Habasit
| Habasit Holding AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Reinach , Switzerland |
| management | Andrea Volpi ( CEO ) Thomas Habegger ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | over 3'600 |
| sales | CHF 629.6 million |
| Branch | Conveyor and storage technology |
| Website | www.habasit.com |
| As of December 5, 2014 | |
The Habasit Holding AG , headquartered in Reinach is an international Swiss manufacturer of drive belts and conveyor belts . The group, which consists of more than 30 subsidiaries, has 16 production sites and agencies in over 70 countries. The group of companies employs more than 3,600 people and in 2013 generated sales of 629.6 million Swiss francs.
history
The company was founded in Basel in 1946 by Fernand Habegger and his future wife Alice Fluck and entered the spindle and machine tape market in 1953. In 1959, the company, which began operating as Habasit AG in 1961, moved from Basel to Reinach. Habasit began its international expansion in 1965 with the establishment of the first foreign subsidiary in Great Britain. Further subsidiaries followed in 1967 in Canada, Spain, Austria, Sweden and the USA, 1968 in Japan, 1972 in Brazil, 1974 in Germany, 1976 in Italy, 1979 in France and 1981 in Norway.
In 1983, Armid drive belts began to be sold, the first adhesive-free, joinable flat belt with Armid traction layer on the market.
In 1985 the group had 738 employees and achieved sales of 130 million francs. In the following year, further subsidiaries in Belgium and the Netherlands were incorporated. In 1992 the company founder Fernand Habegger died.
From the mid-1990s, international expansion accelerated through various takeovers in Switzerland, Italy, the USA, Great Britain, the Far East and China. Company founder Alice Habegger-Fluck (1924–2016) died in 2016.
Habasit's core competencies
Conveyor and processing belts
- Tissue conveyor and processing belts
- Plastic modular belts
- Machine tapes
- Timing belt
- Flat top and transport chains
- Endless belts
- Round belts (as transport elements)
Drive belt
- Drive belt / drive belt
- Tangential belt
- Spindle tapes
- Machine belts (as drive element)
- Round belt (as drive element)
Complementary products
- Gear drives, gear motors, electron. Speed controller, three-phase motors
- Profiles, guide and sliding strips
- Assembly devices
Products
Product brands (main and umbrella brands)
- HabaSYNC ® timing belts
- HabaCHAIN ® flat top and conveyor chains
- HabasitLINK ® plastic modular belts
- HabaTOOL ® assembly / joining devices
- HabiPLAST ® profiles, guide rails, slide rails
Product subgroup brands (selection)
- Habasit HyGUARD ® process belts with antimicrobial additive (Europe)
- Habasit HabaGUARD ® process belts with antimicrobial additive (USA)
- Habasit Cleanline ® polyolefin-coated, easy-to-clean conveyor belts
- Habasit Cleandrive TM New belt concept: Homogeneous belt transport side with special rear crossbars as drive guides
- Habasit Flexfold ® folding box straps
- Habasit Fitline ® treadmills for fitness facilities
Industries
Habasit offers solutions for a wide variety of industries worldwide. The following list is an excerpt of the market segments in which Habasit is most strongly represented:
- Textile
- Paper & printing
- Food
- Automotive & tire industry
- packaging
- Materials handling & airports
- Wood processing
- Tobacco industry
Research & Development
Habasit dedicates more than 3% of the workforce and over 8% of the company's turnover to research and development. Conservation of the environment and natural resources are just as much a subject of research and development as new products and processes. For example, the Habasit HyCLEAN CIP system already allows customers to save more than 70% water.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Facts and Figures. Habasit AG, accessed December 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Obituary, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 6, 2016, p. 20.