The Company
Effective April 01, 2019, KME Group sold its brass and copper tube product divisions to Zhejiang Hailiang Co. Ltd. This resulted in the HME Metal Europe Group with a total of five companies in four European countries and a total of almost 1200 employees. (as of 12.2022)
In our tube mills HME Copper Germany GmbH in Menden/Germany and HME Ibertubos S.A.U. in Barcelona/Spain we produce copper tubes for industrial applications and for domestic installations.
In our brass plants HME Brass Germany GmbH, Berlin/Germany, HME Brass France SAS, Rai/France and HME Brass Italy S.p.A., Serravalle Scrivia/Italy we manufacture products made of brass and brass alloys.
Founded in 1989, the Hailiang Group is today one of the largest family-owned Chinese companies, ranked 109th among the top 500 companies in China. Hailiang is one of the world leaders in the market for copper, copper alloy tubes and semi-finished brass products. With the integration of the European plants of KME SE, the Hailiang subsidiary Zhejiang Hailiang now has production facilities in important markets such as China, Southeast Asia, the USA and Europe. The company now employs 8,200 people worldwide in the production and sale of semi-finished and finished products. The Hailiang Group has also successfully established itself in other business segments such as education, agriculture, health care and construction and employs a total of 21,900 people worldwide.
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