Meyer Werft

Article summary

Meyer Werft ( ; ) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. It was founded in 1795, as a builder of small wooden vessels. It was owned and managed by the Meyer family for seven generations until September 2024, when the German federal government and the state of Lower Saxony acquired an 80% majority stake, leaving the Meyer family with just under 20%. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group, together with Neptun Werft in Rostock. In 2014, the company added the Turku shipyard in Finland to the group. Since then, it has also been a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types had been built at the yard. The Dock 2 Hall is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022. The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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1. date of foundation: 1795 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 1795 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. employees: 3300 employees — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377992841