franz-W. Aumund describes as follows: “We are machinery manufacturers and will remain so in future. We analyse owner-operated companies as well as business areas of corporate groups. The products and services must complement our portfolio and it must be possible to leverage sales synergies. There are no geographic boundaries and that will certainly never change. On the contrary, international vision in company acquisitions has become even more significant over the recent decades of AUMUND globalization and will remain relevant in future.”

With the acquisitions of Maschinenfabrik LOUISE GmbH in 1991

and WTW Engineering Maschinen- und Förderanlagen GmbH in 2006, AUMUND expanded its product range and its product know-how in rotary discharge machined and drag chain conveyors. The purchase of the spare parts business for Silo Discharge Systems of Besta & Meyer GmbH in 2014 fitted with this portfolio, and the acquisition of the spare parts business of KoWey GmbH in 2021 was appropriate in connection with bucket elevators.

Diversification was the strategy behind the acquisition of Gustav Schade Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Dortmund, today SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH, and of British company B&W Mechanical Handling Ltd, today SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd, in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Both companies serve market segments adjacent to those of AUMUND. B&W/SAMSON manufactures mobile material feeders, shiploaders and ecological (Eco) Hoppers, which are predominantly used in ports and terminals but also in industrial applications. SCHADE designs and supplies machines such as stackers and reclaimers for bulk materials stockyards and blending beds, which are particularly in demand for handling bulk materials in the most varied of key industries. The rail wagon tipplers which were originally sold by AUMUND were integrated in to the SCHADE portfolio at the beginning of the 2010s. This was not only because SCHADE had a customer base in coal handling operations, but also because Wagon Tippler specialists are employed by SCHADE in the design office in Bristol, UK.

With the acquisition of Th. Tilemann GmbH Gelenkketten- und Räderfabrik, Essen, Germany, in 2016, the AUMUND Group gained an experienced manufacturer of high-quality chains and associated components. In the integration process the company was re-named TILEMANN GmbH, and equipped with the latest production and assembly technology for the fabrication of AUMUND bucket elevator chains, and also conveying chains to supply to manufacturers of stockyard and blending bed equipment and scraper conveyors, including SCHADE.

DIGITALIZATION IS ON THE ADVANCE AT AUMUND

The topic of digitalization is gaining in significance for the future in the AUMUND Group. One example of this is the

PREMAS® 4.0 Predictive Maintenance

Solution. The system for predictive maintenance was developed together with PREMAS AG, Switzerland, and it monitors safe, energy-efficient machinery operation and analyses the condition of the machine with the aid of algorithms. The AUMUND Group is currently offering PREMAS® 4.0 predominantly for belt bucket elevators, various types of chain bucket elevators, pan conveyors, and for the CENTREX® silo discharge system. PREMAS® 4.0 can also be installed on equipment made by other manufacturers, for example as part of a conversion.

KEY INDUSTRIES FOR BULK MATERIALS — THE ‘HOME’ OF AUMUND GROUP PRODUCTS Way over half of the 24,000+ pieces of equipment operate in the cement industry all over world. The logistics of the various raw materials, combustibles and additives play a significant role in the cement production process. Limestone and other raw materials must be kept available in sufficient quantities to keep the production process running continuously, with an additional buffer in case there is an interruption in supply. The careful planning and design of clinker storage and clinker conveying makes a major contribution to the economic viability of the complete plant. This is a discipline in which AUMUND Fördertechnik has more than 60 years of technological expertise. From a broadly positioned range of products, optimized solutions are offered, for example for raw material processing, kiln feed, raw meal conveying to the heat exchanger, reception, storage and conveying of combustibles (both coal and alternative fuels) and hopper discharge. Solutions for clinker loading, clinker dispatch and clinker storage are also part of the portfolio.

In metallurgy, the handling of hot bulk materials such as sinter, pellets, DRI, HBI, fines, coal and coke takes on a special role, and here AUMUND products are operated in conveying, charging, and discharge, if necessary with cooling or conveying under

AUMUND bucket elevator chains manufactured exclusively by TILEMANN, member of the AUMUND Group.

The Ste. Genevieve cement plant in Missouri, USA, which is considered to be one of the largest of its kind in the world, is equipped with a wide range of AUMUND products.

inert gas. A partner to the iron and steel industry since the 1960s, AUMUND offers solutions as integrated process elements which support customers’ production flows. This is shown as an example in connection with the development of CO2reduced production processes. Since the beginning of the 2000s direct reduction has proved its worth as a largely available alternative to the classic blast furnace process, where sinter and coke are used as charge. Direct reduction using natural gas produces pig iron from iron ore pellets. Depending on the technology, the sponge iron products are either DRI or HBI. For the handling of these products, i.e. the cooling and charging in the manufacturing process, the operators of direct reduction plants can take advantage of very innovative solutions.

