About EUCHNER

About EUCHNER
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About EUCHNER

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Our Promise
EUCHNER prioritizes safety as a fundamental human need, adhering to stringent standards since 1953. The company offers tailored safety solutions and comprehensive services, including consulting and training, to ensure the safety of people, machines, and products.
Customer Focus
EUCHNER views customers as partners, emphasizing collaboration to meet their needs. The company values quality, often engaging in custom developments to provide optimal solutions.
Global Presence
With over 800 employees and 40 subsidiaries worldwide, EUCHNER ensures proximity to customers and familiarity with local regulations, enabling effective support and quick response to customer needs.
Industry Applications
EUCHNER's safety engineering is applied across various industries, including machine tools, construction, renewable energies, and automotive, ensuring protection for people, products, and processes.
Innovation and Tradition
Innovation is a core tradition at EUCHNER, with over 10% of employees in research and development. The company continuously improves products and develops new solutions, integrating digitalization and networking to enhance safety engineering.
Comprehensive Safety Services
EUCHNER offers extensive safety services, including consultation, risk analysis, and training, leveraging decades of experience and involvement in standards committees to support machine manufacturers and operators.
Product Range
EUCHNER provides a wide range of safety products, including safety switches, enabling switches, and the Multifunctional Gate Box MGB, designed to protect against dangerous machine movements.
Quality Assurance
Quality is a top priority at EUCHNER, with rigorous testing and quality assurance processes. Most components are manufactured in Germany, ensuring high standards and production flexibility.
Employee Satisfaction
EUCHNER values its employees, fostering a culture of respect and appreciation, resulting in dedicated and loyal employees.
Sustainability Commitment
EUCHNER is committed to sustainability, integrating environmental protection into its corporate culture. The company is certified according to DIN EN ISO 14001 and continuously optimizes processes to conserve resources and reduce emissions.
Company Heritage
Founded by Emil Euchner, the company has grown from a basement workshop to a global enterprise while maintaining its family business values of continuity and reliability.
Company Overview and History
EUCHNER GmbH + Co. KG, founded by Emil Euchner in 1940, is known for inventing the multiple limit switch. The company has expanded globally, establishing numerous subsidiaries worldwide. Key milestones include the founding of EUCHNER + Co. in 1953 and the expansion of the Leinfelden site in 1980.
Product Development Milestones
EUCHNER has pioneered safety engineering, developing innovative products such as the world's first multiple limit switch in 1952 and the first standardized position switch in 1972. Recent innovations include the smallest safety switch with IO-Link communication in 2019.
Contact Information
EUCHNER GmbH + Co. KG is located at Kohlhammerstraße 16, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. Contact via phone at +49 711 7597 0 or email at [email protected]. More information is available on their website, www.euchner.com.
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MORE THAN SAFETY MORE THAN SAFETY THAN SAFETY SAFETY MORE THAN MORE THAN SAFETY MORE THAN SAFETY SAFETY MORE THAN SAFETY MORE THAN SAFETY

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Safety is a basic human need. Safety is also our motivation to keep developing. Thousands of people rely on our products each day. We have been warranting this trust since 1953 by complying NO EFFORT IS TOO GREAT FOR SAFETY, WHICH IS WHY WE CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE IT. with the most demanding standards. Safety for people, machines and products – this is what our family business, now in its third generation, represents. We as experts in industrial safety engineering develop products and solutions tailored to the requirements of our customers from diverse sectors. They secure safety guards on machines...

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OUR CUSTOMERS COME FIRST WE CONSIDER CUSTOMERS TO BE MORE THAN JUST PURCHASERS OF OUR PRODUCTS. TO US, THEY ARE ESTEEMED PARTNERS WITH WHOM WE COLLABORATE CLOSELY TO DEVELOP THE BEST SOLUTIONS TOGETHER. WE UNDERSTAND OUR CUSTOMERS. BECAUSE WE LISTEN TO THEM. There is a simple reason why we treat our customers as partners: The more closely we cooperate with them, the better we understand their needs and the better we can fulfill them. Quality represents more than just durability or reliability to us; it is reflected in functionality that does justice to all of our customers’ requirements. This...

