Natural Stone - Juma Natursteinwerke GmbH & Co. KG

JUMA Natursteinwerke GmbH & Co. KG
P.O. Box 5
D-85108 Kipfenberg-Gungolding
Germany
Parcels:
Kipfenberger Str. 22
D-85137 Walting-Gungolding
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 84 65 9 50-0
Fax: +49 (0) 84 65 9 50-168
E-mail: info@juma.com
www.juma.com
International JUMA representatives in:
Abu Dhabi, Italy, Moscow, Poland,
South Africa
Natural Stone
As unique as a fingerprint.

A passion that unites
For thousands of years, stone has been a fascinating mate rial that
has accompanied the cultural development of mankind. Long
before other materials, such as metals, stone played a decisive
role in things of daily use, as a building material for dwellings or
as a decorative element.
However, its presence in our daily lives goes far beyond just
practical and aesthetic uses. Since time immemorial, the powerful
essence of stones has led people to see mystical qualities in them.
For instance, certain powers and healing properties are ascribed
to some stones. Moreover, sedimentary rocks, such as Jura
Marble, bear fossil witness to plants and creatures of long-gone
times.
Furthermore, being a material that has evolved naturally, the
structure of stone additionally reflects the force and dynamism of
its development, while at the same time irradiating meditative
tranquillity. In a time when values are shifting towards more
naturalness and originality, stone that was formed millions of
Eduard Schöpfel sen. (left-hand side, left photo) ...
... manages the quarries, the vehicle fleet, land purchases and block production
at the company. For two years, the father of Xaver Schöpfel was a student of
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr at Eichstätt Technical College, who taught him
everything there is to know about stone.
Rudolf Schöpfel (left-hand side, right photo) ...
... is in charge of product development and financial management. The qualified
businessman is the father of Alois Schöpfel.
years ago perfectly meets the criteria demanded by modern man.
After all, stone is Nature, personality, function, quality and lasting
value in its most attractive form.
As a company with a long-standing tradition of quarrying,
working and finishing natural stone, it is a pleasure for us to give
you a detailed presentation of this material and our company on
the following pages. Enjoy the fascination, and perhaps also the
temptation, of this unique material.
The Schöpfel Families
JUMA Natursteinwerke, Gungolding
The Fascination
of
Natural Stone
Xaver Schöpfel (right-hand side, top) ...
... looks after production and technical purchasing. He is a qualified master
stonemason and state-examined natural stone technician.
Alois Schöpfel (right-hand side, bottom) ...
... is responsible for marketing, overall sales management and natural stone
purchasing. He is a qualified master stonemason and state-examined natural stone
technician.
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The Company
A feel and a passion
for stone
The members of the Schöpfel families have been born with a
fascination for stone for many generations. One of their revered
ancestors was already employed as a stonemason on the building
site of Vienna‘s St. Stephen‘s Cathedral in the 17th century.
However, when one of his successors - Franz Xaver Schöpfel, the
grandfather of today‘s JUMA Managing Directors Xaver and Alois
Schöpfel - began to quarry Solnhofen Limestone (also known as
Solnhofen Plate) on his own land in Hofstetten in 1932, he had
no idea that he would become the founding father of what is
today a globally successful company employing over 175 people
in Germany alone.
The one-man business rapidly developed into a flourishing company
with a constantly growing workforce. The Plate, which was
primarily used for footpaths, soon began to be exported by rail,
from Gungolding to Northern Germany and the Netherlands.
From then on, there was no stopping the company‘s rapid expansion.
The first works for mechanical treatment of the stones was
built in Gungolding in 1947. The sons Eduard and Rudolf Schöpfel
joined the company‘s management team in 1948 and 1951,
respectively. Franz Xaver Schöpfel acquired his first Jura Marble
quarry in the late 1950s. Starting in the 1960s, the quarrying and
processing of Jura Marble - which gave the company its name
JUMA in 1972 - was joined by the import of coloured marbles,
e.g. from Italy. JUMA has also been processing hard stone, particularly
granites, since the 1980s. Worldwide purchasing is
handled via JUMA in Germany and Italy. A total of 70 different
types of stone are sold, 50 of which are permanently in stock.
Today, Xaver and Alois Schöpfel already embody the third generation
controlling the fortunes of the modern family-run business.
