EPC Group

The roots of the EPC Group go back to 1873,{{cite news | language = de | title = Unternehmer zu Gast bei Firma EPC in Rudolstadt | newspaper = Ostthüringer Zeitung | date = March 12, 2015 | page = 13}} when August Oskar Henkel registered business to the princedom of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.{{cite web | title = Turnkey Plant Construction & Engineering Services | publisher = EPC Group | work = Company Presentation | pages = 6–9 | format = PDF | url = http://www.epc.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/EPC_Imagebroschuere_english_2015.pdf | date = April 8, 2015 | access-date = June 1, 2016}} 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 the EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH as a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) in 1993.{{cite web | url = https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ | title = EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH | website = Company Register | publisher = Bundesanzeiger | access-date = June 1, 2016 | date = May 3, 1993 | quote = Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 203182}} 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.{{cite news | language = de | title = Gubens Industriegebiet soll sein Gesicht verändern | newspaper = Lausitzer Rundschau | date = November 30, 2000}} Some of them have worked for the engineering business unit of the Thüringer Faser AG, one of the successor companies of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza.{{cite news | first = Hanno| last = Müller | title = Verkauft an windige Investoren aus Indien | language = de | newspaper = Ostthüringer Zeitung | date = July 19, 2012 | page = 3}}

The company's activities were crucial for the development of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza to a modern industrial park for industries of all kind.{{cite news | title = Wo kaum ein Stein auf dem anderen blieb | language = de | newspaper = Lausitzer Rundschau | date = September 27, 2001}} 1995, Peter Henkel founded a second company named EPC Technology GmbH.{{cite web | url = https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ | title = EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH | website = Company Register | publisher = Bundesanzeiger | access-date = June 1, 2016 | date = June 12, 1995 | quote = Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 205326}} Today, both the EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH and the EPC Technology GmbH, as well as other companies, are subsidiaries of the EPC Holding GmbH, doing business as EPC Group.{{cite magazine | language = de | title = Ganzheitliche Lösungen im Anlagenbau | magazine = Process | volume = 872 | date = May 12, 2009 | page = 33}} 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.{{cite news | title = Geplant, betreut, überwacht | language = de | newspaper = Lausitzer Rundschau | date = June 1, 2005 | url = http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/spree-neisse/guben/Geplant-betreut-ueberwacht;art1051,922753 | access-date = June 1, 2016}} For example, the EPC Group built a plant for plastic granulates in Saudi Arabia,{{cite news | language = de | title = Probebetrieb in Saudi-Arabien | newspaper = Thüringer Allgemeine | date = April 8, 2009 | page = 6}} which is one of the largest revamp projects in the world.{{cite news | title = Richtung Mekka | language = de | newspaper = Thüringer Allgemeine | date = April 8, 2009 | author = Wolf-Dieter Bose}} Similar facilities for the production of Polycarbonate have been built in China, with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons per year.{{cite news | language = de | title = Chinesische Unternehmen schaffen Arbeitsplätze in Thüringen | first = Bernd| last = Jentsch | newspaper = Thüringer Allgemeine | date = May 28, 2013 | page = 3}} These projects were recognized as important for both the company and the whole industry.{{cite news | title = Rudolstädter machen mit Anlage in Fernost einen großen Schritt | first = Dieter| last = Lücke | newspaper = Thüringische Landeszeitung | date = June 17, 2015 | page = 4 | language = de | url = http://www.tlz.de/web/zgt/wirtschaft/detail/-/specific/Rudolstaedter-machen-mit-Anlage-in-Fernost-einen-grossen-Schritt-993575291 | access-date = June 11, 2016}} In 2009, the EPC Group acquired the CRYOTEC Anlagenbau GmbH, a cryogenic plant construction company in Wurzen, Saxony, with roots going back to the year 1879.{{cite news | title = Stadtrat diskutiert über Cryotec – Cryotec seit 1879 in Wurzen | newspaper = Leipziger Volkszeitung | language = de | date = November 8, 2011 | page = 16}} 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, 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.{{cite news | language = de | title = 90 Prozent der Arbeit finden im Ausland statt | first = Florian| last = Girwert | newspaper = Thüringische Landeszeitung | date = November 8, 2014 | page = 5}} 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.[https://thueringer-bogen.de/erweiterung-der-geschaeftsleitung-der-epc-engineering-technologies-gmbh/] The headquarters of the EPC Holding GmbH, which is the holding company of the EPC Group, are in Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle,{{cite web | url = https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ | title = EPC Holding GmbH | website = Company Register | publisher = Bundesanzeiger | access-date = June 1, 2016 | date = May 3, 1993 | quote = Amtsgericht Jena, HRB 209586}} 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Ueber-300-neue-Wohnungen-und-ein-Buerogebaeude-entstehen-auf-der-Lingel-Flaeche-2073335523 | title = Über 300 neue Wohnungen und ein Bürogebäude entstehen auf der Lingel-Fläche in Erfurt | website = Thüringer Allgemeine | date = April 21, 2016 | access-date = June 11, 2016 | language = de}}

Since 2000, the EPC Group is a member of the Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft e.V. (BVMW),{{cite news | title = EPC Rudolstadt Mitglied im BVMW | date = September 9, 2000 | language = de | newspaper = Ostthüringer Zeitung}} a well-known German association for small and medium-sized enterprises.{{cite web | title = Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft | url = http://www.bvmw.de/service/sprachen/gb.html | access-date = June 1, 2016}} The EPC Group continually supports regional sports teams, for example the football club FC Einheit Rudolstadt.{{cite news | language = de | title = Vereinsgeschichte in über 200 Programmheften | newspaper = Ostthüringer Zeitung | date = August 14, 2003 | first = Hartmut| last = Gerlach}}{{cite news | language = de | title = Einheit Rudolstadt mit kluger Taktik | newspaper = Ostthüringer Zeitung | date = October 18, 2004 | first = Hartmut| last = Gerlach}}

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