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Leadec: At the heart of the industry for 60 years

“From a boiler cleaner to the leading Leadec is growing organically and
global service provider for the entire inorganically. The company brought
factory – Leadec has undergone a off a coup at the end of 2020 with the
comprehensive transformation over the acquisition of Diversified Automation,
past 60 years,” says Markus Glaser- the automation specialist for distribution
Gallion, CEO of Leadec. “Our vision for example through the acquisition centers in the USA. In the past year
is: We want to be the leading service of a majority stake in Hörmann alone, Leadec has acquired seven more
specialist for the factory of today and Industrietechnik. Leadec has been an companies to technically strengthen its
tomorrow.” independent company since 2017. service portfolio and expand its footprint
The company was founded in Global player and local partner in various sectors of the manufacturing
1962 as Kesselreinigungsgesellschaft Today, the service specialist offers industry.
Reichenberger & Co. Today, we are still its services from a single source at
working for the first customers VW more than 300 sites on four continents. Digital end-to-end solution
and Daimler at many sites. The boiler Customers rely on Leadec’s expertise in On the way to the factory of the future,
cleaning company changed its name to complex processes in the smart factory, Leadec is consistently focusing on
Deutsche Industriewartung GmbH & Co. e-mobility, sustainable production and digitization. The services provided are
KG (DIW) in 1985 and was active on the corresponding infrastructure. mapped and controlled digitally by
market as Voith Industrial Services from “We will continue on our growth path means of the Leadec.os platform. This
2000. During this time, the company in 2022 and achieve more than one is supplemented by its own IoT Home
expanded internationally, among other billion in sales,” says Markus Glaser- Cloud, in which machine data is recorded
things by founding a Chinese company, Gallion optimistically. “With our extensive and evaluated. This enables end-to-end
acquiring Premier in the USA and knowledge of production processes and integration from the shop floor with its
ThyssenKrupp Services in the UK. In equipment, we are ideally positioned to equipment to the executed service order
Germany, the portfolio expanded further, make the factories fit for the future.” – from the factory to the service.

Schaeffler India has received approval for

PLI scheme among

“The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) “The Production Linked Incentive
scheme approval will be a catalyst for (PLI) scheme has received an
our mission of advancing conventional overwhelming industry response
mobility to sustainable mobility with a 76% higher than anticipated
through development of intelligent target. We are confident that the
components, systems and services. scheme approval provided for
The scheme will help in creation Schaeffler India will create significant
of economies of scale and robust opportunities in the automotive
supply chain in the areas of advanced market through our innovative
automotive technology products while overcoming the cost products. The scheme has given us the impetus to localize our
challenges throughout the value chain thereby helping us to high precision products for future mobility needs and boost
gain a competitive edge & drive export capacity.”_ Harsha manufacturing activities locally, further strengthening the Best
Kadam, MD & CEO, Schaeffler India Cost Country status for India for manufacturing activities.”_
Sanjeev Saxena, President (Automotive), Schaeffler India.

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