In the direct reduction sector AUMUND co-operates with MIDREX, USA, and with the plant construction company for steelworks technology, PRIMETALS, Austria.

A hot material conveyor feeds the material continuously from the direct reduction plant straight into an EAF (electric arc furnace). AUMUND hot DRI charging transports hot DRI on an AUMUND bucket apron conveyor under heat-insulated and inert, non-oxidizing conditions from the MIDREX direct reduction shaft furnace straight into the EAF in the steel plant. The main advantages of hot charging of DRI into the EAF are reduced energy consumption and shortened smelting cycle times.

For the conveying and cooling of HBI, hot briquetted sponge iron, the patented AUMUND mist cooling process comes into its own. The HBI is sprayed with water mist on an AUMUND flat plate conveyor and gently cooled down, for example from 800°C to 100°C, in a patented process which does not damage the product (HBI slow cooling).

Careful conveying of castings is often crucial for the quality of the parts. Therefore, it is particularly important to select the correct conveyor for the purpose. AUMUND offers conveying technology for the complete process chain in foundries which manufacture on the basis of wet moulding. These include conveyors for degating, sorting and cleaning of castings, cooling conveyors for transporting and cooling of hot castings, bucket elevators for vertical conveying and conveyors for feeding furnaces with scrap metal.

AUMUND products also have a long tradition in the mining and minerals sector, with optimized solutions for every process stage for conveying, storage and loading of often abrasive and sticky bulk materials. AUMUND has experience with the handling of the most varied of materials such as basalt, bauxite, dolomite, ores, fly ash, urea, potash, limestone, clay, petcoke, phosphate, pozzolan, salt, sand, sulphur, and zinc oxide. The application and the characteristics of the materials determine the conveyor. Precise planning is of the utmost importance because this is the basis for the economic success of the plant.

For many years AUMUND has been supplying equipment for conveying and storage of raw materials with the most

Rheinberg: an AUMUND pan conveyor is ready for operation at the Hawle Guss foundry in Fürstenwalde, Germany.

In the foreground Bahrain Steel Company with the two AUMUND pan conveyors type KZB for transportation of iron ore pellets at a capacity of 1,410tph per conveyor. In the background the steelworks SULB Bahrain with a MIDREX direct reduction plant and AUMUND hot DRI charging.

varied of characteristics for operation in the chemicals industry. Machines are matched precisely to the particular stage of the production process and to the site where they will operate. If required for the application for example, AUMUND can supply bucket elevators in a stainless steel version. AUMUND is particularly in demand in the widely varying processes and production technologies of the fertilizer industry, where products are in operation in the areas of material extraction and processing, raw material and additive conveying, loading and handling.

AUMUND equipment is also part of the machinery in power plants for example for reception of coal, calorific domestic waste (RDF), biomass or limestone in various types of firing plant whether it be grate firing, pulverized coal firing or fluidized bed

combustion, as well as for export of materials such as gypsum, ash, sludge and dust.

For more than 60 years AUMUND has been supplying bucket elevators for the agribulk industry. These were specially developed to convey cereals and similar agricultural bulk materials. More recently, renowned sugar producers have been placing their trust in AUMUND conveying technology, such as specially designed screw dischargers for residue-free emptying of white sugar silos. Any machinery parts which come into contact with the sugar, such as the screw and the discharge chute are supplied in stainless steel.

Energy-intensive sectors such as the cement and steel industries, and power plants, are being called upon to adopt climate-friendly processes, and they are seeking cost-effective solutions in order to achieve this. Such solutions are available from the recently created Alternative Fuels division of AUMUND Fördertechnik. The AUMUND Fuel Mill, AU-MILL® for short, prepares calorific plastic waste, known as RDF (refuse derived fuel) to pass on for use as an alternative fuel in place of coal, oil or gas, for example in the rotary kiln in a cement plant.

The AUMUND range of products for conveying alternative fuels includes solutions such as the trailer docking station, the walking floor, the screw discharger, and a specially modified drag chain conveyor. The alternative fuels handled are categorized into two groups. The first of these is CO2-neutral biomass such as wood chips, wood pellets,

AUMUND arched plate conveyors, also in heavy-duty design, are used to transport all kinds of minerals.

AUMUND can react to the requirements of the fertilizer industry by supplying bucket elevators in stainless steel.

