German manufacturing and services conglomerate
Friedhelm Loh Group is a German manufacturing and services group headed by Friedhelm Loh. It is headquartered in Haiger, Germany and has offices and production centres worldwide.
Friedhelm Loh Group grew out of a business founded in 1961 by Friedhelm's father Rudolf Loh that manufactured and sold the "first mass-produced enclosures for electrical control systems".[1]
The group employs more than 11,600 people (2021) and generates revenues of € 2.5 billion (2021).[2] The major companies in the Group's portfolio are Rittal, EPLAN, Cideon, LKH, Stahlo, and German Edge Cloud.[3]
Companies within the Group
Companies in the group and their products include:
- Rittal: enclosures, power distribution systems, IT infrastructure, software and services[1]
- Stahlo: steel service centres
- EPLAN: Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software
- LKH: plastic products in the electrical goods, automotive, manufacturing and construction sectors
- Cideon: engineering process services
- German Edge Cloud: cloud computing
- Digital Technology Poland: software and hardware Research & Development [4][5]
- Loh Services: services for other companies within the group, such as IT and HR[6]
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