The sons of Eduard and Rudolf Schöpfel have already been members
of the management team since the early 1990s. The fathers
and the sons hold equal shares in the company, each bearing
responsibility for their own spheres as Managing Directors and
Managing Partners.
JUMA in facts and figures:
• Over 175 employees in Germany alone
• 300,000 m2 quarry grounds in Germany
• 130,000 m2 factory grounds in Germany
• Latest production facilities and equipment
• Annual production of roughly 10,000 m3 • Representatives in: Abu Dhabi, Italy, Poland,
South Africa
• Agencies in: Benelux, France, South Africa, USA
Left-hand side, top photo: Wedging-off Jura
Limestone blocks in the quarry by hand in 1973
Left-hand side, bottom photo: Franz Xaver Schöpfel
(left) with son Rudolf (right) and customers in the
quarry
Right-hand side, left photo: The staff of 1970 at the
opening of the new factory building
Right-hand side, right photo: The company grounds
today
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Millions of Years Old
From solidified magma to stone
Gigantic forces and incredibly high temperatures in the Earth‘s
core were responsible for the evolution of the first rocks on the
planet billions of years ago. Later, too, hot magma forced its way
time and again through the Earth‘s mantle into the crust, cooling
over a period of millions of years. In this way, the interaction of
forces, heat and pressure in the Earth‘s core, as well as exposure
to a wide range of effects on the Earth‘s surface over millions of
years, gave rise to the variety of rocks we know today.
Natural stone is extracted in large quarries. As in all other sectors
of industry, machines are today also used in stone quarrying to
handle much of the heavy work that used to mean strenuous
physical exertion. While the stones needed to build the pyramids
in Egypt some 5,000 years ago were hacked out of a level slab by
hand, different technical and mechanical methods are used today,
depending on the type of rock in question.
JUMA founder Franz Xaver Schöpfel purchased the family‘s first
own Jura Marble quarry in Walting/Altmühltal in 1948. It was
followed by quarries in the cadastral district of Petersbuch and
Titting, which the family-run business has been working since
then, processing and finishing its products. Exhausted quarries are
recultivated and returned to the ecological cycle. It goes without
saying for the Schöpfel families that their quarries are restored to
Nature as biotopes or recultivated as farmland at the end of their
working life.
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Unique pieces of Nature
Over 80% of the Earth‘s surface consists of rock, and every natural
stone is unique as regards its markings, structure and colour:
epochs of Earth‘s history, compiled layer by layer. Naturally
evolved and carefully extracted. An inexhaustible reservoir of
ever-new ideas for art, culture and architecture. Offering creative
versatility that is as individual as the human imagination.
Jura Marble
Jura Marble is a very special stone, and there is nothing else like it
in the world. It was formed in the Regensburg Strait roughly 150
million years ago and is a sedimentary rock comprising nume rous
strata. These deposits are clearly visible in the JUMA quarries.
Nevertheless even though not every piece contains an ammonite
or a belemnite, the diversity of the colours and forms is a reflection
of pure Nature.
Jura Limestone has been used as a building material ever since
people began to establish settlements. For building the castles
and houses of the upper classes, easy extraction of the stone was
an important criterion for settling in days of old. In modern architecture,
the use of Jura Marble is exemplary for all spheres of
public life and civil culture.
The utilitarian applications are impressive - from paths, steps,
walls, fountains and façades, all the way to interior claddings and
floors. Jura Marble proves to be a decidedly economical building
material owing to its highly rated aesthetic, technical and building
physics properties, as well as its favourable cleaning and care
requirements.
Rembrandt
Born 150 million years ago, the cradle of this soft/limestone rock
today lies in Altmühltal natural park. The great diversity of uses
demonstrates the aesthetic, technical and ecological advantages
of this rustic natural stone, which only JUMA offers in this form.
JUMA Rembrandt is eminently suitable for facing chimney breasts,
façades, fair-faced concrete surfaces, interior walls, plinth and
garden walls, as well as for constructing dry-stone walls for indoor
and outdoor applications.
Granites
Granites are among the most common types of rock in the Earth‘s
continental crust. They are of major commercial importance owing
to their great stability, hardness and weather resistance, and
because of their good grinding and polishing properties. Granites
embody the primeval, the genuine, the timeless. After all, every
type of granite is unique, having its own character, structure, colour
and markings. It is the ideal covering for public squares, pedestrian
precincts, steps and indoor rooms, as well as for façades, facings
and kitchen worktops.
