B&R Industrial Automation

B&R Industrial Automation GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1979
Seat	Eggelsberg , Braunau am Inn district ,
management	Hans Wimmer
Number of employees	> 3000 (2017)
sales	€ 561 million (2015/16)
Branch	Automation technology
Website	www.br-automation.com

The B & R Industrial Automation GmbH with development and manufacturing site in Eggelsberg with Braunau in Upper Austria was founded 1979th

As a manufacturer of automation technology, the company focuses on technologies in the control, visualization and drive sectors. In addition to scalable overall solutions, B&R also sells individual components. The product range is geared towards mechanical and plant engineering. In addition, B&R is also active in the field of process automation.

In July 2017, the company was taken over by the Swiss company ABB .

business development

B&R closed the 2015 calendar year with sales of 585 million euros, which is around 10% higher than the previous year. In 2014, the company achieved sales of EUR 535 million , which corresponds to a growth of 13% compared to the previous year. In the same year B&R founded two further subsidiaries in Japan and Singapore .

In 2013, the company achieved sales of EUR 475 million , which was around 11% above the previous year's result. In 2013 B&R founded two subsidiaries in Turkey and Taiwan .

Locations

The company's headquarters are in Eggelsberg (Upper Austria). In 1987 the company building in Eggelsberg, Austria grew to 7000 m². In 2000, the company expanded its main location for the first time with an additional production plant with an area of 10,000 m². Since March 2008 the company has been expanding again. With an investment volume of around 50 million euros, the company headquarters was expanded by 50,000 m².

Employees in 68 countries offer support, from project design to application creation to didactically sound training programs.

Logistical processes are kept short by local warehouses and global coordination so that the customer always has access to the entire product range and can reduce their own storage capacities.

B&R has its own subsidiaries in the following countries: Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Canada, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland , Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam. Cooperation partners strengthen the presence in over 75 countries around the world.

Company history

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1979: Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik Ges.mbH is founded
1980: First freely programmable control
1983: B&R Germany is founded as the first subsidiary
1987: B&R Switzerland, Italy and USA
1988: B&R Netherlands and Great Britain
1989: Industrial PC 2000 market launch
1991: First modular control panel
1996: B&R China and India
1997: Market launch of the automation software Automation Studio; B&R Czech Republic and Slovakia
1999: First servo motors; B&R Belgium
2000: B&R Poland
2005: Market launch of the modular control system X20
2007: B&R Russia and Spain
2010: Takeover of MONDIAL electronic GmbH
2012: Launch of multi-touch panels; B&R Turkey
2013: ACOPOSmotor market launch; B&R Singapore
2014: B&R Japan and Finland
2017: Takeover by ABB
2018: B&R headquarters expanded to include an automation campus, planned completion 2020

1987: Company building in Eggelsberg grows to 7,000 m²
2000: Expansion to 17,000 m² of office and production space
2009: Expansion to 65,000 m² of production, high-bay warehouse, Automation Academy