Argo-Hytos
| ARGO-HYTOS Management + Consulting GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
| Seat | Zug , Switzerland |
| management | Christian H. Kienzle, owner |
| Number of employees | circa 1400 |
| sales | approx. 110 million euros (2011) |
| Website | www.argo-hytos.com |
The Argo-Hytos-Group - with headquarters in Switzerland - produces and develops components and systems for the hydraulic industry / fluid technology .
history
Today's Argo Hytos Group has its origins in the former company Argo GmbH for precision mechanics. This was founded on July 7, 1947 at the request of Herbert Kienzle , the managing partner of Kienzle Apparate , in Stuttgart and had developed from the former Stuttgart sales company for Kienzle taximeters . At first, Argo was just a brand name of the predecessor company Kienzle Apparate for the manufacture of taximeters, which refers to the Greek legend of Jason and his fabulous fast ship.
An independent production program of magnetic and sieve filters was developed; In 1952 Argo received a patent for magnetic filters. The product portfolio was expanded to include hydraulic filters for mobile and industrial hydraulics , which were produced in a former cigar factory in Menzingen , Baden . In 1965 the administrative headquarters were also moved to Kraichtal. The company expanded internationally: At the beginning of the 1980s, the first own sales company was founded abroad in France, followed by companies in the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA, Sweden, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland and China.
development
In 1990 Christian H. Kienzle took over the position of managing partner and still leads the Argo-Hytos-Group. In 1993, Argo GmbH for precision mechanics was renamed ARGO GmbH for fluid technology. In the same year Argo Investments in the Czech hydraulic manufacturer Hytos, which at that time more than 50 years components for the acquired control and feedback control systems produced and developed. The company has been operating under the name Argo-Hytos since 2003.
Locations
The Argo Hytos Group operates globally with numerous sales companies worldwide and more than 100 international sales partnerships. The group has its headquarters in Switzerland and employs a total of approx. 1,400 employees, approx. 450 of them work in Germany.
Argo-Hytos has locations with production plants in
- Kraichtal (Germany) - approx. 450 employees
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- Vrchlabí (Czech Republic)
- Coimbatore (India)
- Yangzhou (China)
Portfolio & clients
The Argo-Hytos portfolio includes hydraulic filters and filter elements, components for control and regulation technology, fluid management systems , sensor and measurement technology as well as systems for wind turbines . Argo-Hytos customers include manufacturers of agricultural technology, manufacturing and machine tools , construction machinery , municipal technology and power generation.
Web links
- History brochure with a detailed history of the company (PDF; 2.2 MB)
literature
- Armin Müller: Kienzle. A German industrial company in the 20th century. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 221–225. ISBN 978-3-515-09845-8 .
- Bernhard Foitzik: Filter technology for hydraulic systems: optimal concepts for filter systems in fluid technology. 2nd edition, Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg / Lech 2000, ISBN 3-478-93136-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About Us. argo-hytos.com, accessed on May 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Open house at ARGO-HYTOS. 110 million annual sales
- ^ Armin Müller: Kienzle. A German industrial company in the 20th century. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, p. 222. ISBN 978-3-515-09845-8 .
- ↑ Company website with addresses of the individual sales companies ( memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant in China
