Product category:
Level and tank contents instrumentation
News Release from: Afriso Eurogauge
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 February 2003
Over 130 years of instrument engineering
Eurogauge in the UK is the specialist level control and measurement centre within the Afriso-Eurogauge Group: this continues with total capability in liquid and solid level products for all industries
Founded in 1869 by Adalbert Fritz and his son Franz in Germany as the AFRISO - Werk Company, (AFRISO= Adelbert FRItz and Son) the company was a specialist manufacturer of mercury-in-glass thermometers: later capsule type pressure gauges were added to the product range In common with many German companies, after the upheavals of the 1940s, the company moved to a new base in the south of Germany near Stuttgart, where a period of rapid post-war expansion took place
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 2 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Guided Micropulse continuous level measurement
The Afriso-Euro-Index PMG 01 and PMG 02 guided Micropulse level measuring systems are used for the continuous measurement of distances, volumes and levels of liquids, powders and granulates
AKCP joins with M-Plify SA
AKCP - the world leader in SNMP based remote monitoring products - has joined with Luxembourg based M-Plify to announce the integration of sensorProbe with AlarmTILT!
New distributor for CompACT electric actuators
AMOT has a new distributor partnership with AMG Actuators of Chichester, where Director Martin Breen has a long-established expertise in actuators, for the AMOT CompACT electric actuators range
During this time subsidiary companies were established in France, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and the UK, initially as sales offices, later with engineering facilities to meet local market requirements.
The European aspect of our Group was highlighted by the choice of the Euro name for every newly established subsidiary company with the addition of either -index or -gauge to link the name with its core business - a measuring scale or instrument.
1962 saw the establishment of Eurogauge Company Limited, initially as the UK sales office for the range of mechanical, pneumatic and electronic tank contents gauges and electronic level switches, from the German parent company.
Rapid success in the UK market place, particularly in the food manufacturing industries, necessitated the start of local manufacture in East Grinstead, in West Sussex, close to Gatwick Airport, where the company acquired new premises in 1966 and erected a purpose-built factory to house local manufacturing, design and test facilities.
Today, the Group is still privately owned with a turnover of approximately 66 million Euro, and employs some 600 people in its 12 member companies.
There are four European manufacturing establishments, one being Eurogauge in the UK, which through their specialist knowledge after 30 years experience in electronic level measurement, became the Group world-wide point of contact for electronic level switches and level indicators.
In the global market place the Group has recently added the Afriso name to Eurogauge, and we are now known as Afriso Eurogauge Ltd.
We have also acquired the former UK sister company Afriso EC Gauges, from Colchester, adding a complete range of pressure and temperature instruments to our level products.
• Afriso Eurogauge: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Processingtalk email newsletter
• Processingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
