Mahle GmbH
Chairman and CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Headquarters | Stuttgart, Germany |
| Products | Automotive parts |
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Number of employees
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76,000 (2016) |
| Website | www.mahle.com |
MAHLE GmbH is an automotive parts manufacturer based in Stuttgart, Germany. It is one of the largest automotive suppliers worldwide. As a manufacturer of components and systems for the combustion engine and its periphery, the company is one of the three largest systems suppliers worldwide for engine systems, filtration, electrics, mechatronics, and thermal management. In 2014, Mahle GmbH sales amounted to nearly €10 billion.
As of 2016[update], its 76,000 employees work in 170+ production plants and thirteen research and development centers in Germany, Great Britain, United States, Brazil, Japan, China, and India. Worldwide, 5000 development engineers and technicians work as partners for MAHLE's customers on new products and systems.
In 1920 the engineer and pilot Hellmuth Hirth established together with others a small workshop in Cannstatt, where he developed and constructed a two-stroke engine.
26-year-old Hermann Mahle started working for Hellmuth Hirth on December 1, 1920, as the company’s seventh employee. The workshop was then called "Versuchsbau Hellmuth Hirth". December 1, 1920 is acknowledged as the birthday of today’s MAHLE Group. It soon became clear that the workshop would not survive by only conducting engine tests. So the need arose to build a profitable line of production in order to finance ongoing engine tests. At that time, in the automobile production, pistons were generally made of cast iron. Versuchsbau Hellmuth Hirth decided to attempt to build light-alloy pistons for combustion engines.
On November 1, 1922 Hermann Mahle's brother, Ernst Mahle, joined the factory as Head of Engineering. In 1924 the company was renamed Elektrometall GmbH.
In 1927, the company developed the first controlled-expansion piston in Germany and in 1931, the world’s first aluminum ring carrier piston for Diesel engines. Following this, piston technology was steadily improved.
In 1938 the conversion into MAHLE KG took place and the new company logo was introduced. The company expanded. New products were developed and produced (e.g., aluminium cylinders with Cromal (chrome plating) surface coatings in 1951).
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