A specially designed discharge system was supplied for the Al Khaleej Sugar Group plant in Dubai for complete emptying of a white sugar silo with a diameter of almost 60m. The photo shows the 27m-long screw discharger which was supplied in three parts ready to assemble in Dubai.

sunflower seeds, coconut shells, soiled straw and hay as well as sewage sludge. The second large group comprises materials such as plastic, used tyres, refuse from the medical sector and textile manufacture, shredded paper and animal meal.

WHEREVER MOBILITY AND SPEEDINESS ARE REQUIRED For import and export of material the AUMUND Group offers a very wide spectrum of machines and equipment in conveying and storage technology. For ports and terminals the mobile (i.e. driven) shiploading and unloading systems such as shiploaders, Eco Hoppers, and the Samson® material feeder are particularly attractive.

SAMSON Materials Handling has developed a range of shiploading and

unloading equipment, adapted to the handling of dry bulk materials, which offers flexibility both for operators of existing berths and for high-performance loading. Mobile shiploaders, material feeders and also the STORMAJOR® can be operated on any quay independently of each other or parked out of the way until they are required for the next job. The mobile technology is configured by SAMSON to create a system which matches precisely the requirements of the individual port or terminal.

SERVICE IS THE KEY TO CUSTOMER PROXIMITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION The AUMUND Group offers extensive

after-sales and customer support

services all over the world, ranging from consulting to upkeep, preventative and predictive maintenance (PREMAS® and

Japan: AUMUND drag chain conveyor type LOUISE for conveying alternative fuels at the Ofunato power plant of Taiheiyo Cement in Iwate Prefecture.

With the SAMSON STORMAJOR® mobile shiploading is possible even under the tightest of conditions. PREMAS® 4.0), repairs and spare parts, to the training of customers’ maintenance personnel. AUMUND Group Field Service GmbH, which was incorporated in 2017, ensures a globally standardized commitment to quality in installation and commissioning of AUMUND, SCHADE and SAMSON machines, and also of equipment manufactured outside the Group, with its international network of around 100 supervisors and inspectors.

Provision of high-performance service was also the basis for the incorporation in 2007 of AUMUND Logistic GmbH as an autonomous company. The focus of its activities is worldwide dispatch of machines and machinery parts by sea freight, air freight and land transportation for AUMUND, SCHADE, SAMSON and TILEMANN as well as for the overseas

One-stop shops: The international logistics for original spare and wear parts is decentralized; five AUMUND Service Centres enable rapid supply to customers.

AUMUND companies. Not only spare parts packages and products manufactured by AUMUND are forwarded, but collections are also organized of machines and parts from other locations which need to be transported to a customer or installation site elsewhere.

‘WE CONVEY A GREENER FUTURE’ “The linking of ecological aspects and business considerations, for the benefit both of our customers and of the AUMUND Group itself, has defined our thinking and actions for decades, in fact even before concepts such as conservation, sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions became important for so many companies all over the world. In this the AUMUND Group is one of the pioneers in the bulk materials conveying and storing sector,” says Franz-W. Aumund.

“WE CONVEY A GREENER FUTURE” applies to the two fields of activity where the AUMUND Group unites ecology and business: 1. The product companies AUMUND,

SCHADE and SAMSON support customers on their journeys to environmentally conscious production processes, and activities which comply with environmental legislation. 2. The AUMUND Group takes its responsibility for conservation of resources and protection of the environment seriously on its own sites as well. As an example, no fossil fuels are utilized in machinery manufacture, and additional measures are consistently being undertaken to save energy.

The cement industry, the steel industry, and power plants predominantly use fossil fuels for their processes currently, which release climate-damaging CO2. At the same time these industries must fulfil more and more national and international legal require ments to reduce their CO2 emissions.

Alternative fuels, which can be prepared and transported with AUMUND solutions

play a significant role in achieving these targets.

As a technology leader in hot material conveying, and in the cooling of the direct reduction products, DRI and HBI, AUMUND conveyors contribute to the benefit of customers to the reduction of

CO2 emissions in the iron and steel

industry. This AUMUND know-how from the metallurgical process also works to the advantage of the cement industry, which is working on the development of LC3 cement. The blending in of calcinated clay to this new cement type means LC3 produces emissions of up to 40% less carbon dioxide. With cooling conveyors from AUMUND the burnt, calcinated clay can be cooled down from 800°C to 100°C, at which point it can be mixed with the clinker and milled to become LC3 cement. Cooling takes place in an inert atmosphere which can be created with nitrogen from an air separation unit.

