Basler AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0005102008 |
| founding | 1988 |
| Seat |
Ahrensburg , Germany
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| Number of employees | 853 (2019) |
| sales | 162 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Image processing |
| Website | baslerweb.com |
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The Basler AG , headquartered in Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein) is a company in Vision Technology , the technology of artificial vision . Basler initially established itself on the market as a supplier of turnkey inspection systems for quality control and then began developing and manufacturing its own industrial cameras. Since 2010 the company has mainly focused on its camera business and is a developer and manufacturer of image processing components for use in industrial mass production, medicine & life sciences, as well as traffic control and logistics.
The company, founded in 1988 by Norbert Basler, employs around 850 people at its locations in Ahrensburg, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, China and Japan.
In total, Basler AG manufactured more than 500 products in 2013 and is listed on the stock exchange.
history
The company was founded by Norbert Basler (* 1963) and Stephan Berendsen in Lübeck in 1988 . In the following years, various offshoots were established abroad: Basler Inc. in Exton, PA, USA in 1994 ; 1995 Basler Asia Pte. Ltd. in Singapore; the Basler Representative Office in Taiwan, the Optical Media Inspection and Sealing Inspection business units , the Machine Vision Components business unit and the Display Inspection business unit . The digital camera division has existed since 1997. The company went public with the introduction of the share on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt on March 23, 1999. In the same year, the Web Inspection division was added, and in 1999 the company moved to Ahrensburg. One year after the IPO, CEO Norbert Basler resigned for health reasons and switched to the Supervisory Board, which he has chaired since 2003. Dietmar Ley succeeded him on the board.
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The company continued to grow, including the establishment of Basler Vision Technologies Taiwan Inc. as an independent subsidiary in 2001 and the establishment of a new representative office in Shanghai in 2002. In the following years service and sales offices were added in Korea and Japan. In 2004 Basler AG received the innovation award of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry for an inspection system for testing starting products for the manufacture of flat screens. In 2006 this was followed by an award as “ Landmark in the Land of Ideas 2006 ”. With the company's 20th anniversary in 2008, Basler AG was also able to celebrate the business year with the highest turnover up to that point. Since 2008, there has been increasing investment in surveillance cameras (IP cameras). For Basler AG, 2009 was marked by the negative effects of the global economic and financial crisis. At the end of 2009, Basler AG sold the formerly declining core business of Optical Media Inspection (with a turnover of less than EUR 2 million most recently) to the Canadian company Xiris.
While the business segment of turnkey inspection systems ("Solutions") was massively affected by the effects of the financial crisis, the business segment of industrial cameras ("Components") was able to cope with the crisis comparatively well. In 2010, the concentration on the camera business and the sale or abandonment of some product lines within the solutions business led to an increase in earnings potential. Basler AG sold Sealing Inspection to Asentics GmbH & Co. KG and the solar wafer inspection product line to Semilab. In August 2014, the company opened a camera assembly factory in Singapore. Industrial cameras of the ace model family for the Asian market are assembled and sold there. In 2013, Basler AG took a leading position in the field of GigE Vision cameras. In February 2015, series production of Basler Lenses, a series of lenses manufactured by Fujinon on behalf of Basler, began.
Corporate structure
The largest division of Basler AG includes digital cameras for industrial and medical applications as well as for traffic control systems. Network cameras also belong to this division. Individual spare parts business from the former Solutions division will be continued in the Custom Projects division.
Products
The Basler AG product range includes
- Area cameras
- Line scan cameras
- Network cameras
- Accessories (lenses, cables, cards and housings)
- Software package "pylon Camera Software Suite"
Basler cameras support a number of different interfaces. The company is an active member of various standardization committees such as CameraLink , GigE Vision, USB3 Vision GenICam and EMVA1288.
Basler line scan camera Basler racer (2013)
Basler network camera Basler Fixed Box and Basler Fixed Dome (2013)
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management
The current management board includes:
- Dietmar Ley, CEO, responsible for research and development, organizational development and human resources
- John P. Jennings, responsible for sales, communications and the company's subsidiaries
- Arndt Bake, responsible for Marketing from January 1, 2014
- Hardy Mehl, responsible for Finance and Operations from January 1, 2014
Members of the supervisory board are:
- Norbert Basler, chairman
- Eckart Kottkamp, deputy chairman
- Horst W. Garbrecht
- Mirja Steinkamp
- Dorothea Brandes
- Marco Grimm
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consolidated financial statements according to IFRS for the financial year from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 in the electronic Federal Gazette; Retrieved January 6, 2012
- ↑ Supervisory Board of Basler AG
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2019. (pdf) In: baslerweb.com. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt of October 24, 2013, IHK recognizes Basler AG as a good trainer
- ↑ Supervisory Board of Basler AG (with a short biography of Norbert Basler)
- ↑ Milestones , website of Basler AG, accessed on March 16, 2018
- ↑ Quarterly Report 2009
- ↑ EANS-Ad Hoc announcement on www.Presseportal.de
- ↑ Annual Report 2009 ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 802 kB)
- ↑ a b company website of Basler AG
- ↑ Camera assembly factory in Singapore opens Elektrotechnik on July 21, 2014
- ↑ Series production of the Basler Lenses begins on February 5th, 2015
- ↑ 9-month report 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ Corporate website of Basler AG, Supervisory Board
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