Nordseewerke

Nordseewerke Emden GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryShipbuilding
GenreShipbuilding
Founded1903
Defunct2010, successor Schaaf Industrie AG (SIAG)
Headquarters,
Number of employees
1400 (in 2010)
ParentFosen Yard (Norway)
Websitewww.nordseewerke.de
Nordseewerke with the inland port of Emden in the foreground seen from the southwest in 2010

Nordseewerke Emden GmbH (sometimes abbreviated NSWE, in English: North Sea Company) was a shipbuilding company, located in the Emden Harbor of the north German city of Emden. Founded in 1903, shipbuilding ended in 2010, and the company was taken over by the Schaaf Industrie AG,[1] which among other products, makes components for off-shore systems.

The shipyard employed some 1,400 people in 2010 and was the second-largest employer in Emden, following the plant of the Volkswagen automotive company. Today only few of the former coworkers of the shipyard are still employed with the new owner Schaaf, which also went insolvent in 2012.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Schaaf Industrie AG: Company/History". Retrieved 18 July 2011.