Hengstler GmbH
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Counting and control components |
| Founded | 1846 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jochen Feiler, Matthew Moore, Andreas Wenzel[1] |
| Products | Rotary encoder, relay, mechanical counter, printer and cutter |
| Owner | Fortive |
Number of employees | around 1,000 |
| Divisions | France, Italy, USA |
| Website | www |
Hengstler is a German manufacturing company which specializes in the production of industrial counting and control components. It is a subsidiary of Fortive and focusses on the international electro mechanic market.
History
[edit]The watchmaker Johannes Hengstler started in 1846, in the south of Germany, with the series production of springs. Over the coming decades, the production was enlarged with relay, rotary encoder, mechanical counter and also printer & cutter.
In 1995, the company has been taken over by Danaher Corporation, an American concern which includes more than 400 companies. In 2016, Fortive was spun out of Danaher Corporation, which inherited Hengstler as one of its subsidiaries. Hengstler has various prominent customers like Siemens, IBM, Festo or Bosch.
Products
[edit]Hengstler supplies a complete project management with custom-made applications concerning process control and environmental technology. It produces, for example, incremental and absolute encoders, relays, mechanical counters, and industrial printers and cutters.
International
[edit]Hengstler has a sister company in Slovakia, and branches in France, Italy, the US and Asia.