Sulzer Expands Designated Top Employer 2024 Network to Six Countries

Sulzer adds Germany to its group of designated Top Employer 2024 countries, now including Brazil, China, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The Top Employers Institute surveys and independently audits companies seeking Top Employer recognition, rating them against the top international standard in several categories. Aimed at ensuring and rewarding high employer standards, the […]

Neugart with a New Management Structure: Well Positioned for the Global Future

The gearbox specialist Neugart, headquartered in Kippenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany is responding to the challenges of the international mechanical engineering industry by adjusting its management structure: for the first time in the company’s almost one-hundred-year history, Swen Herrmann and Holger Obergföll are the company’s two managing directors who are not members of the owner families. The […]

GEMÜ Honoured as “Global Market Leader” for the Eighth Time in a Row

The Ingelfingen-based technology company GEMÜ is being awarded the title of “Global Market Leader” for yet another year, earning the distinction “Champion 2024” as part of the global market leader index of the University of St. Gallen and the Academy of German Global Market Leaders. WirtschaftsWoche has awarded the owner-managed valve specialist GEMÜ the WirtschaftsWoche […]

Watts Water Technologies Inc. Completes Acquisition of Josam Company

Watts Water Technologies, Inc. announced on January 2, 2024 that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Josam Company (“Josam”), a leading provider and manufacturer of drainage and plumbing products for over 100 years. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of high-quality customized products to a diverse customer base serving commercial, industrial, and multi-family […]

GEMÜ Enters the Market for the Production of Cultivated Meat

The production of cultivated meat is based on known biotechnological processes that are identical to those used in other large-scale applications for cell culture technology. For this future market, GEMÜ offers complete valves, as well as measurement and control systems, from a single source. Cultivated meat is a steadily growing market that represents an efficient […]

Vagner Rego Next President and CEO of Atlas Copco Group

The Board of Directors of Atlas Copco AB has appointed Vagner Rego as the new President and CEO of Atlas Copco Group, effective May 1st, 2024. He will replace Mats Rahmström who has, as previously communicated, requested to leave his position after successfully leading the Group since 2017. “Vagner Rego is an appreciated leader with […]

Change at Endress+Hauser

Change at Endress+Hauser

Endress+Hauser has completed the announced change at the top of the Group: Dr Peter Selders has taken over as CEO of the Swiss specialist for measurement technology and automation solutions. The 54-year-old holds a doctorate in physics, has been with the company since 2004 and was previously managing director of the competence center for level […]

Compressor Distributor in Ecuador Has Become Part of Atlas Copco Group

Atlas Copco Group Completes Acquisition of KRACHT GmbH

KRACHT GmbH (Kracht), a manufacturer of high-quality technologies including external gear pumps, fluid measurement, valves, hydraulic drives, and dosing systems has become part of Atlas Copco Group. Kracht was founded in 1911 and has its headquarters in Werdhol, Germany. The company has subsidiaries in US, China and Hungary, and approximately 440 employees. In 2022, Kracht […]