references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . april 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message seca gmbh & co. kg . type gmbh & co. kg industry biomedical engineering and life science founded 1840 headquarters hamburg germany products medical scales and measuring instruments owner frederik vogel robert vogel thomas wessels number of employees 300 website http www.seca.com seca gmbh & co. kg . is a german company that develops produces and sells weighing scales and measuring instruments . its products are exported to more than 110 countries . the company s headquarters is in hamburg and it has branches in austria france england switzerland japan china mexico and the usa . foundation and history edit in 1840 locksmith a.c.c. joachims set up on his own in hamburg and began to build scales . he had acquired the necessary know how from the strasbourg mechanic and monk quintenz who had invented the decimal scale in 1821 . in the course of the next thirty years the locksmith s workshop developed into a small factory . however the business stagnated when joachims died in 1874 . things started to improve again when frederik vogel a young businessman purchased the scales factory in 1888 . he expanded the product range and introduced the brand name seca which he had registered in 1897 . the company survived world war i and the great depression in the 20th century and then frederik vogel passed the management over to his son robert . robert vogel steered the company through world war ii and began with the successful reconstruction immediately after the end of the war . when robert vogel died in 1966 his son s nke joined the company . in 1970 s nke vogel decided in favour of a new corporate concept . since then focus has been on medical measuring and weighing on products which are needed for diagnosis and therapy purposes in medicine in order to determine the precise weight of a patient . the product portfolio has been consistently expanded and is available on all international markets . corporate structure edit seca gmbh & co. kg . has the following subsidiaries seca france semur en auxois france seca united kingdom birmingham great britain seca schweiz reinach switzerland seca mexico mexico city mexico seca north america west diamond bar usa seca north america east hanover usa seca nihon chiba city japan seca zhong guo hangzhou china products edit the range includes baby scales column scales flat scales multifunction and wheelchair scales bed and dialysis scales height measuring and measuring instruments this german corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this standards or measurement related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seca gmbh & oldid 712315925 categories companies of germanygerman brandsgerman company stubsstandards and measurement stubshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from april 2008all articles lacking reliable referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles 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 languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 28 march 2016 at 11 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view