Sponsors and exhibitors 2023

Under a global umbrella brand, Phoenix Contact offers innovative products, solutions and digitalization expertise for the electrification, networking, and automation of all sectors of the economy and infrastructure. The family-run company empowers industry and society to transform into a sustainable world with long-term growth prospects for everyone. The core business has been structured to create three business segments. In new fields of business, Phoenix Contact is also tapping the potential of digitalization, electrification and the mobility revolution above and beyond its core business. 

Today, Phoenix Contact employs around 20,300 people worldwide, with sales of €2.97 billion in 2021. Worldwide, Phoenix Contact manufactures in a production network spanning 11 countries in which the level of vertical integration varies. More than 50 sales subsidiaries around the world belong to the Phoenix Contact Group, ensuring proximity to both markets and customers. 

Together with customers and partners, Phoenix Contact develops solutions for the future using pioneering connection and automation technology. The integrated concepts include engineering and services, and are applied in transportation infrastructure, e-mobility, for clean water, regenerative energy and intelligent supply networks, and in energy-efficient machine building and systems manufacturing.

The product range consists of components and system solutions for generating, transporting, and distributing energy, for device manufacturing and machine building, and for control cabinet building. A diverse range of modular and special terminal blocks, PCB terminal blocks and connectors, cable connection technology, and installation accessories offers innovative components. Electronic interfaces and power supplies, automation systems based on Ethernet and wireless technology, open control systems, safety solutions for humans, machines, and data, along with surge protection systems, all provide smart solutions for system installers and operators, for facilities, and for urban and traffic concepts.

Phoenix Contact supports the digital transformation with products, systems, and solutions. Thanks to the experience gained from in-house machine building, the company is familiar with the requirements of digitalization and continuous data flow – from engineering and production to installation and maintenance – throughout the entire product life cycle.

Product innovations and specific solutions for individual customer requirements are created in the development facilities at our locations in Germany, China, and the USA. Numerous patents emphasize the fact that many developments from Phoenix Contact are unique. Working closely with universities and scientific institutes, Phoenix Contact researches technologies of the future such as e-mobility and digitalization and transforms the findings into marketable products, systems, and solutions.

The HARTING Technology Group is one of the world's leading providers of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and Power and has 14 production plants and 44 sales companies. Moreover, the company also produces retail checkout systems, electromagnetic actuators for automotive and industrial series use, charging equipment for electric vehicles, as well as hardware and software for customers and applications in automation technology, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation engineering. In the 2021/22 business year, some 6,500 employees generated sales of EUR 1,059 million.

Strip electroplating is our passion. Our know-how is based on many years of experience from numerous realized projects.

Every project brings new challenges, which we are happy to meet. That is why our services go far beyond the actual plating: We design new plants or develop new electrolyte systems together with our customers. In this way, we combine the entire spectrum required for the planning, construction and operation of first-class continuous coating plants. We are 100% independent of external know-how suppliers, can work more cost-effectively and guarantee the shortest delivery times.

Continuous improvement of our performance is not a by-product of our work. We use all our know-how to, among other things, continuously minimize the use of raw materials, further optimize our plants and thus ultimately save costs. The complete automation of our processes is an important goal for us. That is why we are constantly investing in the modernization of our machinery and in new equipment.

PEM is at home in the heart of the Auvergne region. From the very beginning, the special features of the landscape have prompted us to concern ourselves with environmental protection issues. Our goal has always been to minimize the impact of our work on the environment. Minimizing the amount of waste during the entire production process is a matter of course for us, and our waste water facilities fall far short of the official requirements.

The focus is always on the satisfaction of our customers, whom we regard as partners. Our development department works on customized solutions for your project. Our laboratories are specially equipped to coat prototypes and pilot series of your products, even in very small quantities, and to evaluate them promptly in our quality control department.

We are your coating partner on the way to the optimal product.

Single Pair Ethernet is the infrastructure foundation that makes IIoT and Industry 4.0 possible. The SPE Industrial Partner Network, based in Rahden in Westphalia, is an equal alliance of companies that promote single pair Ethernet technology as the basis for fast and successful growth of IIoT (Industrial Ethernet of Things). HARTING, TE Connectivity, HIROSE, Würth Electronics, LEONI, MURR Elektronik and Softing are the founding members of the SPE Industrial Partner Network.

For future users, we are the first point of contact for all questions relating to the structure of SPE networks and devices. We give clear recommendations for the development of future IIoT applications and are the central information and exchange platform. By bundling our competencies, we give users investment security to rely on this technology.

