Pepperl Fuchs

Pepperl Fuchs is a global company with headquarters in Mannheim. It manufactures products for factory and process automation.

Business

Target markets are machine and plant construction, automotive industry, storage and material handling, printing and paper industry, packaging, door, gate and elevator construction and renewable energy. Are produced with inductive, photoelectric and ultrasonic sensors, rotary encoders, identification systems, barcodes, readers for data-matrix - codes and vision sensors have a wide range of industrial sensors. The Process Automation Division is under the motto Protecting your Process, a market leader in intrinsically safe explosion protection and provides comprehensive, application -oriented system solutions to customer- specific control cabinet solutions for the process industry. To this end, a wide range of components from different product lines: separator barriers, fieldbus solutions, remote I / O systems, HART interface solutions, level measurement technology, Purge, operation and monitoring, power supplies, separator alarm systems for oil and petrol separators, signaling equipment, lighting, emergency shutdown equipment and accessories.

Indicators

Pepperl Fuchs employs 5,400 people, including about 500 engineers. P F has more than 80 offices worldwide. The Group posted 2012 sales of € 485 million euros. More than € 30 million will be invested in research and development every year. Other locations in Germany are Wernau, Buhl, Tuttlingen, Berlin and Amberg.

History

Pepperl Fuchs was founded in 1945 by Walter Pepperl ( 1921-2000 ) and Ludwig Fuchs ( 1920-1997 ) founded as a radio repair shop in Mannheim. 1958, the world's first industrially useful proximity sensor has been developed. The first foreign sales office there was in 1973 in England. In 1979, the first step towards globalization with the establishment of the first non-European subsidiary with its own manufacturing in Singapore.

Important acquisitions after 2000: Pepperl Fuchs took over in 2005 Extec Oesterle Esslingen. This company specializes in intrinsically safe electronic visualization and control devices. 2006 VMT Vision Machine Technic was acquired and integrated into the Division Factory Automation. Mid-2010 took over the Pepperl Fuchs proximity switch business from Siemens.