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The Erhardt + Leimer Group specialises in system solutions and automation technology on moving webs and belts. Worldwide Monitoring, Control and inspection systems Erhardt + Leimer in the textile, paper, corrugated cardboard, foil, tire, rubber, non-woven and printing industry are used. The company is headquartered Leitershofen near Augsburg.

Contents •	 1 Corporate Structure •	 2 Company History •	 3 Products •	 4 commitment •	 5 External links

Corporate Structure Erhardt + Leimer is a family-owned by the daughter and the grandson of the founder, Hannelore Leimer (President) and Dr. Michael Proeller (CEO). In Europe, Asia and North and South America, the company is represented in 13 countries through its subsidiaries, sales offices and production facilities. Worldwide employs Erhardt + Leimer approximately 1,200 employees and in 2010 generated approximately €120 million in revenue.

Company History Erhardt + Leimer was founded in 1919 by Manfred Erhardt in Augsburg. Purpose of the company was initially the sale and service of industrial clocks and signals. 1925 Albert Leimer joined the company and began to build a fine mechanical workshop. After the death of Manfred Erhardt (1933) Leimer increasingly specialized in the development and manufacture of precision mechanical equipment for the textile industry.

1949 saw the development of fabric guide device for regulating the web run in the textile industry, and laid the foundation for the further growth of the company. In 1960, the business was extended to the paper and film industry. In 1977, Hannelore Leimer, daughter of the late Albert Leimer joined the management. Under her leadership, the company began to increasingly focus internationally.

In the late 1970s, the company employed around 700 people worldwide and had a dense network of subsidiaries, branches and agencies in all industrialised countries of the world. In the 1980s and 90s, the solutions to the tire, rubber, non-woven and printing industries were offered alongside the textile, paper and film industry. 1996, the management was led by Dr. Michael Proeller, a grandson of Albert Leimer.

2000 followed a groundbreaking shift into the introduction to the inspection and camera technology. A year later, the ELSIS camera for surface inspection was introduced. In 2003, Erhardt + Leimer's first fully digital web inspection system ELSCAN was launched at the Labelexpo in Brussels and was presented at Drupa in 2004 as a full service provider for web guiding and monitoring in the printing industry. With the acquisition of the product range of the Canadian Nyquist Systems in 2005 came the advancement in Erhardt + Leimer product portfolio. This was developed as E + L NYSCAN inspection technology further.

In recent years, the focus of activities have increasingly shifted to Asia. In Asia, the company generates about 35% of its total sales.

Products Application of the products of Erhardt + Leimer is the control, regulation and inspection of running webs and bands. Typical applications are; Edge to edge cut in the textile industry, the print image control in the printing industry and the automatic alignment of sheets in paper production. The product range covers the whole spectrum from single to complete system solutions. Annually Erhardt + Leimer produces about 5,000 controller systems and 10,000 individual components. With two exceptions; Nyscan and Cordaliner. All products carry the brand identity EL prefix (ELSIS, ELGUIDER, ELFEED).

Commitment Erhardt + Leimer is engaged in the fields of training and education. Currently recruiting annually from about 60 to 80 young people in the commercial and industrial sectors.

With the Albert Leimer Foundation, founded in 1986, the company promotes science and research at the university and the University of Augsburg by different prices: • Augsburg University Award for Spain - and Latin American Studies (every two years) • Augsburg University Award which is awarded annually to the most outstanding theses • Price of Albert Leimer Foundation for the Promotion of Gender Equality at the University of Augsburg Since 2010, the Albert Leimer Foundation also supports a particularly gifted students through a scholarship.

External links www.erhardt-leimer.com