Milestones
From the early days on Elbstrasse to the innovative and sustainable metallurgical solutions that set Aurubis apart today. The history of a company that continues to reinvent itself to meet the challenges of the time.
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Company history 1866-2016: The history of the copper group
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Marcus Salomon Beit is granted a permit to operate a "silver separating and smelting furnace" on Elbstrasse in Hamburg, laying the groundwork for what will be become Aurubis.
Marcus Salomon Beit now runs the business with his brother Raphael Salomon under the name Gold- und Silberscheider.
Raphael Salomon Beit introduces a wet process for separating gold and silver with the help of sulfuric acid. The new process is called "refining". The new metal extraction process allows the company to grow into a "combined copper-lead-precious metals smelting plant" in the years that follow
The son of Raphael Salomon Beit, Lipmann Raphael, and Hamburg shipowner Johann Cesar Godeffroy join forces with merchant Siegmund Robinow to found the Elbkupferwerk on the Elbe River island of Steinwerder to process copper ores from overseas.
The Elbkupferwerk on Steinwerder and L.R. Beit & Co. on Elbstrasse merge to become the Elbhüttenwerk-Affinir- und Handelsgesellschaft.
The Norddeutsche Affinerie AG is founded with Dr. Ferdinand Beit serving as chairman.
