The Group

Endress+Hauser, founded in 1953 by George Endress (Swiss) and Ludwig Hauser (German) as a level measurement company, has grown to be one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of process measurement instrumentation and solutions.

These two started, with one helper, to build and sell electronic level measuring devices in an old shed in Lorrach  near the Swiss and French border.  Start-up capital was DM25000 loaned from the bank.  Today this 'technology orientated business start-up' would receive state funding for its efforts.  "It was a stroke of luck for me," say Dr  h.c.  George H. Endress today,  "that  Daddy Hauser was sitting so firmly on the money."

In 1975, Hauser passed away, but the company continued to flourish, expanding its product range by acquisition and intensive internal research and development.

With a global vision that 'customers identify E+H as the international solution supplier with a wide range of process measurement and a strong presence worldwide,' Endress+Hauser,that today has 24 manufacturing facilities worldwide and sales offices in 41 countries, has recently established a network of  Regional  Service Support Centres, from which technically qualified support can be offered anywhere in the world.  Additionally, the Endress+Hauser Group continues to open new sales and support offices in all strategic process industry territories - in 2001, Australia, Hungary and Portugal .

The Group's philosophy of continued increases in market share, and improved customer relationships, can only be meaningful if the enterprise operates profitably.

Despite the unfavourable global economic conditions, 2002 reflected a 4.2% increase in orders received, totalling €728 milliion, an increase in employees from 5885 to 5905, and profits (EBIT) increased by 16.7% to €50.6 million. 

The Endress+Hauser strategic mission, 'to develop, manufacture and sell sensors, transmitters and systems, which extract information from processes and prepare it for use by control systems' has resulted in the Group now being ideally positioned as a 'one-stop-shop' for process measurement solutions.

Although the foundation was built on level monitoring, the technology basket has expanded to include flow, pressure, temperature, fluid analysis, data recording and more.

Today, Endress+Hauser is recognised as the leader in most process measurement systems and is continuously pushing the horizons of new technologies such as field busses, systems, and exotic material, to offer the best-of-breed solutions.