Russian Federation
The first contacts between ThyssenKrupp and Russia go back to 1818 when the Russian finance ministry ordered eight cast steel coining dies from Krupp. The first major order was in 1848 for a complete rolling mill for a spoon factory in Petersburg. In 1878, Henschel supplied the first locomotives to Russia.
After the First World War, freight train locomotives were one of the main products supplied to Russia from 1920. The first contacts after the Second World War were made by Berthold Beitz. In the following decades, lively economic contacts developed. Among other things, the Group supplied numerous complete chemical plants, including several DMT plants for transforming petroleum products into synthetic fibers. In 1970, a consortium of Mannesmann Export/Thyssen Stahlunion-Export supplied 1.2 million tons of large-diameter pipe for a natural gas pipeline in the then USSR.
Today, Russia is still one of our most important partner countries in Central and Eastern Europe, with sales focusing on materials. ThyssenKrupp has a Group Representative Office in Moscow with sales and sourcing employees from our 5 segments.
The Technologies, Elevator and Services segments have local companies in Russia employing around 740 people. The largest ThyssenKrupp employer in Russia is the engineering company OAO Uhde in Dzershinsk with 310 employees. It was acquired by Uhde GmbH (Technologies segment) in 1994 as part of a privatization program. OAO Uhde supports the parent company in the detail engineering and brings Uhde's contracting competency to international investors in Russia as well as to Russian customers. The main fields of activity are oil and gas, refinery equipment, organic intermediates and polymers as well as high-tech solutions in industrial plant construction and infrastructure.
All figures relate to to the 2006/2007 fiscal year, Annual Report, as of September 30, 2007.
For further information please contact our Group Representatives for Russia:
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| ThyssenKrupp AG, Representative Office Russian Federation |
Josef Marous ThyssenKrupp AG, Representative Office Russian Federation International Trade Center 12. Floor, Office 1209 Krasnopresnenskaja nab. 12 123610 Moscow - Russia Phone: +7-495/258 1143 Fax: +7-495/258 1140 moscow@thyssenkrupp.ru |