ABOUT
ABOUT BAUER
The BAUER Group is a leading provider of services, equipment and products related to ground and groundwater.
With over 110 subsidiaries, Bauer operates a worldwide network on all continents. The operations of the Group are divided into three future-oriented segments with high synergy potential., Construction, Equipment and Resources.
The Construction segment offers new and innovative specialist foundation engineering services alongside the established ones, and carries out foundation and excavation work, cut-off walls and ground improvements worldwide.
Bauer is a world market leader in the Equipment segment and provides a full range of equipment for specialist foundation engineering as well as for the exploration, mining and extraction of natural resources.
Bauer profits greatly from the collaboration between its three separate segments, enabling the Group to position itself as an innovative, highly specialized provider of products.
The services for demanding projects in specialist foundation engineering and related markets. Bauer therefore offers suitable solutions to the greatest problems in the world, such as urbanization, the growing infrastructure needs, the environment and water, oil and gas.
The BAUER Group was founded in 1790 and is based in Schrobenhausen, Bavaria. In 2021, it employed some 12,000 people in around 70 countries and achieved total Group revenues of EUR 1.5 billion.
BAUER Aktiengesellschaft is listed in the Prime Standard of the German stock market. The Resources segment delivers innovative products and services and acts as a service provider with several business divisions and subsidiaries in the areas of drilling services and water wells, environmental services, constructed wetlands, mining and remediation..
HISTORY
HISTORY
The BAUER Group, based in the town of Schrobenhausen in Upper Bavaria, is a business with a long-standing family tradition.
The artisan’s workshop founded in 1790 has grown into an international construction and machinery manufacturing concern. The company's traditional core competency in specialist foundation engineering has today been expanded to encompass three distinct business segments: Construction, Equipment and Resources. BAUER AG has been a publicly listed corporation since 2006.
1790
Sebastian Bauer acquires the right to set up a copper smithy in Schrobenhausen.
1840-1948
Copper cladding for the roof of St. Jakob's church tower in Schrobenhausen. Artesian well constructed for Schrobenhausen railway station. Installation of the first centralised water supply network in Schrobenhausen. The office building moved in the Wittelsbacherstrasse, well sinking and water supply network in Bavaria.
1952
Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Bauer (born 1928) joins the company. With his arrival comes the big move into specialist foundation construction and an upturn in the business of the company.
- 1958, Patent application for grouted tieback anchors in loose sediment soils.
- First deep basement wall in Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk building, retained by grout anchors.
- 1967, New factory building on Pöttmeser Strasse.
- 1969, First Bauer designed and manufactured machine, the UBW 01.
- 1972, Construction of new head office building on Wittelsbacherstrasse.
1976-1984
Bauer's first large diameter rotary drilling rig, the BG 7, in operation. Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dipl.-Kfm. Thomas Bauer (born 1955) joins the company. Building of the new workshop complex in Schrobenhausen. First diaphragm walling until 80 meter depth.
1986-1989
Prof. Dipl.-Kfm. Thomas Bauer takes over the management of the company and expands the international operations of the Bauer Group. Bauer takes its own stand, for the first time, at BAUMA in Munich, the world´s largest construction equipment exhibition.
1990
Expansion into new fields through the founding of BAUER und MOURIK Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co for environmental engineering. 200th anniversary of the Bauer business.
- 1992, Establishment of SPESA Spezialbau und Sanierung GmbH.
- 1992, Bauer acquires the SCHACHTBAU NORDHAUSEN GmbH.
- 1994, Establishment of BAUER Aktiengesellschaft to act as a holding company for all present and future Bauer subsidiaries.
- 1998, Bauer acquires KLEMM Bohrtechnik GmbH.
- 2001, BAUER Maschinen GmbH becomes an independent Group company.
Acquisition of EURODRILL GmbH.
2002
New fabrication halls and extensive outdoor assembly areas for BAUER Maschinen GmbH in Aresing.
- 2003, Acquisition of FWS Filter- und Wassertechnik GmbH..
- 2004, Majority in PRAKLA Bohrtechnik GmbH.
- 2006, 18th September 2006: admittance of BAUER AG to the SDAX.
- 2007, Establishment of BAUER Resources GmbH. Therefore appearance in three segments: Construction, Equipment and Resources.
- 2008, 22nd September 2009, Admittance of BAUER AG to the MDAX.
2008
Start of construction works for the new head office administration building in Schrobenhausen and for the Edelshausen plant of BAUER Maschinen GmbH. Expansion of machinery manufacturing capacities in Aresing and Nordhausen as well as in Tianjin and Shanghai, China.
2009
BAUER Resources GmbH acquires a majority holding in the Site Group in Jordan. The BAUER Group concludes the largest capital investment programme in its history: official opening of the new head office administration building in Schrobenhausen and of the Edelshausen plant.
- 2009, Inauguration of the machinery manufacturing plant in Conroe, Texas, USA.
- 2010, 20th September 2010, Reclassification of the share to SDAX.
- 25 years of cutter technology.
- 2011, The first deep drilling rig is sold to South America.
- Construction of an underwater drilling rig and successful deployment of it for a tidal turbine off the coast of Scotland.
- 2012, During the year, the Group´s global workforce topped the 10,000 mark for the first time.
2013
Bauma Innovation Prize for an underwater drilling technique; foundation works on the future tallest buildings in the world and in Europe respectively.
- 2018, Michael Stomberg succeeds Prof. Thomas Bauer as Chairman of the Management Board; this is the first time ever that an outside leader is at the helm.
- 2019, Bauer cutter technology reaches record depth of 251.4 m at project in Canada 2020
- 2020, Start of diaphragm wall works for the 2nd core route project in Munich.
- Three successful decades of environmental and mixing plant technology.
2021
Bauer has been operating the world's largest reed bed treatment plant in Oman for ten years.
2021
Bauer presents its first electric rotary drilling rig eBG 33 and a world first with the Cube System. BAUER AG successfully carries out a capital increase.
SUSTAINABILITY
OUR SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
The BAUER Group has formulated a Sustainability Policy that is primarily oriented toward the four goals of the corporate policy: Optimum efficiency (profitability), The confidence of our customers (quality).
ORGANIZATION
The prime responsibility in terms of sustainable development of the BAUER Group lays with the Group Executive Board, particularly with the CEO, and with the managing directors of the main companies in the Construction, Equipment and Resources segments.
These individuals, together with the representatives from the areas of Sustainability, Corporate Communications and Group Accounting and Controlling, make up the Group CSR Steering Committee, which actively manages the key activities relating to sustainability.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
All sustainability activities in the BAUER Group have been combined and coordinated under the name B.sustainable since the 2021 financial year. A next key step will be to develop a sustainability strategy for the Group and the segments.
Due to the increasing importance of sustainability with its various aspects for our business areas, it is important for us to combine our understanding and our activities, which for many years have shaped the cultural core of our company as a family business, into a strategic organizational and operational structure. To this end, a comprehensive strategy process was initiated.
MATERIALITY ANALYSIS
In the 2021 financial year, the BAUER Group carried out a materiality analysis with participation of the top management levels of the Group. This was based on the 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. These were used to work out twelve sustainability aspects from the areas of environmental, social and governance values.
These twelve aspects were then subjected to a materiality analysis. Two perspectives were adopted in the process: On the one hand, the effects of the aspects on future business activity (opportunities and risks) and on the other hand, the effects of the business activity on people and the environment (positive and negative impacts) were considered.
