Swissmetal

The group Swissmetal is a group of companies specialized in the development, manufacture and the product sales semi-finished out of copper and copper alloys, in particular brass mainly intended for the electronics industry, automobile, office automation and clock making, like with aviation and telecommunications.

Companies

Swissmetal Boillat with Reconvilier (Swiss)
Swissmetal-Dornach with Dornach (Swiss)
Swissmetal-Deutschland with Deisslingen-Lauffen (Germany)
Swissmetal-Italia with Milan (Italy)
Busch-Jaeger Metallwerke GMBH
Services of sale to Olten
Opinion Industrial Products with the E. - U.

Products

Alloys

Coppers pure and slightly allied
Brasses with or without lead (copper-zinc)
special Brasses
Copper nickel zinc alloys (copper-zinc-nickel)
Bronzes (copper-tin)
Additive Aluminum bronze
of welding and brazing
highly resistant Alloys (Osprey)

Forms and dimensions

Wire of diameters of 0,5 mm to 8 mms
round Bars in diameters from 1.0 to 200 mm
hollow Bars and tubes of an external diameter of 15 mm to 150 mm
Sections full with a circle circumscribed with 1.5 mm to 200 mm
Sections full with a circle circumscribed with 10 mm to 140 mm
Ribbons a 0.2 mm thickness to 5.0 mm and a width of 10 mm to 140 mm

History

1855 Creation of the flatting mill with Bueche foundry, Boillat & Co with Reconvilier
1895 Creation of Schweizerische Metallwerke AG Dornach. Their market is platinums of watches
Boillat concentrates on the small ones and average diameters. Boillat has especially the market of the clock industry.
Dornach concentrates on the means and large diameters
After the 2nd world war, Boillat collects also the markets of the points of ball point pens.
In 1970, Boillat comes on the market from electronics (contacts)
Dornach delivers to the industry of the ammunition, the boxes of watches and the coins.
Since the years 1950, the 2 companies produce not only brass but other alloys such as slightly combined copper, the copper nickel zinc alloy and bronze.
Since 1917, the shareholders of Boillat were clock making manufacturers, industrialists of the machines and cable. At Dornach, same cable-makings and banks were the principal shareholders since 1934.
1986, foundation of group UMS Iron-foundries Swiss S.A. by Werner K. Rey (Omni Holding SA) by annexing there its factory Selve Thoune
1989, creation of UMS Swiss Metal Works Holding

the owners are Cable-makings of Cossonay (SACT), the Workshops of mechanical engineering of Vevey (ACMV) and the Company of Swiss bank.

1990, acquisition of Busch-Jaeger Metallwerke GMBH
1990, closing of Selve
the shareholders are the Company of Swiss bank (later built-in UBS), Arlington Capital Ltd Management. (GB), Alcatel (the successor of Cossonay). Thereafter Alcatel will be replaced by Relag AG and OZ Bankers
2002, dismissal of 200 employees out of the 3 sites and introduction of the short-time working, following a fall of the deliveries.
2003, the German company Busch-Jaeger is declared insolvent
since 2003, starting of a program of restucturation
In summer 2004, a moratorium is signed with the banks and the group is refinanced.
November 16th, 2004, strike 10 days at Boillat following the dismissal of the director, Patrick Rebstein
2004, the services of sale are concentrated in Olten
November 8th, 2005, the direction states that the department foundry will be moved in Dornach and that Boillat will become a wire production center and bars of high-quality.
At the beginning of January, a report/ratio of the OFS mentions a contamination of the site of Dornach
January 25th, 2006, beginning of the strike at Boillat
February 10th, 2006, Rolf Bloch, former owner of Camille Bloch is named mediator by the federal adviser Joseph Deiss
February 9th, 2006, during the strike the group repurchases its old factory " Busch-Jaeger" (see a 1990 and 2003) which became one of its main competitors
April 8th, 2006, demonstration of support with the fired employees of Boillat (Reconvilier) joins together nearly 5000 people on the federal Place with Bern
April 27th, 2006: Swissmetal announces to put an end to the process of mediation; the same day, the group carries out the acquisition of its American partner of distribution, Avis Industrial Products.

External bonds

Site of the group

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