Ziehl-Abegg Achieves a record of sales in some difficult surroundings
28 February 2014
The company
“Our products, silent and of low energetic consumption, are highly accepted in the market, “affirms the president of the Managerial Board, the gentleman Peter Fenkl. This is valid so much for the technology of fans as for the technician of accionamientos. The numerous prizes and awards received in the outside and to national level by the Federal Ministries of Environingingment and the Federal Agency of Environingingment of Germany, confirm the pioneering paper of the engineers of Ziehl-Abegg in the developments reached.”The area of business of the automotive sector will accelerate vigorosamente along the present year”, promises Fenkl. VDL Bus & Coach, the big European manufacturer of buses, will endow to his new urban buses Citea Electric with the electrical engine without gear ZAwheel of Ziehl-Abegg. This will give a true impulse to the company of Künzelsau in the next months.
“The record investments realizar, so much in the construction of the new factories as in the placing of new products in the market, have reduced considerably our results”, expresseses the financial director, the gentleman Achim Curd Rägle. Besides it signals that the net profit remained underneath of the expected because of the turbulences habidas in the change of coin. The company has not offered comments on concrete results, such as it is his habit. The number of employees has increased on line to the volume of sales. Until finals of the 2013 Ziehl-Abegg had 3.250 workers all over the world. In the five factories in Hohenlohe work 1.800 people. “Although have a quota of export of the 70 percent, the majority of our employees finds in Germany”, underlines Rägle.
The high degree of integration in his activity manufacturera has allowed him to the manufacturer of fans and motors Ziehl-Abegg of Künzelsau grow of considerable form in some economic surroundings so difficult.
The global network of manufacture of Ziehl-Abegg robustece increasingly. The headquarters in Asia, America and Australia consolidate continuously like centres of setting and of production for the local market. “Of this way approach even more to our customers” signals the director of technology, Norbert Schuster.
The volume of sales in Asia has developed notably better of the expected and the commercial activity in America is in clear growth.
The new factory beside the German motorway To6 will inaugurate in the second quarter of 2014. Only there Ziehl-Abegg has invested 27 million Euros. In the new construction is implanting in the actuality the production in series of the new electrical engine without gear ZAwheel. The production of modern motors for elevators already has set up in the new factory.
Ziehl-Abegg Expects a growth of two digits for the year 2014. This growth has reflection in the entrance of requests in January of 2014 that already was a ten percent upper to the one of the previous year.
