One of Germany’s leading companies in industrial piping and plant engineering, Weber-Guppe, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
The Weber Group, headquartered in Pulheim near Cologne, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Birthday. Weber is a market leader in industrial piping and plant engineering for the process industry in Germany. Today, the family business is managed by Dierk and Benjamin Weber in the third and fourth generation.
Founded in 1922 in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, as “Mitteldeutsche Industrie-Werke GmbH”, the Weber family has developed its company over the last 100 years into a group with twelve operating companies, more than 60 locations and currently more than 3,000 employees. According to Weber, this makes it one of the five largest industrial service providers in Germany.
In addition to industrial piping and plant construction, Weber Unternehmensgruppe GmbH & Co. KG offers maintenance services, engineering, energy service, core technology and scaffolding from a single source. Handling large projects or major shutdowns are among their particular strengths. Just like their large number of highly qualified employees. Long-standing customers include all renowned suppliers in the process industry, such as BASF, Basell, Bayer, Covestro, Evonik and many more.
The history of the Weber Group of Companies traces the development from an extended workbench to a reliable technology partner that also develops technical solutions in its fields of work at eye level with its major customers. One of the most important milestones in the company’s history was its return to its founding location in Merseburg after German reunification. This is also the reason why the Weber family celebrated the 100th anniversary. The company is celebrating its 50th birthday with two major employee parties – in Cologne and in Merseburg.