 Apart from ships it also made boilers, large engines and dredgers.By 1930, when it had to close for 5 years as a result of the worldwide economic crisis, it had delivered 1,400 ships from its slipways to places as far away as Africa and South America.In 1945 the firm was totally destroyed; it later reformed as "VEB Dampfkesselbau Übigau", building boiler systems for large ships until the 1990s, and vehicle cranes as well from its privatisation in 1990 until its insolvency in 2001 .