Sick, provider of sensor-based automation solutions, and the Swiss measurement technology specialist Endress+Hauser are launching a strategic partnership for process automation. With immediate effect, customers will benefit from a broader product portfolio that will be distributed from a single source via the global Endress+Hauser Sales Centres.
The two companies are joining forces to provide their customers with even better support and drive forward new technological solutions for the decarbonisation of the process industry. With the Joint venture „Endress+Hauser Sick GmbH+Co. KG“ development and production of analytical measurement technology and gas flow measurement will be strengthened and the range of solutions further expanded. Sick is consistently focusing on its core business of factory and logistics automation, enabling it to better serve global customer demand for automation and digitalisation.
Start of partnership for process customers worldwide
Following the signing of the contract in summer 2024 and a subsequent phase of preparation and antitrust review, the strategic partnership will now come into effect. Around 800 Sick employees in 42 countries in sales and service of the global Sick Sales and Service Units with a focus on „Cleaner Industries“ will move to Endress+Hauser. In the Endress+Hauser Sales Centres, they sell product solutions in the field of analytical measurement technology and gas flow measurement to additional process customers worldwide and can thus reach additional markets and open up new fields of application. For customers, this means that their trusted contacts at Endress+Hauser are available for advice, sales and service of process automation solutions.
The strategic partnership also includes the operation of a joint venture, which will strengthen and further expand the range of process solutions for decarbonisation. „Endress+Hauser SICK GmbH+Co KG“ develops and produces product solutions for analytical measurement technology and gas flow measurement with around 730 employees from the former Sick „Cleaner Industries“ business unit. The company's gas flow meters enable, for example the switch to low-emission and also non-fossil energy sources, The process analysers can be used to reliably monitor emissions. As part of the partnership, the product solutions manufactured there will be distributed by Endress+Hauser with immediate effect. SICK and Endress+Hauser will each hold a 50 per cent stake in the joint venture from March 2025.
Since the company was founded in 1946, Sick's core business has been in factory and logistics automation, where over 80 per cent of sales are generated. This area remains unaffected by the strategic partnership in process automation and customers can be served even better thanks to this focussing.
Source: Sick
