
New business division thanks to company acquisitions
Franz Binder Elektrische Bauelemente has taken over the business operations of the insolvent companies of the Eucrea Group, headquartered in Pforzheim, with retroactive effect from June 1, 2019.
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Franz Binder Elektrische Bauelemente has taken over the business operations of the insolvent companies of the Eucrea Group, headquartered in Pforzheim, with retroactive effect from June 1, 2019.

The Weidmüller Group has acquired a minority stake in the Taiwanese ORing Industrial Networking Corporation with the signing of a contract on May 31. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The digitalization trend in industry does not stop at purely electromechanical components. The ISA project investigated what intelligent connectors could look like.

In 2018, Hummel achieved a total turnover of EUR 73.4 million, which represents a further year-on-year increase.

In the 2018 financial year, the Weidmüller Group, headquartered in Detmold, Germany, achieved sales of EUR 823 million, as the electrical engineering company announced at its annual press conference during the Hannover Messe trade fair.
The connector supplier Franz Binder Elektrische Bauelemente has laid the foundation stone for a new company headquarters in Neckarsulm. A new building is being constructed in Rötelstrasse, which will provide space for production, logistics, offices, social rooms and a canteen.

An innovation from Lapp aims to help make cable storage more efficient: The intelligent cable drum was developed in cooperation with Schildknecht and presented for the first time at the Hannover Messe 2019.

Hummel is relaunching the M40 connector series, which is now also available with the 'Twilock-S' quick-release fastener. This variant is pluggable with the 'Speedtec' locking system.
As industrial robots and machines become ever more compact, cables and connectors also have to 'slim down'. What options are there?

Erni discontinued its D-Sub product portfolio in mid-2018. An agreement has now been reached with Provertha to ensure the continued availability of the products for current and future customer designs.