For reduction of dust emissions, and for other reasons of environmental safety, SCHADE offers covered storage systems for bulk materials volumes of 800,000 tonnes or 1,000,000m3 even on a small surface area. Stockpiling is carried out by mobile tripper cars installed beneath the roof of the storage building, and the pile is reclaimed by full-portal or semi-portal reclaimers. Depending on customer requirements or official regulations, the equipment can be adapted to the height of the storage building using a design incorporating two booms on the Reclaimer. In an indoor circular storage facility, storage capacities of 360,000 tonnes are achievable.

The SAMSON Eco Hopper fulfils strict standards for the reduction of dust emissions. The Eco Hopper is used for importing bulk materials in ports and terminals, and has a comprehensive range of dust protection features, including a system which reduces the impact of sidewinds, the Flex-Flap dust sealing system and a mechanically driven sliding roof.

At its headquarters in Rheinberg AUMUND has been acting with environmental responsibility for many years. The office and production facilities are fitted out with energy-optimized features, such as thermal insulation, energysaving LED lighting, and ventilators which prevent heat rising to areas where it would be wasted, such as up to the factory roof.

The production facilities do not generate CO2, because AUMUND does not use gas. Back in 2010 AUMUND invested several million Euros in a sustainable environmental protection measure, installing solar panels on the roofs of nine of its production halls, which makes AUMUND a generator of on average around 700,000kWh annually, far more electricity than is required for its own purposes.

At TILEMANN in Essen, environmental awareness also prevails. By installing ceiling ventilators in the works halls gas consumption was reduced by 33%. Also the lighting was converted to LED. Cooling fluids previously utilized in fabrication were replaced with more up-to-date and ecological alternatives. The abrasives used are also environmentally friendly and do not pose a health hazard for the employees, and only re-useable packaging is used by TILEMANN.

FIT FOR THE FUTURE Franz-W. Aumund: “I am convinced that we are well-positioned now and for the future and that we will always have the right ideas to enable us to recognize and fulfil the requirements of our customers. In this connection innovation and investment are of the utmost importance to me. They secure the future of the individual companies, and with them the future of our Group. We have an investment agenda which takes into consideration markets, manufacturing locations, ideas, innovations, employees and much more. This is why we do not only concentrate on activities in our familiar key industries, but we also open up new futureorientated areas such as alternative fuels. ‘Fit for the future’ also means for the AUMUND Group that it should continue to develop in a healthy way. This means with a combination of

Green electricity: 3,358 solar panels produce energy at AUMUND. Of the total roof surface area of approximately 18,000m², around 5,550m² is used for solar panels.

YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW:

THREE GENERATIONS, THREE EMPHASES What is special about this corporate development is the high degree of continuity with which AUMUND, through Heinrich Aumund (1873–1959), GünterClaus Aumund (1912–1984) and Franz-W. Aumund (b. 1944) has written company history and continues to do so.

The cornerstone for success was laid by Prof. Heinrich Aumund in 1922 when he founded the company for AUMUNDPatente MB.H, which dealt with the exploitation, monitoring and marketing of existing and future national and international AUMUND patents. One of these was the patent registered to Heinrich Aumund in 1929 for the rail wagon tippler for unloading coal. Back in 1920, Heinrich Aumund had designed a short plate conveyor for underground mining, the first conveyor fabricated from steel and which could be guided around bends.

In 1937 AUMUND-Patente MB.H., Berlin, was re-named AUMUND Fördererbau GmbH, and from 1945 was located near Bremen. The new name signified a decisive new business direction. The emphasis from now on was on development, design and construction of conveying equipment. The focus was on continuous conveyors, and the company developed large metallic conveyors which become an AUMUND trademark. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, AUMUND innovations such as the pan conveyor and the pivoting pan conveyor made a ground-breaking impact on the market.

The curved and inclining AUMUND pan conveyor, which was patented in 1948, revolutionized underground conveying in coal mining. In the following years Heinrich Aumund worked, supported by his son Günter-Claus Aumund, from the new premises in Duisburg-Homberg in close proximity to the coalmining and steel industries in the Ruhr area, primarily on improvements and new inventions of conveying equipment for mining. Every year new patents were registered domestically and abroad.

Günter-Claus Aumund not only successfully continued the business in his period of guidance of over 30 years, but also developed it further, not only in new equipment, but AUMUND increasingly worked on spare parts and maintenance and repair of conveyors, developing its own customer service department alongside development and design. Production was carried out only about 20km away from Duisburg-Homberg, in Rheinberg. In November 1955 Günter-Claus Aumund bought the first parcels of land amounting to 4,800m² at auction. From these beginnings today’s AUMUND Industrial Park was born, and now comprises 73,000m² of infrastructure including administration and production buildings and storage yards.

