ABB Group has acquired B&R - the largest independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide – for an undisclosed amount. B&R, founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer is headquartered in Eggelsberg, Austria, employs more than 3,000 people, including about 1,000 R&D and application engineers. It operates across 70 countries, generating sales of more than $600 million (2015-16) in the $20 billion machine and factory automation market segment. “The combination will result in an ...
The robotics giant ABB Group has acquired Austrian firm B&R for an undisclosed sum. B&R is based in Eggelsberg, Austria had 2015-16 revenues of more than $600 millionm and employs around 3,000 people, of which around a third are R&D and application engineers. The firm produces open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation in industries including plastics, packing, food and beverage. "This is a perfect fit and will make us the only industrial automation provider offering customers the entire spectrum of technology and software solutions around measurement, control, actuation, robotics, digitalisation and electrification,” said Ulrich Spiesshofer, ABB Group CEO.