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WITH OVER 800 EMPLOYEES AND 40 SUBSIDIARIES AND DISTRIBUTORS AROUND THE WORLD, WE ARE ON LOCATION WHEREVER OUR CUSTOMERS NEED US. WHAT IS ONE OF THE KEYS TO CUSTOMER PROXIMITY? SHORT DISTANCES. Safety is in demand worldwide, but it is not defined identically in standards and laws in different countries. Advising customers in America or Asia as competently as in Europe requires familiarity with local regulations. Our close-knit network of subsidiaries and distributors in more than 40 countries lets us provide the best possible support for our customers, no matter where they are located. Not only...

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WHAT DO MANY INDUSTRIES HAVE IN COMMON? OUR SAFETY ENGINEERING. Packaging machines Machine tools Renewable energies Construction machines

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Presses/paper machines Woodworking machines OUR SAFETY ENGINEERING IS USED WHEREVER PEOPLE, PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES MUST BE PROTECTED. NO MATTER HOW VARIED THE REQUIREMENTS IN THE INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIES ARE, OUR PRODUCTS FULFILL THEM. Plastic injection molding machines Assembly technology

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MORE THAN 10 % OF OUR EMPLOYEES WORK IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AREA. THIS FIGURE IS A GOOD INDICATOR OF THE IMPORTANCE WE ATTACH TO INNOVATIONS. RECOGNIZING TRENDS, DEVELOPING THE FUTURE. We have been an innovative company ever since our founding, because our company itself arose from an invention. Emil Euchner developed the so-called multiple limit switch in the early 1950s. This device would later become world renowned as the cam switch. Since no company wanted to manufacture the switch because the anticipated demand seemed too low, Emil Euchner decided to produce the invention himself...

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SERVICE FOR YOUR SAFETY IN ADDITION TO CREATING RELIABLE PRODUCTS, EUCHNER ABOVE ALL STANDS FOR ADDED VALUE. THIS INCLUDES GREAT EXPERTISE IN PROVIDING SOLUTIONS, AS WELL AS A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF SERVICES. EUCHNER SAFETY SERVICES: SUPPORT YOU CAN COUNT ON. Our company history spanning more than 60 years has endowed us with a treasure trove of experience in all areas of safety engineering. Our membership in national and international standards committees keeps us up to date when it comes to regulations, standards and future developments. This combination does more than just allow us to keep...

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COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF SAFETY PRODUCTS Safety switches Safety switches with guard locking Enabling switches Safety switches monitor safety doors and covers on machines and installations. Opening a safety door or cover triggers a stop command and immediately stops any dangerous machine movement. Depending on the application, various technologies and functional principles are available. Safety switches with guard locking are used to prevent unintentional opening of a safety door or cover while dangerous machine movements are being performed. Depending on the application, various technologies and...

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WITH OVER 7,000 PRODUCTS, WE ENSURE SAFETY WHEREVER PEOPLE, PROCESSES OR MANUFACTURED GOODS MUST BE PROTECTED. Evaluation units and control systems Hand-held pendant stations and handwheels Evaluation units and safe small control systems can monitor, evaluate and logically combine safety switches and enabling switches, as well as all other safe signals. They are universal in use and can be flexibly expanded. Controlling access and assigning and administering access rights are typical applications for the Electronic-Key-System EKS. Consisting of a transponder-based Electronic-Key and a read station,...

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OUR PRODUCTION: FOCUS ON QUALITY ACHIEVING THE BEST RESULT MEANS LEAVING NOTHING TO CHANCE. ATTENTION MUST BE PAID TO ALL DETAILS. WE DO THIS IN OUR OWN PRODUCTION BY FASTIDIOUSLY MONITORING ALL STEPS. PRODUCTION DEPTH AND QUALITY ASSURANCE. Meeting customer needs rapidly and flexibly requires efficient production and lean processes. The top priority here is quality, which we ensure through the latest machines, well-trained employees and a QA system operating in parallel with production. We manufacture most of the components for our products ourselves in Germany. We do this for reasons of quality...

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STRICTER THAN REALITY: OUR QUALITY TESTING IF ANYTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN THE TECHNOLOGY OF OUR PRODUCTS, IT IS THEIR QUALITY. WE EVEN GO AS FAR AS DEVELOPING OUR OWN TESTING SYSTEMS TO PUT OUR PRODUCTS THROUGH THEIR PACES. YOU CAN DEMAND A LOT FROM OUR PRODUCTS. THEY CAN TAKE IT. Quality assurance at our company begins even before production. All potential materials and components for our products are first subjected to extensive load tests in our test laboratory. Only once they have passed all of the tests are they released for subsequent use. Finished products also undergo a lot...

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