Solnhofen Plate
Solnhofen natural stone is the hardest of the limestone rocks.
Solnhofen Limestone achieved fame as one of the world‘s most
important fossil-bearing deposits. All ten known specimens of
archaeopteryx - a dinosaur with feathers, regarded as the earliest
known bird - were found here. Be it St. Stephen‘s Cathedral in
Vienna or the Residenz in Munich, Solnhofen Limestone always
meant stones in big style. The material is today primarily used for
wall claddings and floor coverings - on top of underfloor heating
systems, for example.
Feldspar,
Quarz and
Mica
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The latest technology and optimum service
Every piece of rock that has been shaped over millions of years is
one of Mother Nature‘s little surprises. Every single stone is individual,
and each has its equally individual demands on processing
and finishing. That is why material expertise acquired in decades
of family tradition is paired with the latest technology at the
JUMA works in Gungolding. The daily work of all our staff is determined
by a traditionally cultivated understanding of how to
handle stone.
The JUMA production facilities encompass six horizontal saw
frames, two diamond circular saws and a grinding line. This
equipment is supplemented by multi-blade saws, cross-cut saws,
the JUMA tile plant and special-purpose machines for Solnhofen
Plate and JUMA Rembrandt. The latest CNC cutting equipment
is used to give the stones the required shape, cut-outs, edges and
milled patterns.
Always one step ahead
With its new system for individual kitchen worktops made of
natural stone and quartz composite, JUMA is taking a further step
towards customer-oriented services. Professionally and with maximum
safety.
JUMA has all the data of the furniture and accessories industry at
its disposal. Consequently, our competence goes far beyond the
conventional planning and production of worktops. Specially
trained staff with experience in the furniture sector examine and
plan the tops which, following computer-controlled, precision
manufacture, can then be installed without further ado by kitchen
fitters.
Traditionally Innovativ
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Lasting Value
Durable beauty for generations
JUMA natural stone. That means natural diversity for unlimited
creative options. Our wide range of stone types - from Jura
Marble and other marbles, all the way to limestone, gneiss and
granite - offers the individually perfect solution for any indoor or
outdoor requirements. It is often the little details that turn a
building into an extraordinary edifice, or architects and interior
designers into creative artists.
The extensive product range we offer includes slabs, window sills,
cut-to-size, flooring, skirting strips, facing stones, ashlars, cover
panels or tiles for kitchens, bathrooms and the restaurant sector.
Furthermore should any other wishes come to mind, we will be
more than pleased to help you. For instance, with natural stone
or quartz composite kitchen worktops – manufactured on
computer-controlled machines to ensure a perfect fit – that lend
your kitchen not only perfect functionality, but also additional,
emotional value.
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From Gungolding all over
the world
What do the Reichstag in Berlin, the Kyoto Museum in Tokyo
and a shopping mall in Los Angeles have in common? That‘s
easy: building material from JUMA. Around the globe, our stone –
Jura Marble and other marbles, limestones, granites, gneisses or
quartz composite – set standards in terms of impressive interior
and exterior design.
References
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References
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Building Location Quantity Material
Reichstag Berlin 8.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige-banded, honed
Zwinger Palace Dresden 1.400 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, honed
University Eichstätt 2.000 m 2 Rembrandt
Millerntor No. 1 Hamburg 2.000 m 2 Jura Marble, grey blue, honed
Heide-Park Soltau 5.000 m 2 Rembrandt
Austrian State Archive Vienna 700 m 2 Jura Marble, beige-banded, polished
Kloten Airport Zurich 10.000 m 2 Jura Marble, grey blue, honed
Belorussky Station Moskow 500 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, polished
Kyoto Museum Tokyo 1.700 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, polished
Roppongi Center Tokyo 12.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, honed
King Fahd Hospital Riyadh 90.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige and grey blue, honed
Life Time Fitness Various Cities, USA app. 90.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, honed
Shopping mall Los Angeles 16.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, polished
Breuningerland Ludwigsburg 5.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, ground, honed
Sports arena Szombathely 4.000 m 2 Jura Marble, beige, sand-blasted
University Krakow 1.000 m 2 Jura Marble, polar blue, polished
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Natural Stone