XERVON GmbH is a multinational company specialized in providing technical services for building and maintaining industrial facilities and a wide range of construction projects. Their headquarters are in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. XERVON is spread across Germany and has international branches and sister companies in

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, the

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, and

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. It previously operated in the UK under the name of Xervon Palmers; however, the UK branch was sold to the Chester-based businessman Colin Butt. XERVON Locations Worldwide

Originally part of

ThyssenKrupp ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It resulted from the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg and E ...

-AG, since 2011, XERVON belongs to the

REMONDIS Remondis is German multinational company for recycling, water resource management and industrial and communal services with headquarters in Lünen Lünen () is a town with around 86,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is loc ...

SE & Co. KG, which, in turn, is a part of the multinational RETHMANN AG & Co. KG group of companies.

History

XERVON's roots go back to 1928, the founding year of the Ernst Peiniger GmbH in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

which was later known as PeinigerRöRo Group.

Xervon GmbH, headquartered in

Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen (, , ; ) is the List of cities in Germany by population, 25th-most populous city of Germany and the 11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher, Emscher River (a tribu ...

, was formed on October 1, 2005, through the merger of the internationally operating PeinigerRöRo Group and

Plant Services. ThyssenKrupp Xervon GmbH since January 1, 2006, acquired the German service companies of the Standardkessel Group from the Dutch finance holding company H.T.P Investments B.V. located at

Venlo Venlo () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It is situated in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), ...

. ThyssenKrupp Xervon acquired LLS Standardkessel Service GmbH (LLS),

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

, Baumgarte Boiler Service GmbH (BSG),

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region () of Detmold (region), Detmold and the L ...

, (each 100 percent), and Siegfried Schlüssler Feuerungsbau GmbH (SSL),

Bispingen Bispingen is a municipality in the Heidekreis district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a popular tourist destination with several holiday/theme parks. Its territory also includes the nature preserve of the Lüneburg Heath around the Wilseder B ...

(74 percent). Employing a staff of 340, the companies generated annual sales of around 90 million euros as of (2006).

acquired XERVON Group from

on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. XERVON is now a part of the REMONDIS Group, effective April 1, 2011. The independence of the XERVON brand was unaffected by the purchase. The company runs under the name XERVON GmbH within the REMONDIS Group. ''XERVON Energy GmbH ''was sold on August 1, 2012 to the ''

Hitachi Power Europe () is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company is active in various industries, including digital systems, power and renewable energy, railway systems, healthcare products, and fi ...

GmbH '(HPE).''

Overview

The

-Based XERVON Group is one of the world’s leading companies providing technical services in the area of construction and maintenance of industrial plants. As of 2011 XERVON ranked number 3 in

in the field of industrial repair and maintenance, with over 8,000 employees and a revenue of €750 million.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.xervon.com Companies based in Cologne Property management companies