ETA

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ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1948
Seat Altdorf near Nuremberg , Germany
management Clifford Sell
Number of employees 1414
sales 90 million
Branch Device circuit breaker
Website www.eta.de

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The ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH is a globally operating family company based in Altdorf . The company, founded in 1948 , is the world market leader in device circuit breakers and a supplier of system solutions in the fields of protection, switching and monitoring.

history

The company was founded in 1948 by Jakob Ellenberger and Harald Arthur Poensgen in Altdorf near Nuremberg, where production started in August of the same year. In 1955 the company expanded to the USA , and in 1957 to Canada . In 1969 the electronics division was established. Then Horst Ellenberger, Carl Horst Poensgen and William F. Sell took over the management. There has been a branch in Austria since 1998. In 2006 Bernd Ellenberger succeeded his father as managing director. In 2007 a branch was established in Russia and in 2008 a plant in Indonesia.

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The steady growth in sales and employee development (see table) was followed by a break in the positive corporate development caused by the global economic crisis in 2007, which was reflected in both sales and employment in the company in 2009. In 2009 there was a decrease in sales of 32% and a decrease in the number of employees by 152 to 785 employees. In 2009, 1220 people were employed worldwide; the foreign share of sales in 2009 was 67%. Investments and engagement in Asia are to be expanded further, particularly in Japan and China. ETA only achieved a third of its sales of 90 million in 2014 (2013: 85 million) in Germany, with the company generating the majority abroad. On October 31, 2014, Philip Poensgen, from the third generation of the family business, retired from the company as managing director. The company is then continued by Clifford Sell as sole managing director. The company shares of the Poensgen family were taken over by the remaining shareholder families . The company employs 1414 people worldwide (as of December 31, 2014), 551 of them in Altdorf and 161 in Hohenfels in Upper Palatinate . ETA has six production sites and 13 sales offices of its own. There are subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Austria, Singapore, Spain and the USA. A subsidiary in Australia and offices in China and Thailand have been new since 2005.

Subsidiaries

List of subsidiaries of ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH with 100% participation (as of December 31, 2013):

Source: Federal Gazette

Total assets, sales and employees

In 1999, ETA achieved sales of 108 million DM (54 percent of which were exported) with 880 employees, had subsidiaries and production facilities in 13 countries and ETA agencies in 30 countries. In 2003 ETA had 808 employees.

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Total assets 35.0 million 39.4 million 44.9 million 40.6 million 37.3 million 37.0 million 37.7 million 37.1 million 38.2 million
Domestic sales 62 million 63 million 72.4 million 72.1 million 71.3 million 48.5 million 63.9 million 71.6 million 65.1 million 66.7 million 74 million
Sales worldwide 87 million 100 million 97 million 93 million 73 million 84 million 91 million 87 million 85 million 90 million
Employees in Germany 857 873 953 974 937 785 758 770 724 712 713
employees worldwide circa 1400 1232 1273 1373 1414

All sales figures in €. Unless otherwise stated, all figures from the annual financial statements of the Federal Gazette or from the sources already mentioned here

Approx. 8% of sales flow into research and development every year. A consolidated financial statement of Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH Altdorf is prepared for the entire group.

Fields of activity and range

The company's activities are divided into four business areas: chemicals , transport, telecommunications , and automation technology . The range includes, among other equipment circuit breakers , sensors and knives , switching and control units , power distribution systems , as well as circuit breakers and relays .

Patents

The group company Ellenberger & Poensgen holds the rights to the patents of ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH. A total of 65 patents registered with the German Patent Office are listed (as of November 30, 2015). Of the 65 patents, 12 are European patents (EP No.) and 53 German patents (DE No.).

Examples:

Certifications

Awards

  • Top 100 innovation management of medium-sized companies , tested by Nikolaus Franke and his team from the Vienna University of Economics , presented on June 22, 2012 in the Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen by science journalist and TV presenter Ranga Yogeshwar .
  • Certificate for particularly high customer satisfaction , a survey in cooperation with the Steinbeis Transfer Center from Rhineland-Palatinate.

literature

  • Ellenberger & POENSGEN GmbH. ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH. 1948 - 1988. Standard for security. von Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH (author), Jürgen Schneider (editor), paperback, 1988 (1st edition), 1998 (2nd edition) 463 pages
  • Companies, innovations and the world market in circuit breaker technology since 1948 : the case study Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH / ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH. Contributions to economic and social history (volume 22) by Jürgen Schneider (author), Horst Ellenberger (author), Carl H. Poensgen (author), paperback, December 2003, 474 pages, Franz Steiner Verlag ; Edition: 1 (December 2003), language: German, ISBN 3-515-08219-0 .

