Endress+Hauser continues on the path to growth. Over the past five years the number of employees at the Reinach location in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft has grown by 20 % to more than 2,000. At the same time, the number of units produced has significantly increased and the digital solutions portfolio has expanded. In order to simultaneously meet the new demands of the work environment, vocational training positions and digitalisation, the measurement and automation technology specialist invested 60 million Swiss francs in the Reinach campus.
After beginning work on the foundations in 2019, Endress+Hauser celebrated the opening of the nearly 150 m long building in Reinach on 1 July 2022. The construction plan included the use of available property and an existing building located on Kägenstrasse. The new facility boasts more than 25,000 m2 of space. and is home to Endress+Hauser Flow, the product center for flow measuring technology, as well as Endress+Hauser Digital Solutions, which is responsible within the Group for all issues related to digital communication and automation solutions. The first wave of employees has already moved into the facility.
Production expansion and additional jobs
With the new building, Endress+Hauser is responding to the ongoing demand for high-quality instrumentation and solutions for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments in the process industry. Liquids and gases must always be monitored, measured and settled with a high degree of accuracy. This is being driven, among other things, by increasingly strict government regulations and growing requirements on quality and environmental protection around the world. Endress+Hauser Flow has reacted to this development, expanded its portfolio and doubled the number of units produced over the past decade. The consequence is continuous expansion of the production capacity and the creation of additional jobs. With the most recent developments, the family company is making a clear commitment to Reinach and the Basel region where the Group is firmly rooted.
Focus on collaboration
As a result of the expansion, around 1,050 employees will move across all buildings. The additional space will create more collectively used workspace. Special coworking zones such as Innovation Labs or project zones offer different departments the opportunity to collaborate on longer-term projects. Employees can choose between a permanent or shared desks.
Endress+Hauser is furthermore using the new building to align its ongoing business growth even more closely with its ecological and social responsibilities. In light of the goal of the sustainability strategy to operate its buildings in Reinach in a CO2-neutral manner by the year 2030, high value is being placed on climate-friendly facilities management. As part of the energy concept, for example, waste heat is stored in a stratified storage tank for warm water and then used for heating. A comprehensive energy monitoring system using instruments from the company’s own portfolio also helps to continuously optimize operation of the buildings. Large photovoltaic systems were installed on the roof of the new building.
