Winter & Co. – a core division of today’s PPS – is founded as a service company for the growing oil and gas industry in North Germany.
Europaweit schaffen wir alleine oder im partnerschaftlichen Verbund mit Tiefbau- und Technologiespezialisten hochperformante Trassen für Rohstoffe und Energie. Keimzelle unseres Unternehmens war im Jahr 1954 die Firma Winter & Co. Die wichtigsten Stationen auf unseren Weg vom regionalen Akteur aus Quakenbrück zu einem europaweit angesehenen Pipeline- und Rohrbauspezialisten haben wir hier nachgezeichnet.
The nucleus of PPS is the company Winter & Co. founded in 1954. The service company of installations for oil and gas exploration companies had the right geographical location between the Emsland and the Weser-Ems regions in the centre of Lower Saxony’s oil and gas production.
We’ve traced back the most important stages on our way from a regional pipeline company to a specialist in pipeline and plant construction that is respected throughout Germany.
Winter & Co. is taken over by Preussag AG and placed in the Construction Division. Within the Preussag Group it developed into an engineering and construction company for pipeline and plant construction worldwide.
Permanent offices are set up in Stade and Sande, Germany, along with shop facilities for prefabricating pipeline systems of black and austenite materials.
Today’s PPS Pipeline Systems GmBH – a 100-per cent subsidiary company of the Preussag Wasser- und Rohrtechnik GmbH – arose through the spinoffs of the business divisions of pipeline construction and plant building, as well as the plant planning from Preussag Wasser- und Rohrtechnik GmbH.
Within the scope of the sale of Preussag Wasser- und Rohrtechnik GmbH to Babcock Borsig AG, PPS becomes a subsidiary of the Babcock concern.
The HABAU Hoch- und Tiefbaugesellschaft mbH (HABAU) from Austria takes a 100% stake of PPS Pipeline Systems GmbH.
Transfer of the Pipeline Construction Division to Leipzig.
WINTER ROHRBAU division expands through the opening of the Leipzig branch office.
By PPS spinning off the Plant Planning business division, PSE Engineering GmbH is formed.
Through the takeover of RAS Rohrleitungs- und Anlagenservice GmbH, the portfolio of services offered by HABAU concern is expanded to include pressure testing and pipeline inspection.
WINTER ROHRBAU range of services expands by adding the instrumentation and control engineering technology (EMSR) office at the new location in Wiesmoor, Germany.