
Physik Instrumente founds PI Innovation
Lucius Amelung, founder of PI Micos in Eschbach near Freiburg, is taking on new responsibilities within the PI Group and was appointed Managing Director of the new PI Innovation on July 1, 2018.
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Lucius Amelung, founder of PI Micos in Eschbach near Freiburg, is taking on new responsibilities within the PI Group and was appointed Managing Director of the new PI Innovation on July 1, 2018.

Parker Hannifin, manufacturer of drive and control technology, is expanding its service network with a new Parkerstore in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg.

General Manager Central Eastern Europe
Omron Electronics, a specialist in industrial automation, has expanded the role of Dr. Klaus Kluger, who is now General Manager of the Central and Eastern Europe regions.

Michael Koch continues to focus on expansion. Bouba Yaya Fadawa has therefore joined the international sales team in July.
Agricultural and construction machinery...

To counter the shortage of skilled workers, Jungheinrich is reorganizing the technical training of its German sales team. From August 2018, the company will be training 26 young men and women as agricultural and construction machinery mechatronics technicians for the first time.
Supplier fair mechanical engineering

Parallel to the planning of the FMB - Supplier Fair for Mechanical Engineering, at the beginning of November in Bad Salzuflen, the organizer Clarion is preparing for the third FMB-Süd in Augsburg in February 2019. There will be an information day for interested parties on 18 September.
Expansion of the stepper motor range

With effect from July 19, 2018, Faulhaber Antriebssysteme acquired Dimatech, a Swiss manufacturer of high-performance stepper motors using disc magnet technology.

Showroom, service center and logistics center on 3,500 square meters: Kawasaki has created the basis for growth as well as service and sales for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East with a new building.

HMS Industrial Networks has acquired all shares in the German company Beck IPC. Beck IPC is a provider of technologies and solutions for embedded control and industrial M2M communication, including solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things.

Despite increasing political and economic tensions at home and abroad, the mechanical and plant engineering sector in eastern Germany is hardly showing any signs of fatigue. On the contrary: companies have carried the momentum of recent months into the second quarter of 2018.