High-pressure ；technologies ；from ；Hagen ；for ；the ；world ；– ；for ；80 ；years ；now
Uhde High Pressure Technologies is a well-established company with a long tradition – and in July 2010 we celebrate our 80th anniversary!
It all started at a coal mine in Herne in the Ruhr Valley where Friedrich Uhde GmbH erected its first plant for ammonia synthesis.The incidental coke oven gas was meant to serve as process gas. First of all, Mr. Uhde expanded a workshop on the site of a coal mine in Herne for the fabrication of the required high-pressure equipment. By entry in the commercial register of Dortmund on July 22, 1930 the workshop evolved into the company Hochdruck-Apparatebau GmbH which soon moved its headquarters to Hagen on the outskirts of the Ruhr Valley.
Within only a few years Uhde Hochdruck-Apparatebau was able to make a name for itself in this special field and as early as in the mid thirties the company supplied high-pressure vessels, valves and pumps into the whole world. In most cases the equipment was used for ammonia synthesis or for various hydrogenation processes.
In the fifties the most important field of activity of Uhde Hagen developed: the large-scale industrial production of polyethylene at high pressures of up to 3,600 bar. Uhde supplied the complete process equipment of the plant as well as high-pressure pilot plants used to further the development of the process. In the year 1952 Uhde was taken over by the Hoechst group in Frankfurt which also manufactured and operated polyethylene plants later on. Thus, Uhde Hagen was able to gain valuable experience in the operation of LDPE plants.
Today, Uhde High Pressure Technologies covers a wide range of industrial high-pressure technologies – ranging from waterjet cutting, urea and LDPE equipment to turnkey high-pressure plants for the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Such a wide range of products would not be possible without the historical development and the confidence shown by our customers.
We thank all our customers, suppliers and fabrication partners for the confidence shown to us for many years and for the good cooperation.
