process automation founded 1953 headquarters reinach switzerland . area served worldwide key people georg h. endress co founder of endress hauser ludwig hauser co founder of endress hauser matthias altendorf ceo endress hauser ag products instrumentation net income 182 661 000 2012 number of employees 11 919 end of 2013 website endress.com footnotes references 1 endress hauser endress and hauser is a swiss based instrumentation and process automation company . endress hauser operates in the instrumentation market with offices around the world producing instruments measuring level volume flow mass flow density pressure and temperature . they also produce a range of analytical instrumentation measuring variables in water quality such as ph orp conductivity dissolved oxygen and turbidity . the company produces a range of instruments designed for use in dangerous environments and extreme conditions . endress hauser has a network of 100 companies in 44 countries . in 2012 the group generated net sales of 1 694 billion . endress hauser operates production facilities in germany switzerland france the uk italy czech republic russia 2 south africa the united states china india japan and brazil . history edit on february 1 1953 georg endress and ludwig hauser co founded l. hauser kg . by 1957 it was renamed endress and hauser . the company started its activities with the sale of an electronic capacitive level sensor imported from england . today it would probably be called a garage business even though the first company premises was a converted bedroom . the level sensor soon became a success and the founders quickly began building up their own production facilities . an endress hausser electromagnetic flow meter at the tetley s brewery in leeds west yorkshire . sales which concentrated on south germany in the early years were extended to the whole of germany and then to neighboring countries . level sensors with different measuring principles were added to the capacitive meters . later sensors and devices for other physical variables such as pressure flow analytics and temperature as well as technical components were also developed produced and sold . sales and services expanded over the whole of western europe . the first overseas branch offices started in japan and in usa 1970s . in the 1980s the company started a campaign to meet the challenge of microelectronics and to take over the technological lead . the transition from signal oriented to information oriented process automation forced e h to seek active participation in various fieldbus initiatives ; today the company ranks as the global market leader . in 1995 dr. h.c. georg h. endress born 1924 passed the leadership of the company to his second eldest son klaus endress who had previously acted as the group s chief executive officer ceo . in 1997 the company acquired whessoe plc a british instrumentation business . 3 endress hauser is a private company not traded on the stock exchange and continues to be a family owned business employing dr. h.c. george h endress s children inside the organization . references edit endress hauser annual report 2013 1 . endress hauser in russia . retrieved 2013 07 12 . uk business park external links edit www.endress.com global site www.nl.endress.com nl site www.ca.endress.com ca site www.us.endress.com us site www.uk.endress.com uk site www.pl.endress.com pl site www.au.endress.com au site www.endress.sk sk site www.endress.ie ie site www.tr.endress.com tr site www.cz.endress.com cz site www.ru.endress.com ru site www.dk.endress.com dk site www.metsoendress.com fi site www.qa.endress.com qa site www.endressdirect.us e direct site www.e direct.endress.com global e direct site www.id.endress.com id site www.in.endress.com in site www.de.endress.com de site full public disclosure of the ecovadis premium report on csr management 2016 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title endress % 2bhauser & oldid 737278164 categories electronics companies of switzerlandmanufacturing companies of switzerlandinstrument making corporationscompanies established in 1953swiss brandstechnology companies of switzerlandreinach basel landschafthidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinadeutschfran aispolskisloven inasvenska edit links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 19 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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