
Schleiwies takes over northern sales region
EKS Engel intensifies project business
As Key Account Manager, Torsten Schleiwies is responsible for project business in the northern sales region at eks Engel.

Schleiwies takes over northern sales region
As Key Account Manager, Torsten Schleiwies is responsible for project business in the northern sales region at eks Engel.

It promises to break records again: SPS IPC Drives. The industry get-together for the automation world kicks off at the end of November in Nuremberg with a new slogan and a hackathon.
Porsche and Schuler are jointly building an innovative press shop for automobile production. Representatives of both companies have signed the contract to establish a joint venture.
Schuler Automation GmbH & Co KG is merged with Schuler Pressen GmbH with effect from August 29, 2018.
Automotive supplier Bosch chooses open source pioneer Contact Software as its strategic partner.

Lantek announces the appointment of former General Electric manager Alberto López de Biñaspre Maurolagoitia as new Managing Director.
Just in time for the company's 70th anniversary, Hummel from Denzlingen has set a new turnover record. Last year, the company generated a turnover of 71.5 million euros, an increase of 12.1 percent compared to the previous year.
Precision tool specialist Big Kaiser celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of Kaiser in Rümlang.

Volker Bibelhausen will become Chief Technology Officer of the Weidmüller Group in Detmold on September 1. He will be a member of the three-person Executive Board team alongside Jörg Timmermann and José Carlos Álvarez Tobar. Elke Eckstein is leaving the company at her own request.

Among the innovations at FMB Süd next year will be a program of lectures accompanying the trade fair on three topics that are currently the subject of much discussion in the industry.

Robotics portfolio strengthened
The Stäubli Group has announced the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in WFT, based in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany.
Bentley Systems and Siemens intend to further strengthen their strategic alliance, expand the existing agreement and thus further develop their cooperation and commercial initiatives.

State Grid China and the technology association VDE will further intensify their cooperation. The two organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing to this end.
ULT and IVH Absaugtechnik have strategically realigned their cooperation in order to better exploit their respective strengths on the market.

With its new branch in Shanghai, the automation specialist Afag wants to move closer to the Chinese market. The premises offer space for a warehouse, a showroom and an assembly workshop.

The Kistler Group is expanding its Industry 4.0 offering. An important step is the change of name from IOS Gesellschaft für innovative Optimiersoftware mbH to Kistler Aachen GmbH.