MENCK GmbH is a specialist offshore engineering company and part of the Acteon Group Ltd

Acteon Group Ltd

Acteon is a specialist subsea services company. Acteon Group Ltd is registered in the United Kingdom and has its headquarters in Norwich, UK.The Acteon Group is one of the largest firms in East Anglia, comprising 17 companies that provide integrated subsea services, mainly to the oil, gas and...

. Headquarted in Kaltenkirchen

Kaltenkirchen

Kaltenkirchen is a town located on the outskirts of Hamburg in Germany. It is part of the Segeberg district, in Schleswig-Holstein...

, North Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, MENCK GmbH provides specialised hydraulic pile-driving

Pile driver

A pile driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures. The term is also used in reference to members of the construction crew that work with pile-driving rigs....

 services for the oil and gas industry and in the construction of other offshore structures such as bridges

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

 and wind farms

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

.

History

MENCK GmbH can trace its roots back to 1868 when it was established in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 by Johannes Menck and Diedrich Hambrock

Menck

Menck & Hambrock was a Hamburg-based German steam and diesel shovel builder.-Beginnings:The company was founded in 1868 by Johannes Menck and Diedrich Hambrock to build boilers and steam engines. Their first excavator was constructed in 1888. Even before the First World War, Menck was a world-class...

. The company started out as a steam and diesel shovel builder, but after the Second World War it focused more on the production of diesel hammers.
In 1966 Menck was bought by the US company Koehring, which went bankrupt in 1978. In 1992 MENCK GmbH was formed and acquired by Jay Ray McDermott the following year. The company moved its headquarters to Kaltenkirchen

Kaltenkirchen

Kaltenkirchen is a town located on the outskirts of Hamburg in Germany. It is part of the Segeberg district, in Schleswig-Holstein...

, Germany in 2002 and was acquired by the Acteon Group Ltd

Acteon Group Ltd

Acteon is a specialist subsea services company. Acteon Group Ltd is registered in the United Kingdom and has its headquarters in Norwich, UK.The Acteon Group is one of the largest firms in East Anglia, comprising 17 companies that provide integrated subsea services, mainly to the oil, gas and...

in 2003.
MENCK GmbH was the first-ever winner of the Ben C.Gerwick Award in 2008.

Major projects

Since 1996, MENCK GmbH has been involved in some major construction projects across the world including:

• Tagus Bridge, Portugal (1996)
• Jamuna Bridge, Bangladesh (1996)
• Utgrunden Wind Park, Sweden (2000)
• Rion Antitirion Bridge, Greece (2001)
• Samso Wind Park, Denmark (2002)
• Woodrow Wilson Bridge, USA (2002)
• Benicia-Martinez Bridge, USA (2003)
• North Hoyle Wind Park, UK (2004)
• Container terminal Bremerhaven, Germany (2006)
• Q7 Wind Park, Netherlands (2007)
• Jade-Weser-Port, Germany (2008)
• Gunfleet Sands Wind Park, UK (2009)