For the assembly of the rail wagon tipplers, Günter-Claus Aumund had his engineers develop a mobile portal crane in 1957. The portal crane prototypes were followed by more than 6,000 AUMUND cranes with large spans and impressive load capacities, supplied all over the world. Business with portal cranes, bridge cranes and container cranes was booming for a long time, resulting in AUMUND becoming a crane specialist. However, the reunification of Germany and the opening up of Eastern Europe led to ruinous price pressure in the crane sector in the early 1990s. At the end of 1994 AUMUND withdrew from the crane business.

After AUMUND products had originally been manufactured almost exclusively for the German market, Franz-W. Aumund worked on successively increasing the percentage of equipment exported. The foresightedness of positioning the AUMUND Group internationally and not being dependent on one market or one industry has been shown in particular in times of economic difficulty. “The international locations guarantee the greatest possible proximity to customers and enable the establishment of a longstanding mutual trust which cannot be shaken even by a crisis, such as most recently the coronavirus pandemic, which we approached with the required caution and necessary measures,” says the globalizer, world traveller and visionary, Franz-W. Aumund.

SOCIAL ISSUES AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT: A SUBJECT CLOSE TO THE HEART OVER THREE GENERATIONS OF AUMUND Social commitment begins in 1930 with the support of needy students by Heinrich Aumund, and continues from the 1970s when the centre for vocational training and retraining is initiated by Günter-Claus Aumund in Rheinberg. It is expanded intensively in the era of Franz-W. Aumund, among other things by the privately founded Franz-W. Aumund-Stiftung in 2006, and with the philanthropic activities of the AUMUND companies from 2007, without losing sight of the origins. For

“I will always succeed, as long as I believe in my own ability. But if I have doubts, success will be a distant dream.” This was the favourite saying of company founder, inventor and university professor, Heinrich Aumund (1873–1959).

Businessman and leader Günter-Claus Aumund led AUMUND Fördererbau GmbH, later AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH, and the beginnings of the AUMUND Group, as Managing Proprietor from 1952 to 1984.

Franz-W. Aumund – globalizer, world traveller and visionary.

example, since 2009 more than 50 mechanical engineering and business engineering students have been supported by the scholarship programme initiated between Franz-W. Aumund and Prof. Detlev Borstell from Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. The close connection to partner universities in Germany which has existed since 2011, annual scholarship students and alumni meetings in Rheinberg, and the offer of gaining experience in the overseas AUMUND subsidiaries, make the scholarship award from AUMUND a very desirable sponsorship programme.

In 2013, Franz-W. Aumund was appointed Honorary Senator of Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, as his grandfather Heinrich Aumund had in his time been appointed Honorary Senator of the Gdansk University of Technology and of the Technical University of Berlin.

The year 2019 was marked by the establishment of the second private foundation by Franz-W. Aumund, the Aumund Foundation, which is a strategic expansion and deals in particular with supporting humanitarian and medical projects overseas.

One hundred years after the founding of the company, a circle was closed in April 2022 with the establishment of the Prof. Heinrich Aumund Endowed Chair at HTW Berlin (Berlin University of Applied Sciences) with which Franz-W. Aumund has erected an ideological monument to his grandfather.

ABOUT THE AUMUND GROUP The AUMUND Group is active worldwide. The conveying and storage specialist has special expertise at its disposal when dealing with bulk materials. With their high degree of individuality, both its technically sophisticated as well as innovative products have contributed to the AUMUND Group today being a market leader in many areas of conveying and storage technology. The manufacturing companies AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany), SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH (Gelsenkirchen, Germany), SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd (Ely, Great Britain), TILEMANN GmbH Chains & Components (Essen, Germany) as well as AUMUND Group Field Service GmbH and AUMUND Logistic GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany) are consolidated under the umbrella of the AUMUND Group. The global conveying and storage technology business is spearheaded through a total of 20 locations in Asia, Europe, North and South America and a total of five warehouses in Germany, USA, Brazil, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

Franz-W. Aumund receives the honour for financial and idealistic support of students at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences.

Franz-W. Aumund in animated conversation with two students at The Sagar School in India. The school belongs to the international ‘Round Square’ Network. The Aumund Foundation awards scholarships to children from underprivileged families in order to enable young people to visit a ‘Round Square’ School.

“I feel very honoured to be able to carry on the scientific and educational work of Prof. Dr.-Ing. h.c. Heinrich Aumund here in Berlin and I would like to thank the Franz-W. Aumund-Stiftung and HTW Berlin for your confidence, ” says Prof. Dr. Rico Meier (right), with HTW President Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Busch. DCi