Company History
The story of the Plansee Group starts with the inventive genius of the company's founder, Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf. The history of his life is closely bound up with the history of powder metallurgy itself. In 1921, he founded Metallwerk Plansee GmbH. Between 1936 and 1952, the company was owned by Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG before Paul Schwarzkopf once again became sole proprietor of Metallwerk Plansee GmbH in 1952. In the 1980s, the Plansee Group consisted of 14 companies worldwide. By the mid-1990s, this number had grown to 24 companies. The year 2002 saw the emergence of the Ceratizit corporate division. A joint venture with the Japanese Mitsubishi Materials Group in 2005 led to the founding of the PMG corporate division. In 2008, the Plansee Group acquired the GTP division from Osram. This represented the birth of the Global Tungsten & Powders corporate division. Since 2011 Plansee Group holds shares in Molymet, a Chilean molybdenum supplier.
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