articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . april 2015 wittur group type group of companies gmbh industry elevator industry component supplier founded 1968 in germany founder horst wittur headquarters wiedenzhausen germany area served worldwide key people patrik wohlhauser ceo frank schulkes cfo products elevator components brands wittur selcom revenue 588 m 2015 1 website wittur.com the wittur group with the operating entity wittur holding gmbh is a worldwide leading producer and supplier of elevator components . founded 1968 in germany the group is today present with various subsidiaries in europe asia and latin america . the headquarter is located in wiedenzhausen between munich and augsburg . contents 1 history 2 products 3 research & development r & d 4 external links 5 references history edit back in 1968 at the age of 26 horst wittur started the business by establishing wittur aufzugteile gmbh & co. in wiedenzhausen . at first the focus lay on the production of car doors as well as on trading with elevator components . however in the course of company acquisitions and integrations the trade with externally produced elevator components was replaced by selling in house produced parts . even the international expansion had an early start . in 1977 the production plant selcom s.p.a. today wittur s.p.a. was established in colorno italy followed by the plant selcom aragon today wittur elevator components s.a.u. in 1980 in zaragoza spain . at the same time trade companies were introduced in countries such as the netherlands france australia and hong kong and participations were acquired . 2 the first footprint in asia was set in 1995 by establishing the subsidiary suzhou selcom today wittur elevator components suzhou in china . in the course of years the production plant in suzhou china was steadily enlarged and by now more than 650 000 elevator doors are produced there on a yearly basis 2013 . 3 in 2000 wittur gained a foothold on the south american continent by acquiring soimet today wittur s.a. in argentina and establishing wittur ltda . in brazil . recent expansions concerning the production plants took place in 2009 in krupina slovakia and in 2010 in chennai india . on august 12 2015 wittur announced the initiative to merge with sematic 4 a group of companies active in the elevator components business . on april 1 2016 wittur announced the successful closing of the sematic group acquisition together with the appointment of a new ceo patrik wohlhauser . 5 gearless drive in a wittur mrl w line drive products edit wittur started its business with the production of elevator doors only and has developed itself over time to an enterprise offering complete elevators and producing a wide range of elevator components such as elevator doors car doors and landing doors lift machines safety devices especially overspeed governors and safety gears cars car slings shaft accessories complete elevator systems research & development r & d edit the centers of competence for r & d are divided by products and located in the following way doors italy & china elevator drives dresden germany safety devices and shaft accessories scheibbs austria cars car slings istanbul turkey complete elevator systems spain in addition wittur has r & d facilities of different sizes in every single plant starting from small test devices for doors in india through to test towers in austria and spain . external links edit website of the wittur group triton sells german elevator parts maker wittur to bain references edit 1 wittur.com february 2016 wittur.com wittur history elevator world india issue 3 volume 7 2014 wittur and sematic to merge in order to create a leading global supplier to the elevator industry wittur safety in motion . www.wittur.com . retrieved 2015 11 18 . wittur group appoints patrik wohlhauser as new ceo . www.wittur.com . retrieved 2016 04 01 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wittur & oldid 741267221 categories elevators1968 establishments in germany1960s establishmentshidden categories orphaned articles from april 2015all orphaned 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 26 september 2016 at 12 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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