Heron group
| Heron special machines and controls GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1988 |
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Dornbirn , Austria
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| management | Christian Beer |
| Number of employees | 279 (2016 worldwide) |
| sales | EUR 56.3 million (2016) |
| Branch | Production logistics , intralogistics |
| Website | www.heron.at |
The Heron Group (spelling without a hyphen) is an Austrian industrial and technology company founded in 1988 with headquarters in Dornbirn . The parent company Heron Sondermaschinen und Steuerungen GmbH now serves as a service provider in the areas of finance, personnel and product development for its three operational subsidiaries. Foreign branches are located in the USA ( Dayton ), Italy ( Auronzo di Cadore ) and Australia ( Melbourne ). The company's core business is Robotunits , which develops and produces components for automated production. The subsidiary Servus Intralogistics produces the first transport robot that moves intelligently and autonomously decides on the fastest route.
Company history
In 1988 Christian Beer founded Heron Sondermaschinenbau GmbH , whose core competence was the development and construction of assembly machines . In 1994 Robotunits GmbH was founded and the Robotunits modular automation system was launched. In 1997, Heron was the first company in Vorarlberg to have its own childcare facility. In 1999 Heron CNC Technik GmbH was founded. In the 2000s, the group followed a strong expansion course. In 2001 Robotunits Inc. was founded in the USA, three years later another Robotunits subsidiary in Australia and in 2005 in Italy. After eight years of development, the Servus transport robot system was presented in 2005 and Servus Robotics GmbH was founded . In 2008, the new ten million euro company headquarters Heron Ideas Factory in Dornbirn was completed and Vecon GmbH was founded. In 2011, Servus Intralogistics GmbH was founded . In 2016, the operating location in Dornbirn was expanded by 3,640 m² to a total area of around 7,800 m² for eight million euros.
Awards
Servus Robotics was awarded several prizes such as B. the Vorarlberger Innovationspreis or the MM-Award Automatica of the trade journal MaschinenMarkt in the category assembly.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The largest employers in the country. Business location Vorarlberg, accessed on June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ The Heron group of companies wins an order worth millions from Chile. In: Vorarlberg Online . February 6, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Rümmele: Industry 4.0 pushes Heron Group. In: WirtschaftsBlatt . July 19, 2015, archived from the original on July 20, 2015 ; accessed on June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Land of Ideas. In: Vorarlberg. Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce, April 1, 2015, accessed on June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Childcare: Private providers are on the rise. In: ORF . March 28, 2013, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ^ Children's group Löwenzahn and Seidenpfot, on heron.at. Retrieved June 15, 2016
- ↑ Chronicle on heron.at. Retrieved June 15, 2016
- ↑ Heron Group builds 10 million euros headquarters. In: ORF. December 22, 2006, accessed June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Heron Group invests eight million euros. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. July 12, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Innovation awards 2006 awarded. In: Vorarlberg Online . October 25, 2006, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ MM Award recognizes winners in robotics and automation. In: industrial magazine . June 16, 2008, accessed June 15, 2016 .