Holger Stuhlmann new akf managing director
Holger Stuhlmann will succeed akf Managing Director Günter Jäger on February 1. In this function, he will take over the management of the sales units on the akf group management board.
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Balluff joins Arena2036
Balluff joins Arena2036, an association of research institutions and companies in the Stuttgart region.
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Esta: Palmeiro Rohleder takes over as head of overall sales
Daniel Palmeiro Rohleder has taken over the management of overall sales at Esta Apparatebau. The management also granted him power of attorney for comprehensive authorization to act.
read more...Endress+Hauser grows in China
Five years after the last expansion, Endress+Hauser has once again increased its production capacity in China. The third plant at this location was built in Suzhou, 100 kilometers west of Shanghai. An additional 16,500 square meters of floor space is now available.
read more...Nordsys grows and expands its portfolio
Nordsys, a leading provider of V2X system solutions, is growing - both economically and in terms of personnel. The company will therefore be moving into new premises in May 2018. There are also plans to expand the specialized product and engineering portfolio.
read more...Karsten Sachsenröder new CEO at Zitec-Brammer
Karsten Sachsenröder has been the new CEO of the Zitec Group from Plattling and Brammer GmbH from Karlsruhe since November 1, 2017.
read more...SKF test center receives LEED Gold certificate
The Sven Wingquist Test Center, SKF's large-size bearing test center in Schweinfurt, receives the LEED "Gold" certificate.
read more...di-soric takes over SNT Sensortechnik
di-soric acquires the Swiss ultrasonic specialist SNT Sensortechnik, based in Bülach near Zurich, thereby strengthening its expertise in the field of ultrasonic sensors.
read more...Trump takes over Amphos
With effect from January 9, 2018, the high-tech company Trumpf is taking over the laser manufacturer Amphos, the developer and producer of ultrashort pulse lasers founded in 2010 as a spin-out of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) and RWTH Aachen University.
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High growth at Kemper
While Kemper achieved solid growth of five percent on the German market last year, revenue rose by just under 14 percent overall.
read more...Networking with suppliers increases efficiency
The mechanical and plant engineering industry is increasingly made up of lean companies that focus on their core competencies. It is therefore increasingly necessary to build up external know-how and to expand the existing supplier-customer relationship and bundle the entire know-how. For this reason, a group of machine and plant manufacturers initiated the "Nexel - Network of Excellent Suppliers". It is supervised and managed by Qesar from Bensheim.
read more...Schmersal goes to Japan
The Schmersal Group has founded an independent subsidiary in Japan to better cover the Japanese market. Tetsuya Horimoto has been appointed Managing Director of the new Schmersal Japan KK.
read more...Telekom joins the Industrial Internet Consortium
Deutsche Telekom has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and is contributing its strength in IoT connectivity, particularly in NarrowBand IoT and 5G. Joining consolidates Europe's importance in the internationally positioned IIC.
read more...Fraunhofer develops shopping bag with deposit
Together with Schuhhaus Böhmer, the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML has launched "MyEcoBag", a new reusable system for shopping bags at Ruhrpark Bochum. It allows customers to buy a bag with a deposit and creates a closed-loop system for returned bags, as with returnable deposit bottles.
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"We are moving far too slowly"
Is Germany in danger of being left behind in the "digitization game"? FIR Managing Director Professor Dr. Volker Stich believes this is possible if politicians do not take action soon. Together with the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at RWTH Aachen University, Inform investigated the extent to which digitalization has already arrived in the German mechanical and plant engineering sector.
read more...Turck takes over industrial cloud software from Beck IPC
The cloud software from IoT specialist Beck IPC will in future form the basis for the development of the Mülheim-based automation specialist Turck's own industrial cloud solutions.
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