ELAU
| ELAU GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat | Altfeld ( Marktheidenfeld ) |
| Number of employees | 400 |
| Branch | Automation technology, packaging |
| Website | www.elau.com |
The ELAU GmbH is a company of Schneider Electric , which in the automation technology industry operates, with headquarters in Marktheidenfeld ( Main-Spessart ). The company was founded in 1978 by the development engineers Erwin Fertig and Heinz Lang and at that time developed and produced regulation and control systems for proportional and servo hydraulics. The company is one of the world market leaders in the packaging machine segment.
Areas of production and activity
Control and drive technology for the packaging industry
Machines with intelligent electronic systems are used in the packaging industry today. Among other things, ELAU supplies the PacDrive ™ product, a control system that makes programming and maintenance of machines easier. More than 50,000 machines worldwide are controlled with this technology. In general, there are the following production areas at ELAU:
- robotics
- Controls
- Servo drives
- Operating devices
- Engineering tools
Since 1994 ELAU GmbH has concentrated completely on the automation of packaging machines. With 400 employees worldwide, controls , servo drives and HMIs (operating devices) are developed, produced and sold. In addition to the headquarters in Marktheidenfeld, sales, application and service are carried out through subsidiaries in the USA, Italy, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden as well as through international partners.
history
ELAU was founded by development engineers Erwin Fertig and Heinz Lang in 1978 and initially developed analogue regulation and control systems. In 1984 NASA placed the order for the complete electronic equipment for the Spacelab transporter. With the single-axis positioning controller SX-1, the company presented a major innovation to the professional world in 1986, which is used by BMW , Audi and VW , among others .
In the following years ELAU expanded strongly, also to Italy and Chicago, and in 1999 it was converted into a public company. Due to the concentration on the packaging industry, ELAU separated from the automotive drive technology division in 2001. ELAU positioned itself as an automation company for all machines in the consumer goods industry. To illustrate the close cooperation, Schneider Electric took over 46.5 percent of the shares in ELAU AG in 2004. ELAU Sarl, based in Paris, and ELAU Ltd. based in Milton Keynes in England were founded, as well as further branches in Lyon , Wohlen and Chicago .
In 2005 ELAU became a Schneider Electric company.
In 2006, the company presented the iSH servo series, a new integrated servo drive for packaging machines, at the SPS / IPC / DRIVES. Individual components of the machines are thus compressed into one structural unit. In the following year ELAU expanded in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries.
The company also won the Frost & Sullivan Award in 2007.
In 2008, ELAU was the largest automation company at interpack in Düsseldorf. In the same year ELAU becomes the worldwide Packaging Solution Center of Schneider Electric . ELAU AG was transformed into ELAU GmbH in 2008 with the previous chairman of the board, Norbert Gauß, as managing director. In May 2010 Andrea Barbolini took over the management.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (ed.): Lexicon of 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 .
- ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/lokales/main-spessart/Einfachere-Untern Unternehmensstruktur; art776,4809907
- ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/lokales/main-spessart/Barbolini-neuer-Elau-Chef;art772,5544862