EPC Group
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Headquarters in Rudolstadt
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| private (GmbH) | |
| Founded | 1994 in Rudolstadt |
| Founder | Peter Henkel |
| Headquarters | Rudolstadt, Germany |
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Number of locations
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8 (2015) |
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Area served
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worldwide |
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Key people
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industrial plants (turnkey facilities) |
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| Services | engineering, construction |
| Owners | Henkel family |
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Number of employees
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300 (2015) |
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| Website | epc |
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 Rudolstadt, Thuringia. 2014, the EPC Group was named one of the top 100 innovators of the German Mittelstand.
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 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 the engineering business unit of the Thüringer Faser AG, one of the successor companies of the Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza.
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