The Würth Elektronik eiSos Group is a manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components for the electronics industry and technology enabler for future-oriented electronic solutions and one of the largest European manufacturers of passive components and is active in 50 countries. Production sites in Europe, Asia and North America supply the growing number of customers worldwide. The product range includes EMC components, inductors, transformers, HF components, varistors, capacitors, resistors, crystals, oscillators, power modules, wireless power transfer, LEDs, sensors, connectors, power supply elements, switches, buttons, connection technology, fuse holders and solutions for wireless data transmission. Würth Elektronik eiSos is part of the Würth Group, the world market leader for assembly and fastening technology.

AAT Aston GmbH has been one of the leading distribution companies in the field of cable assembly and electronic assembly manufacturing for over 50 years. 

Our current focus is on the technologies of additive manufacturing (3D printing) and low-pressure injection molding (hot melt). 

Do you have a task in this regard? Do you have an idea? We will be at your side to advise you right from the start. 

Benefit from our experts and our very close cooperation with the manufacturers of the corresponding equipment (3D printer & hotmelt equipment) 

and consumables (special resins 3D & hotmelt adhesives). 

Challenge us - we look forward to it!

Copper materials form the basis in the many applications without which a modern world today can no longer do. 

Boway Deutschland GmbH offers high-quality, state-of-the-art copper-based rolled products.

Boway was founded in 1993 in Ningbo, China and today has nine production sites in China, Germany, Canada and Vietnam, each with state-of-the-art machinery.

Boway Germany supplies rolled products in copper and copper alloys in Europe, focusing on high-performance alloys for the connector and semiconductor industries. These materials are characterized by excellent physical, mechanical and technological properties in addition to good processability.

Thanks to our high-end manufacturing facilities according to European standards and many years of know-how, we can offer you tailor-made alloys, conditions, surfaces including suitable coatings (e.g. hot-dip tinning) for your application. Our products are manufactured with the tightest tolerances according to the latest state of the art. Our sister companies also manufacture products with electroplated coatings in Sn, Ni and silver.

Cubicure GmbH develops, produces and distributes industrial 3D printing solutions for polymer parts. Their Hot Lithography process enables the unprecedented additive manufacturing of tens of millions of resilient precision parts per year. With their materials ThermoBlast, Connection FR and Evolution FR, high-precision electronic components go into series production via 3D printing.

Gerweck GmbH Oberflächentechnik is one of the leading service companies for galvanic strip and single part plating. With competent employees decades of experience and state-of-the-art electroplating equipment Gerweck supplies customers from a wide range of industries. At the company's own prototype electroplating line customers are accompanied from the early stages of new projects and supported with unique expert know-how right through to series production. In order to meet the demands of dynamic markets, the focus is on digitalisation, automation and the technological further development of production lines, in addition to the latest analysis technology and environmental protection.

METALS ARE OUR WORLD! At G.RAU GmbH & Co. KG, the focus has always been on metal processing and has been for over 140 years! We are a globally operating medium-sized company with locations in Pforzheim and Rechberghausen, one in Costa Rica and a subsidiary in the USA. Approximately 700 employees develop, produce, coat and distribute strips, tubes and wires made of precious metals, special alloys as well as composite materials, precision parts and complex assemblies. Our customers include well-known companies in the automotive supply industry, medical technology and electrical engineering.

Atotech, a brand within the Materials Solutions Division of MKS Instruments, develops leading process and manufacturing technologies for advanced surface modification, electroless and electrolytic plating, and surface finishing. Applying a comprehensive systems-and-solutions approach, Atotech’s portfolio includes chemistry, equipment, software, and services for innovative and high-technology applications. These solutions are used in a wide variety of end-markets, including datacenter, consumer electronics and communications infrastructure, as well as in numerous industrial and consumer applications such as automotive, heavy machinery, and household appliances. With its well-established innovative strength and industry-leading global TechCenter network, MKS delivers pioneering solutions through its Atotech brand – combined with unparalleled on-site support for customers worldwide. For more information about Atotech, please visit us at atotech.com.

Rosenberger, founded in 1958, is a family-owned company with more than 14,200 employees worldwide and ranks among the leading manufacturers globally of standard and customer-specific connectivity solutions in high frequency, high voltage and fibre optic technology.

The product range covers RF coaxial products, fibre optic products and cable assemblies for applications in industrial and automotive electronics, mobilecom and telecommunication, data systems, medical electronics, industrial test & measurement electronics or aerospace engineering and defense electronics.  

Rosenberger develops and manufactures innovative connectivity solutions for industrial electronics, e.g.RoProxCon connectors for contactless data and power transmission or Single Pair Ethernet connector systems for efficient data transmission in industrial automation.

Rosenberger is certified to IATF 16949:2016, DIN EN 9100, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001.