Hekatron

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Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH

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founding 1963
Seat Sulzburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Peter Ohmberger ( Managing Director )
Number of employees 371
sales 145 million euros
Branch Security technology
Website www.hekatron-brandschutz.de
Status: 2019

Hekatron headquarters in Sulzburg
Hekatron at Security 2006
Fully automatic smoke alarm device production at the Sulzburg site

The Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH ( Hekatron fire protection ) is a commercial enterprise, the market of plant-specific fire protection is active and the sister company at the site Sulzburg all your products Hekatron GmbH can produce. The company is part of the Swiss Securitas Group. Hekatron Brandschutz works as a member of the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) in various committees on national and international standards. The company's name is a suitcase word from Hecate , the Greek goddess, and “electronic”.

history

The company was founded in Bielefeld in 1963 as Pyrotector Europe GmbH. It was an American-German joint venture to sell American fire alarms on the European market.

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In the following year the company moved to Sulzburg in Baden-Württemberg, where it was initially housed in some rooms of the Ernst-Leitz-Schule , while lessons continued in the other rooms. Of the twelve employees at the Bielefeld company, three had moved to Sulzburg with them.

In 1965 Hekatron became a member of the Swiss Securitas Group. In 1969 sales of over one million D-Marks were achieved. In 1971 the company moved to its current headquarters outside the city, and its production area had to be expanded just three years later.

In 1978, after the contract had expired, the American licensor Pyrotector was separated, the name was changed to Hekatron and the Securitas group acquired a majority stake, before Hekatron was fully integrated into the Securitas group in 1993.

In 2001, Vertriebs und Technik GmbH emerged from the original company. The two Hekatron GmbHs employed around 950 people in December 2019, around 70 of whom are in the field.

Products

Even as Pyrotector Europe , the company in 1967 developed the first fully automatic hold-open system for fire barriers with triggering optical smoke detectors . The development of Europe's first scattered light smoke detector begins in Sulzburg, the market of which was dominated by the Cerberus ionization smoke detector at that time . This smoke alarm series 130 helped the company break through in the European market in 1982.

The manufacturer's first microprocessor-controlled fire alarm control panel followed in 1984 , before the 140 series of detectors was introduced in 1988. This was the first detector series with evaluation of the measuring chamber contamination and with trend analysis.

After the first optical smoke switch ORS 142 with measuring chamber monitoring, alarm threshold tracking and contamination indicator, presented in 2000, the first hybrid detector with Cubus leveling followed in 2006, which dynamically adapts to the ambient conditions. In 2008, Hekatron at the fair Security in Essen the first FET - gas sensor for fire detectors before.

Hekatron Brandschutz generally sells the following products:

Awards

  • 1995: Prix Européen d'Inventions for a Hekatron development engineer for the development of a punctiform smoke detector based on the transmitted light principle
  • 2007: GIT security award for the SecuriStar H hybrid detector with Cubis leveling
  • 2009: GIT Security Award for the Genius Hx smoke alarm device
  • 2010: GIT Security Award for the Integral IP fire alarm control panel
  • 2013: GIT Security Award for the IACmobile app for access to the Integral IP fire alarm control panel
  • 2013: Test winner Stiftung Warentest for Genius Hx in the category “Wireless smoke alarms”
  • 2016: Test winner Stiftung Warentest for Genius Plus X in the category "Wireless smoke alarms"

literature

  • Horst Köhr: The amazing time with Hekatron 1963–1993. Sulzburg 1998, ISBN 3-00-002864-1 .
  • Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH: The three success factors of the future. Sulzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023635-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hekatron fire protection - self-disclosure. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Heinz Siebold: Südwest: So that not everything burns down , Badische Zeitung, April 11, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Press release. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Hekatron.de, archived from the original on August 13, 2013 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Harting: Standardization Future Conference: Approaches to the Design of the Transatlantic Relationship , Beuth, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-410-16071-7 , p. 102, preview in the Google book search
  5. ^ Sulzburg: The way from "Pyrotector" to Hekatron. Badische Zeitung, September 8, 2014, accessed on November 12, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Commitment to the Sulzburg location: Hekatron celebrates 50th birthday , Badische Zeitung, April 26, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2014
  7. ↑ Badische Zeitung: Hekatron defies the Corona crisis - Economy - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: Fire protection specialist Hekatron continues to grow - Economy - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on August 30, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Company. (No longer available online.) Hekatron.de, archived from the original on November 18, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hekatron.de
  10. ↑ Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: GIT SECURITY AWARD 2013 - the winners | GIT-SICHERHEIT.de - portal for safety and security. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Stiftung Warentest: 37 smoke detectors tested - good devices are available for less than 20 euros - test - Stiftung Warentest. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Sicherheit.info: Hekatron: Stiftung Warentest awards Genius Plus Generation | security.info. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 59.6"  E