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First Sensor AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0007201907
founding 1991
Seat Berlin
management Dirk Rothweiler ( CEO )
Number of employees 835
sales 155.1 million euros
Branch Sensors
Website www.first-sensor.com
As of December 31, 2018

The First Sensor AG is a German sensor manufacturer from Berlin .

The company was founded in 1991 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide as Silicon Sensor GmbH and employed several former employees of the VEB factory for television electronics , who together had made a significant contribution to the establishment. Sales were expanded to the United States and the United Kingdom as early as 1992 and in 1995 a separate production line for 4-inch wafers was put into operation. After changing its name to Silicon Sensor International AG, the company went public in 1999 . In the following years several companies in the field of sensor technology were taken over and the company changed to First Sensor AG in 2011. Today, sensors for use in industry, medical technology and the transport sector are manufactured at production sites in Germany, the Netherlands, the USA and Canada. The technical sensors offered include flow, pressure and radiation sensors as well as cameras that can be used, among other things, to operate driver assistance systems in automotive engineering.

On June 3, 2019, the electrical engineering group TE Connectivity submitted a takeover offer for First Sensor AG, which is worth around 307 million euros. The takeover was confirmed in September 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. First Sensor: Our Management , accessed on June 3, 2019
  2. First Sensor: Annual Report 2018 , accessed on June 3, 2019
  3. First Sensor: Our History , accessed on June 3, 2019
  4. First Sensor: Our locations , accessed on June 3, 2019
  5. First Sensor: Company profile , accessed on June 3, 2019
  6. First Sensor: Products , accessed June 3, 2019
  7. faz.net: First Sensor's share price picks up , accessed on June 3, 2019
  8. elektroniknet.de: TE Connectivity takes over First Sensor , accessed on January 21, 2020