HARTING announces cooperation with the PerFact Group
Published on : Monday 18-11-2019
The HARTING Technology Group is one of the worlds leading providers of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and Power.
Espelkamp/Herford, November 15, 2019 – The proprietors of the HARTING Technology Group have expanded the scope of their entrepreneurial activities and will now be active as a partner of PerFact, the software development company, as from December 31, 2019.
The managing partners of the PerFact Group, Dr Robert Rae and Dr Ján Jockusch, welcome this step explicitly. They perceive the cooperation agreement forged with the HARTING Technology Group as offering ideal development opportunities.
The HARTING Technology Group is one of the world's leading providers of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and Power and has 14 production plants and 44 sales companies. Moreover, the company also produces retail checkout systems, electromagnetic actuators for automotive and industrial series use, charging equipment for electric vehicles, as well as hardware and software for customers and applications in automation technology, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation engineering. In the 2017/18 business year, some 5,000 employees generated sales of EUR 762 million.
Since it was founded by Wilhelm and Marie Harting in 1945, HARTING has been 100 % family-owned. A management transition has taken place from the second to the third generation of the family, in accordance with the vision to remain an independent family business. In October 2015, Philip Harting took over the executive chairman position from his father Dietmar, who is still a board member and focussed on the future and new technologies. Philip Harting now leads the Techology Group together with his mother Margrit, member of the board and partner, his sister Maresa Harting-Hertz, personally liable partner and board member of the Finance and Purchasing department, and other non-family managers.