It all started with a small shop established on February 19, 1919 by Manfred Erhardt for the repair and service of industrial clocks. Albert Leimer joined the company in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s he transformed the company into a key supplier of measuring and control equipment for the local textile industry which, at that time, was still a major player in the area. During the decades since the end of the war the company grew extensively and expanded its activities through an intelligent diversification and acquisition policy step by step to other sectors such as the paper, printing, tire, film and foil industries. The company’s key competences today are in automation, visualization and inspection of all processes which occur in any web converting industry.