EPC Group is a German engineering and construction company. It builds large industrial plants and infrastructure projects around the world. The history of the family business goes back to the 19th century and in the present form, it exists since 1994. The headquarters of the EPC Group are located in Arnstadt , Thuringia . 2014, the EPC Group was named one of the top 100 innovators of the German Mittelstand . In November 2017, the German Business Magazine WirtschaftsWoche honored the subsidiary company EPC Engineering & Technologies GmbH (ranked at position 28 among the 50 most innovative small and medium-sized companies in Germany) as the most innovative company in the Eastern part of Germany.
16-591: The roots of the EPC Group go back to 1873, when August Oskar Henkel registered business to the princedom of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . The purpose of the company was agricultural machinery engineering. Until 1933, the Henkel family successfully produced several types of machines. After World War II , the company was discontinued, but the owners kept working as engineers. After the German reunification , Peter Henkel founded
32-607: Is one of the largest revamp projects in the world. Similar facilities for the production of Polycarbonate have been built in China , with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons per year. These projects were recognized as important for both the company and the whole industry. In 2009, the EPC Group acquired the CRYOTEC Anlagenbau GmbH , a cryogenic plant construction company in Wurzen , Saxony , with roots going back to
48-709: The EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH as a limited liability company ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) in 1993. The company began trading in 1994. The company was a spin-off of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza, a former publicly owned operation ( Volkseigener Betrieb ) in East Germany . In the early days of the EPC Group, the company recruited many employees of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza, particularly chemists and engineers . Some of them have worked for
64-656: The EPC Holding GmbH , which is the holding company of the EPC Group, are in Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle , where the machinery factory of August Oskar Henkel was located. The EPC Group and all of its subsidiaries have locations in Alzenau , Arnstadt , Gera , Jena , Leuna , Rudolstadt as well as Wurzen . Another office in the Thuringian state capital of Erfurt is being planned. Since 2000,
80-600: The EPC Technology GmbH , as well as other companies, are subsidiaries of the EPC Holding GmbH , doing business as EPC Group. Ten years after its foundation, the EPC Group and all of its subsidiaries had about 150 employees. In the following years, exports continuously increased, especially to the Arab world , Asia and Russia. For example, the EPC Group built a plant for plastic granulates in Saudi Arabia , which
96-667: The German Confederation in 1815. In 1905 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had an area of 940 km (360 sq mi) and a population of 97,000. On 23 November 1918, during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the fall of all the German monarchies , Prince Günther Victor was the last to abdicate. The former principality became a "Free State" in 1919 and joined the Weimar Republic as a constituent state. In 1920, it joined with other small states in
112-593: The Holy Roman Empire . Count Albert Anton (1662–1710) was elevated to the rank of a prince by Emperor Leopold I ; it was however his son Louis Frederick I (1710–1718) who first bore the princely title, whereby Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1711 became a principality under the same entity. It withstood mediatisation and after the empire's dissolution joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807 and
128-676: The II. DDR-Liga . The then-third-highest division of the GDR proved to be too strong for the East Thuringians, so after only one season Einheit and Motor Gotha were relegated back to the Bezirksliga. In the Bezirksliga, Einheit acted solely at the local level in the Gera district and was used for the training of young players of FC Carl Zeiss Jena . Between rises and drops from and to
144-600: The Bezirksklasse in the next decades, Einheit regained its resurgence in the Bezirksliga Gera. Its progress was stalled by city rivals Chemie Schwarza who repeatedly managed to rise to the DDR-Liga . After German reunification in 1990, Einheit merged with the football section of Chemie Schwarza and was renamed FC Rudolstadt/Schwarza . In 1996, the two clubs de-merged. With Rudolstadt regaining
160-526: The EPC Group is a member of the Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft e.V. (BVMW), a well-known German association for small and medium-sized enterprises . The EPC Group continually supports regional sports teams, for example the football club FC Einheit Rudolstadt . Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia , Germany , with its capital at Rudolstadt . Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
176-571: The area to form the new state of Thuringia . FC Einheit Rudolstadt FC Einheit Rudolstadt is a German football club from Rudolstadt in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt , Thuringia . The ground of the club is called Städtisches Stadion im Heinepark . They play in the NOFV-Oberliga Süd . FC Einheit Rudolstadt was founded on 11 November 1950 as BSG Einheit Rudolstadt . In 1957, Rudolstadt, together with Stahl Silbitz and Chemie Elsterberg , succeeded in promotion to
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#1732780591042192-475: The engineering business unit of the Thüringer Faser AG , one of the successor companies of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza. The company's activities were crucial for the development of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza to a modern industrial park for industries of all kind. 1995, Peter Henkel founded a second company named EPC Technology GmbH . Today, both the EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH and
208-464: The supervision of the commissioning and operation of industrial plants are an important part of the business. Most of the revenues come from projects in foreign countries. The shareholders of the EPC Group are Jens, Ulf, Nadine and Tim Henkel, the second generation of their family to run the company. Since 2021, the managing board was expanded with Karol Kerrane and Franz-Josef Willems, stepping into their roles as managing directors. [3] The headquarters of
224-425: The year 1879. They have terminated the cooperation in the year 2023. Today, the companies HI Bauprojekt GmbH and RMN Ingenieure GmbH are also part of the EPC Group. The EPC Group builds turnkey facilities for chemicals , polymers and fibers , pharma and fine chemicals , renewable energies , technical gases and biotechnologies , as well as infrastructure projects. In addition to the design and construction,
240-500: Was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty lands. Since the 11th century, the ancestral seat of the comital family had been at Schwarzburg Castle, though after 1340, for most of its existence as a polity had the capital at the larger town of Rudolstadt. In 1583 Count Günther XLI of Schwarzburg, the eldest son of Günther XL the Rich and ruler over the united Schwarzburg lands, had died without issue. He
256-419: Was succeeded by his younger brothers, whereby Albert VII received the territory around Rudolstadt. After their brother William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen had died in 1597, the surviving brothers Albert VII and John Günther I established the two counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm . Albert's descendants ruled as sovereign counts of
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