Advantage Brands
Bently Nevada is the world's leading brand in machinery protection and condition monitoring, founded in 1961 by Don Bently in Minden, Nevada, USA. Acquired by GE in 2002 and now part of Baker Hughes, the company has set the de facto industry standard for rotating equipment monitoring across oil & gas, power generation, and heavy industry. With more than 60 years of innovation and over 1 million installed proximity probes worldwide, Bently Nevada combines high-precision eddy-current sensor technology with sophisticated signal processing to deliver 24/7 asset protection.
MTL Instruments, headquartered in Luton, England, is one of the world's most respected brands for intrinsic safety (IS) barriers, surge protection, and fieldbus infrastructure in hazardous areas. Founded in 1971, MTL has been part of Eaton's Crouse-Hinds division since 2010. MTL products are specified wherever a measurement or control signal must cross from a hazardous Zone 0/1/2 area into a safe-area control system — petrochemical plants, offshore platforms, pharmaceutical reactors, and gas-metering skids.
Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is Europe's largest industrial automation company and a global leader in digital industries. Founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens, the company pioneered the Simatic PLC line that defines modern factory automation. The Siemens industrial portfolio spans PLCs, drives, motors, SIMOTION motion control, SIRIUS switching devices, SITRANS process instrumentation, and the MindSphere industrial cloud — making it the broadest single-brand offering in industrial automation.
VEGA Grieshaber KG, founded in 1959 in Schiltach, Germany, is a global leader in level, point level, and pressure measurement for the process industries. With more than 60 years of sensor innovation, VEGA is the world's largest family-owned manufacturer of radar, ultrasonic, capacitive, and hydrostatic measurement technology. VEGA instruments are specified wherever liquids, bulk solids, or aggressive media must be measured reliably — from chemical reactors and water reservoirs to grain silos and mining slurry tanks.
Balluff GmbH, founded in 1921 in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Germany, is a leading global manufacturer of sensor and connectivity solutions for factory automation. With over 100 years of innovation, Balluff specializes in inductive, photoelectric, capacitive, and magnetic sensors; RFID industrial identification; IO-Link networking; and machine vision systems. Balluff products are specified in automotive assembly, packaging, material handling, machine tool, and electronics manufacturing — anywhere that reliable object detection and industrial networking are required.
Schmersal is a global leader in industrial safety switchgear and automation solutions. Founded in 1945 in Wuppertal, Germany, Schmersal provides safety products, systems, and services for machine and personnel protection in automated production environments.
Endress+Hauser (E+H) is a global leader in industrial process measurement and automation, founded in 1953 in Lörrach, Germany, by Georg H. Endress and Ludwig Hauser. The family-owned company now operates in more than 50 countries and is the worldwide market leader in level, flow, and liquid analysis instrumentation. E+H's portfolio covers the full process measurement chain — from 4-wire laboratory analyzers to 2-wire loop-powered HART transmitters — and is the default specification in most EPC contractor instrument indexes for oil & gas, chemical, water, food, and pharmaceutical projects.
SCHUNK, officially known as Xiongke in Chinese market, was founded in 1945 by Friedrich Schunk in Lauffen/Neckar near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world’s leading family-owned enterprise specializing in clamping, gripping technology and robot end-of-arm tools, operating independently from the diversified Schunk Group founded in 1913 (focused on carbon ceramics and environmental simulation materials)ca.schunk....
igus, full legal name igus SE & Co. KG, is a 100% family-owned German enterprise founded on October 15, 1964 by Günter Blase and Margret Blase in Cologne, Germany. As the global pioneer and market leader of motion plastics, igus develops maintenance-free high-performance polymer components for all moving machine parts. The brand name "igus" derives from the German term Industrie-Spritzguss, meaning industrial injection molding, reflecting its core technology base of customized wear-resistant engineering plastics. Its core brand slogan is igus improves what moves.
Bürkert Fluid Control Systems (commonly known as Bürkert) was founded in 1946 by Christian Bürkert in Ingelfingen, Germany. It is a fully family-owned independent enterprise and a global leader in fluid measurement, control and regulation technology, with over 70 years of expertise in liquid and gas process fluid solutions。
Founded on January 2, 1946 in Klingenberg, Germany by Alexander Wiegand and Philipp Kachel, WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG is a fully family-owned German enterprise and the world’s leading manufacturer of industrial process measurement and calibration technology, with over 75 years of experience in precision sensor R&D and manufacturing. Its core brand motto is Smart in sensing
Founded in Munich, Germany in 1980 by Bernhard Erdl, PULS GmbH is a fully family-owned enterprise and the world’s undisputed market & technology leader for DIN rail industrial switched-mode power supplies. For over 40 years, PULS has exclusively focused on complete industrial DC power supply solutions and has repeatedly received Frost & Sullivan’s Global Technology Leadership Award for DIN rail power supplies
Founded in the United States in 1911, Eaton Corporation is a global diversified power management group, with electrical power quality solutions as one of its core business segments. Eaton ranks second worldwide and holds the No.1 market share of UPS systems in China, acting as a leading global supplier of critical power protection solutions。
Founded on June 22, 1946 in Wenden, Germany, EMG Elektro Mechanik GmbH is a flagship subsidiary of European industrial group elexis. With over 75 years of expertise in continuous strip automation control, EMG ranks as the global market leader in strip guiding systems, on-line quality inspection, electro-hydraulic servo drives and heavy-duty safety brake components. Its core brand motto is Perfecting your Performance。
Founded in 1849 by Carl Johann Freudenberg in Weinheim, Germany, Freudenberg SE is a long-established fully family-owned global diversified technology group with a 177-year heritage. Employing over 51,000 staff worldwide and operating across more than 60 countries, the group generates annual revenue exceeding 10 billion euros. Owned collectively by over 320 descendants of the founding family without external public capital, Freudenberg adheres to a long-term R&D and sustainability strategy with its core brand mission Innovating TogetherFreudenber
Founded on April 22, 1922 by Joseph Siat in Benfeld, Alsace, France, SOCOMEC (official Chinese name: Sugaomei Sokeman) is a century-old independent family-owned low-voltage electrical group with no external capital holdings. It specializes in full-lifecycle solutions for power continuity, electrical safety and energy efficiency of low-voltage power grids, under the core brand motto When energy mattersSocomec.