Web links

Commons : ETA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f "Dream situation" for ETA: 90 million euros in sales (nordbayern.de from March 28, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  2. ↑ Latest history: End of World War I until 2012 (altdorf.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b c Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Ed.): Lexicon of the German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  4. ↑ World market leader ETA is just taking off (nordbayern.de from April 12, 2014, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  5. ↑ Compact power distribution with electronic circuit breakers in a pluggable design (all-electronics.de from April 14, 2014, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  6. ↑ ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH (chemie.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  7. ↑ Redundant 24 VDC power distribution in the chemical industry: optimally supplied and selectively secured (industrieanzeiger.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  8. ↑ a b Jakob Ellenberger and Harald Arthur Poensgen in Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) , 2nd edition (2006), Volume 3 (Einstein - Görner), Munich, edited by Rudolf Vierhaus, p.33 (DBE, 2nd edition, volume 3, p. 33)
  9. ↑ a b Jakob Ellenberger and Harald Arthur Poensgen in Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) , 2nd edition (2006), Volume 3 (Einstein - Görner), Munich, edited by Rudolf Vierhaus, p.287 (DBE, 2nd edition, volume 3, p. 287)
  10. ↑ History (eta.at, accessed on December 6, 2015)
  11. ↑ Chronology of the company's history ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (eta.at, accessed December 6, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eta.at
  12. ↑ a b In the United States for half a century: ETA Circuit Breakers was founded in Chicago in 1955 (pressebox.com dated November 22, 2005, accessed December 5, 2015)
  13. ↑ a b E-TA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH (wirdzu-wem.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  14. ↑ a b Guest of KEM: Carl Horst Poesgen, Managing Director ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH, Altdorf (kem.de from March 1, 2001)
  15. ↑ Balance sheet / annual accounts of the company ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH in Liqu., FN 56090 k as of December 31, 1998 submitted on October 11, 1999 (firmenbuchauszug.at, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  16. ^ ETA: Bernd Ellenberger new managing director (chemietechnik.de from April 26, 2006, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  17. ↑ Generation change in the management: New member of the management at ETA (pressebox of April 19, 2006, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  18. ↑ a b c d E-TA consistently on a strategy course! (pressebox.com from April 16, 2008, accessed December 5, 2015)
  19. ↑ Circuit breaker specialist ETA feels the crisis (bild.de April 14, 2009, accessed December 5, 2015)
  20. ↑ ETA makes 13 million less sales than planned (nordbayern.de of April 18, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  21. ↑ Optimistic for 2014 (computer-automation.de, April 29, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015)
  22. ↑ Family withdraws from Altdorf company: Poensgen leaves ETA , Nürnberger Land, on September 29, 2014. Accessed on December 4, 2015.
  23. ↑ Logistics in Altdorf (ihk-nuernberg.de from May 2006, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  24. ↑ On-site meeting with the world market leader: FREE VOTERS visit the ETA company in Altdorf near Nuremberg ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (mein-mitteilungsblatt.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mein-mitteilungsblatt.de
  25. ↑ a b c d E-TA with a significant increase in sales in Germany! Investments in Germany and a positive result characterize the course of the 2005 financial year (pressebox.com from April 19, 2006, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  26. ↑ Company entry : Eta Electronic Apparate GmbH (bfr.de, accessed on December 6, 2015)
  27. ↑ a b c d E-TA with sales increase! A new strategic direction and positive growth characterize the course of the 2006 financial year (pressebox.com from April 19, 2007, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  28. ↑ ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate - supplier of electrical equipment with gratifying sales growth (maschinenmarkt.vogel.de of May 18, 2007, accessed on December 6, 2015)
  29. ↑ a b Targeted investments strengthen ETA for the future (n-land.de of April 15, 2010, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  30. ↑ a b E-TA knows how to protect cars and houses (Mittelbayerische.de, April 19, 2012, accessed December 5, 2015)
  31. ↑ Systems for electrical safety (ihk-nuernberg.de from May 2012, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  32. ↑ Danger recognized, danger averted: Electronic circuit breakers secure gas liquefaction plant ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 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. (kem.de, chemie-anlagen + verfahren, Die Zeitschrift für Chemie- und Pharmatechnik , issue 4/2010, p. 50)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kem.de
  33. ↑ Selective overcurrent protection and optimized power distribution and equipment (vogel.de (Elektronik Praxis March 2015, pp. 34–36), accessed on December 5, 2015)
  34. ↑ Small current monitors always smarter (ihk-nuernberg.de from May 2014, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  35. ↑ AC power distribution from ETA in the sense of modern communication technology ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 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. (industrial-automation.net of October 29, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrielle-automation.net
  36. ↑ List of patents from ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH (patent-de.com, accessed on December 6, 2015)
  37. ↑ Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH (faqs.org, accessed December 6, 2015)
  38. ↑ a b Innovation instead of illusion: From the idea to market success (iena.de, presentation by Peter Meckler on October 30, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  39. ↑ ETA GmbH recognized as a think tank: ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH is one of the most innovative medium- sized companies (pressebox.com from June 28, 2012, accessed on December 5, 2015)
  40. ↑ uch: Ellenberger & POENSGEN GmbH. ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH. 1948 - 1988. Standard for security (booklooker.de, offer from August 19, 2014, accessed December 6, 2015)