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[June 2007]
Endress+Hauser Makes Record Investments
The Endress+Hauser Group is massively reinforcing and expanding its world-wide network for sales, service and production. In 2006 the corporation invested €79.4 million in buildings and plants, €16.7 million more than in the previous year – a record in the 54 years of the company's history. For 2007 Endress+Hauser is planning to hit the €106 million mark.Last year a new production facility was inaugurated in Suzhou, China, 100km west of Shanghai. Working together under one roof, three product centres –
Endress+Hauser Maulburg, Endress+Hauser Conducta and Endress+Hauser Endress+Wetzer – assemble and calibrate level, pressure, analysis and temperature measuring instruments. The three companies invested about €7 million. The new building of the Japanese sales centre in Fuchu, a suburb of the capital Tokyo, was also inaugurated (cost: over €5 million).At the end of 2006, the 'Sternenhof' in Reinach, Switzerland, was ready for occupancy. At a total cost of €34 million, this is the largest building project in the history of the corporation. The 19,500 square metre complex includes offices, conference, training and exhibition rooms. The Swiss sales centre Endress+Hauser Metso, Endress+Hauser Process Solutions (specialising in automation solutions), Endress+Hauser Instruments International (responsible for providing support to international markets) as well as the holding companies of the corporate group are all located here. Around 400 people work in the 'Sternenhof'.
Endress+Hauser Flowtec expanded the plant at Cernay, France, for just Endress+under €2 million. A new hall has greatly improved work procedure in the manufacture of magnetic-inductive flowmeters with large nominal diameter. The company has invested about €14 million in a new plant in Greenwood, IN ,USA. Production began at the beginning of May 2007. The flowmeter plant in Suzhou in China is also undergoing expansion at present. There are also plans to extend the plant in Aurangabad, India.
Building is underway at two locations on the Endress+Hauser site at Maulburg in Germany: for about €12 million the specialists for level and pressure measurement are constructing a building with production and office space as well as a new canteen for the 1,500 employees on the site. A new building is also planned for construction in the region around Berlin, where pressure sensors are already developed and manufactured. Endress+Hauser Conducta, the product centre for analytical measurement engineering, plans to start work on the new office and production building at the headquarters in Gerlingen, Germany in summer 2007.
In Manchester (England) a new building for the British sales and product centre is under construction. The new building, costing about €7 million, is scheduled to open in September 2007. Endress+Hauser Thailand is also to get a new location. Work has also started on the building of a logistics and service centre in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It will primarily take over work for the German, Swiss and Austrian sales centres, as well as for the sales support centre, Endress+Hauser Instruments International.
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in the provision of measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. In 2005 the group generated €885.5 million in turnover and a profit of €69.8 million. The family business comprises 75 companies with more than 7,000 associates in 38 countries, managed and coordinated by a holding company in Reinach, Switzerland.
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