Leister Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1949 |
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Kägiswil , Canton of Obwalden Switzerland
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| management | Beat Mettler (CEO) |
| Number of employees | approx. 750 as of August 2017 |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.leist-group.com |
The Leister Group , based in Kägiswil , Canton Obwalden in Switzerland, is a manufacturer of plastic welding equipment, components for process heat, laser systems, gas sensors and micro-optics. The group operates in over 100 countries worldwide.
history
Karl Leister founded the sole proprietorship Karl Leister Elektro-Gerätebeau in Solingen , Germany in 1949 . The first product was the Leister FIX W200 handheld vacuum cleaner . A few years later, Karl Leister invented the Leister KOMBI, a hot air device for welding thermoplastics . He opens the first company building in Solingen.
The sales network has been continuously expanded since 1953. In 1963 the first branch was opened in Kägiswil with four employees. Shortly afterwards, the Process Heat product line , which includes air heaters and blowers, was developed. The previous location was expanded. In 1977 all business activities were relocated to Switzerland. In 1979, the company set up its own engine production facility. Leister expanded the production capacities and built up a worldwide sales network. Leister was already active in Europe, Asia and Latin America in the 1980s.
After Karl Leister's death, his wife Christiane Leister took over the management of Leister Process Technologies in 1993. In the 1990s the company began to expand into other business areas. A product line for laser systems was introduced and activities in the area of gas sensors and micro-optics were started. The latter were later outsourced to the subsidiary Axetris . A clean room was set up for this in 1999 .
In 2008 the head office was relocated to Galileo-Strasse in Kägiswil.
In 2011, the sole proprietorship Leister Process Technologies (with the Leister and Axetris divisions) and the Leister companies abroad were transferred to a group structure. The holding company of the new Leister Group is Leister AG.
In 2014 the company Seamtek LLC, USA, was acquired in order to expand the market for foil welding. While Leister previously only had automatic welding machines in its range, Seamtek made it into stationary welding machines.
Organization and business data
Leister AG since 2011, the holding company of the provider group with headquarters in central Switzerland Kägiswil, OW. The group includes the following companies:
- Leister Technologies AG
- Axetris AG
- Ascent GmbH
- Leister Technologies LLC USA
- Leister Technologies Benelux BV
- Leister Technologies Germany GmbH
- Leister Technologies Italia srl.
- Leister Technologies China Ltd.
- Leister Technologies India Pvt Ltd.
- Leister Technologies KK Japan
The Swiss parts of the company are mainly active in research and production. Leister Technologies AG, with its business areas of plastic welding, process heat (since 1967) and laser plastic welding (since 1998), forms the original core of the company. It produces equipment for welding thermoplastic plastics , hot-air modules for industrial process heat and equipment for laser Plastic Welding.
In addition, there is Axetris AG, which is active in gas sensors and micro-optics. The activity in this area started in 1998; Axetris has been an independent company in the group since 2011. It is based in Kägiswil. Ascent GmbH is also one of the Swiss companies in the Leister Group.
The seven international branches concentrate on the sale of Leister products and services. There are branches in Aachen (Germany, since 1999), Itasca (United States, since 2000), Shanghai (China, since 2004), Chennai (India, since 2007), Osaka (Japan, 2011), Houten (Netherlands, since 2012) ) and Milan (Italy, since 2013).
Awards
- 2000 - Swiss Technology Award for laser mask welding with 100 µm welding accuracy
- 2004 - Swiss Technology Award for laser globo welding, 3D contour process with direct joining pressure
- 2013 - red dot design award for the IGNITER BR4 and BM4.
- 2013 - The Airwell + 7, winner of the Golden Gas Award 2013, is based on the gas detector module LGD F200 from Axetris.
- 2014 - Leister Group takes 2nd place at the Prix SVC Central Switzerland . The reason for the award of the prize was primarily the innovative strength of the subsidiary Axetris AG.
- 2015 - At the German Design Award , the IGNITER BM4 / BR4 ignition blower won the Special Mention in the "Excellent Product Design - Industry, Materials and Health Care" category from the German Design Council.
- 2016 - Four Good Design Awards from the Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture in Chicago
- 2017 - The SEAMTEK 900 AT welding machine as well as the GEOSTAR G5 / G7 and MINIFLOOR automatic welding machines won the Special Mention at the German Design Award
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelo Garovi: Leister, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Ms. Leister achieves amazing things. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 26, 2004, accessed September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ IGNITER BM4 / BR4. (No longer available online.) 2013, archived from the original on April 14, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 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.
- ↑ Airwell + 7 Wins Golden Gas Award! (PDF) 2013, accessed on August 29, 2016 (English).
- ^ Prix SVC Central Switzerland. 2014, accessed August 29, 2016 .
- ↑ IGNITER BM4 / BR4. (No longer available online.) 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SEAMTEK. 2017, Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ GEOSTAR. 2017, Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ MINIFLOOR. 2017, Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
