Building work for the new 15 million euro office and production complex of Endress+Hauser Conducta has started in Gerlingen, Germany. The new building of the competence center for liquid analysis almost trebles the existing ground area and allows optimal production and distribution logistics. A representative visitors' center and purpose-built training rooms will also be added.
Endress+Hauser Flowtec continues to expand its worldwide production capacity, investing almost 10 million euros in the enlargement of its flowmeter production plant in Aurangabad, India. A new building will almost quadruple the effective area to about 8,500 square meters. The new production plants in Greenwood, Indiana in the USA (investment volume: 14 million euros) and in Suzhou near Shanghai in China (12.5 million euros) have begun construction. At the Reinach site, the Endress+Hauser Flowtec has bought a neighboring office and production building - with the costs of purchase, rebuilding and refitting running to about 9.3 million euros and with initial plans for logistics space.
Endress+Hauser Maulburg invests around 5 million euros in a new plant for level and pressure measurement engineering in Aurangabad, India. 15 million euros will be invested in a new development and production center for silicon pressure sensors in Stahnsdorf near Berlin, Germany. The enlargement of the Maulburg site is nearing completion, with a total of about 30 million euros invested in more space for production, research and development. By buying the neighboring area of Magnetic Elektromotoren GmbH, Endress+Hauser also safeguards further options for expansion and development.
More space worldwide for sales, service and logistics
A new 9 million euro service center has been built in Weil am Rhein, Germany, to handle logistics and service functions for the sales centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and for Endress+Hauser Instruments International, a sales support center. Almost 5,000 square meters of effective area have been created at the location of the German distribution company. By the end of the year, the newly aligned exhibition construction department will also move to Weil am Rhein.
With an extension to its building in Burlington (50 kilometers southwest of Toronto) the Canadian sales center has enlarged its effective area by more than 1,000 square meters to 2,600 square meters. A new laboratory and modern training rooms have also been built, now offering more and better opportunities for the provision fieldbus training. Plans also exist for a new and generous sales building for Endress+Hauser Poland in Wroclaw, where around 4.5 million euros have been earmarked for as many as 80 jobs and modern workplaces over 3,000 square meters.
In the UK, Endress+Hauser's Manchester workforce finally moved to their new building in December 2007. With investments of 6.3 million euros, a striking three-storey building complex combining office, seminar and production rooms was constructed on the existing site. A new visitors' center offers space for up to 120 people. In Bangkok, the people of Endress+Hauser Thailand have also moved to their new sales building.
The Endress+Hauser Group
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. With over 8,000 employees worldwide, the Group generates annual net sales of more than1.1 billion euros.
Structure
Company-owned sales centers and a network of partners guarantee competent worldwide support. Production centers in eleven countries meet customers' needs and requirements quickly and effectively. As a successful family-owned business, Endress+Hauser is set for continued independence and self-reliance in the future.
Products
Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as liquid analysis and data acquisition. The company supports customers with solutions and services in automation engineering, logistics and information technology. Our products set standards in quality and technology.
Industries
Customers are primarily from the chemical/petrochemical, food & beverage, water/wastewater, life science, oil & gas, energy, primaries, pulp & paper and shipbuilding industries. Endress+Hauser supports its customers to optimize their process engineering procedures while taking into consideration reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental protection.
History
Founded in 1953 by Georg H Endress and Ludwig Hauser, Endress+Hauser has developed from being a specialist in level measurement to a provider of complete solutions for industrial measuring technology and automation, with expansion into new territories and markets. |
