Turck is a German manufacturer in the industrial
automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...
sector. The
sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon.
In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends ...
,
fieldbus
Fieldbus is the name of a family of industrial computer networks used for real-time distributed control. Fieldbus profiles are standardized by the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61784/61158.
A complex automated industrial ...
,
interface
Interface or interfacing may refer to:
Academic journals
* ''Interface'' (journal), by the Electrochemical Society
* ''Interface, Journal of Applied Linguistics'', now merged with ''ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics''
* '' Inte ...
and connection technology provider is represented worldwide with around 4650 employees in more than 30 subsidiaries and sales partners in a further 60 countries.
Organization
The Turck Group is mainly managed by the two companies Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG in Mülheim an der Ruhr - responsible for sales and marketing - and Werner Turck GmbH & Co. KG in Halver - responsible for development and production. The managing directors of Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG are Christian Wolf and Christian Pauli. Werner Turck GmbH. Co KG has been managed by Michael Gröbner since December 2019. The Turck Group is mainly managed by the two companies Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG in Mülheim an der Ruhr - responsible for sales and marketing - and Werner Turck GmbH & Co. KG in Halver - responsible for development and production. The managing directors of Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG are Christian Wolf and Christian Pauli. Werner Turck GmbH. Co KG has been managed by Michael Gröbner since December 2019.
In addition to the total of four locations in Germany, more than 30 other independent subsidiaries belong to the Turck Group worldwide. The largest locations include the subsidiaries in the USA (Turck Inc. in Minneapolis) and China (Turck Tianjin Sensor Co., Ltd.).
History
At the beginning of the 1960s, the brothers Hans and Werner Turck founded the company, starting off with two employees, a seed capital of 20,000
German Mark
The Deutsche Mark (; English: ''German mark''), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" (), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002. In English, it was ...
s and the idea of automating manufacturing processes through electronic components. Shortly after, their partner Hermann Hermes joined the young company.
Turck's early international orientation dates back to 1975, which was marked by the foundation of Turck Inc. in
Minneapolis
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, USA. Turck took over a measuring instrument factory in 1989, based in Beierfeld, Saxony, and thus entered into East European markets. A sales and production company was founded in 1995 in Tianjin, China, for the Asian market.
On 10 July 2015, barely three months after Werner Turck, his brother Hans Turck passed away as the second founder of the company.
Products
The automation supplier's product portfolio includes around 15,000 products from the fields of sensor and connection technology as well as fieldbus and interface technology. In addition to individual components for machine builders and end users - such as sensors, remote I/O stations or quick connectors - Turck also offers systems for image processing, radio frequency identification (RFID) or pick-to-light applications.
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Manufacturing companies of Germany
German brands