Product category:
Machine Safety Monitoring and Control
News Release from: Cedes
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2008
Safety and automation business to be
sold
Rockwell Automation to acquire products, technology, development engineering, marketing, sales and distribution.
Swiss safety light curtain and optoelectronic sensor specialist Cedes is set to sell its safety and automation business unit to Rockwell Automation The sale involves products, technology, development engineering, marketing, sales and distribution
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cedes offers two monitoring systems which are amongst the smallest in their class in the world.
Production of safety and automation products will continue at Cedes' Landquart headquarters in the east of Switzerland.
As a provider of innovative optical sensor technologies, Cedes has grown from a one-man operation in 1986 to an international company with almost 400 employees worldwide.
The founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cedes, Beat De Coi, explains that the deal enables Cedes-branded products to be far more widely distributed around the world.
"Cedes has grown so successfully because we have always been innovative, looked to the future and were able to deliver what the customer wanted".
"We realised that the best way to expand sales of our excellent safety and automation products, was to combine our capabilities with Rockwell Automation's global strength in this branch", he adds.
"For 20 years, we have specialised in developing innovative optical sensor technologies for a wide range of applications, including industrial safety and automation markets".
"As we combine these capabilities with Rockwell Automation's global leadership in industrial automation control and information systems, this will enable more manufacturers around the world to help protect their workers from accidents involving machinery and equipment", says De Coi.
Cedes' recently confirmed plans to extend its Landquart headquarters and increase its workforce, remain unchanged.
The company requires the extra space and manpower as it concentrates on expanding its two remaining and interconnected elevators and doors and gates business units.
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