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Leadec is the leading service specialist for the factories across the entire life cycle and related infrastructure. For more than 60 years industrial enterprises across the globe rely on Leadec’s know-how concerning complex processes in smart factories, e-mobility, and sustainable production and infrastructure.

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Leadec is the leading service specialist for the factories across the entire life cycle and related infrastructure. For more than 60 years industrial enterprises across the globe rely on Leadec’s know-how concerning complex processes in smart factories, e-mobility, and sustainable production and infrastructure.

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Leadec is a part of the Triton portfolio
Key highlights
Our vision
Strategy
Digitalization
ESG and CSR
Ratings
Our history
Corporate news
Your message

Leadec in brief

Legal form: BV & Co. KG
Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany
Board of Management: Markus Glaser-Gallion (CEO), Christian Geißler (CFO), Markus Hucko (COO)

22,500

Employees

internationally

>350

Sites

in 16 countries

>1.3

Sales

billion € (FY 2024)

1,000

Customers

on 4 continents

5,000

Contracts

for the entire life cycle of a factory

60+

Years

of experience

Leadec is a part of the Triton portfolio

Since 2016 Leadec has been owned by Triton.

Founded in 1997 and owned by its partners, Triton is a leading European mid-market sector-specialist investor. Triton focuses on investing in businesses that provide mission critical goods and services in its three core sectors of Business Services, Industrial Tech, and Healthcare. Triton has over 150 investment professionals and value creation experts across 11 offices and invests through three complementary “All Weather” strategies: Mid-Market Private Equity, Smaller Mid-Cap Private Equity, and Opportunistic Credit.

For further information: www.triton-partners.com/portfolio/leadec

Global leader

For servicing manufacturing plants, factories and related infrastructure

Proven business model

Resilience with diversified, recurring revenues

Operational and sales excellence

High order backlog and OPEX savings

Blue-chip customers

With high renewal rates and increasing share of wallet

Asset light and cash generative

With a flexible cost base and low capex

At the center of megatrends

Ideally positioned to benefit from ongoing outsourcing

Our vision

We are the leading service specialist for the factory of today and tomorrow.

Our comprehensive knowledge of the production processes and equipment in the manufacturing industry which we have gained over decades is the basis for our smart services for smart factories. We are firmly established in the automotive industry. Now it is time for us to utilize our expertise to capture other industries as well.

We have built up a strong platform for our digital growth, have sound and scalable business models for our balanced customer portfolio in mature and growth markets and are among the most attractive employers in our industry.

Portrait of Christian Geissler, CFO of the Leadec Group.

Christian Geißler, CFO Leadec

Leadec is a stand-alone company, with a strong track record in automotive, but diversifying and growing in manufacturing industries such as e-commerce, consumer goods and aerospace.

Our "Becoming Leading Edge" strategy

“Becoming Leading Edge” – that is what our strategy is called. To become leading edge, we have to grow profitably and professionalize our processes. For this purpose, the strategy is based on the following four pillars.

Leadec offers a dedicated portfolio of ten core services for the manufacturing industry along the life cycle of the factory and its corresponding infrastructure:

Production Planning & Optimization
Automation
Production IT
Electrical and Mechanical Installation
Relocation
Production Equipment Maintenance
Technical Cleaning
Technical Facility Management
Infrastructural Facility Management
Logistics

We will develop these service lines further globally with the aim of offering our core services equally in all regions. We integrate digital applications and business models.

The automotive industry will remain our home. But we already have scaled our successful recipe into adjacent markets. Related manufacturing industries such as aerospace, e-commerce or white goods offer great opportunities for increasing the share of new industries to over 40 percent. This means that we will have a more balanced customer portfolio, allowing us to benefit from opportunities outside the automotive industry:

Off-highway
Aerospace
Technology
Consumer goods
E-commerce
Food & beverage

Europe is our main market. Despite being a mature market, it still offers us many opportunities for expansion. This is where we want to continue to grow, for example in Spain or Portugal. In addition, we will particularly focus on Americas where we also expect strong growth because of the high investment in production plant and equipment. We are benefiting from the trend that, with the diversification of the supply chain, production is increasingly being set up locally again.

We invest in our own infrastructure and combine our business processes in one system, providing us with real-time data, also on mobile devices. A key lever here is our digital business platform Leadec.os, which has been implemented at many of our global customer sites. Our new HR connect global platform brings together data and processes centrally, thus accelerating all tasks related to HR work. Now – after our entire IT infrastructure, customer and service processes – all HR processes are also digitized and excellently positioned. We thus have common KPIs that not only show the past but also allow us to proactively control our business. We do not work harder but smarter by continuously improving our processes. By improving our productivity at our more than 350 sites, we will be more competitive.

Leadec's digitalization strategy

Leadec approaches digitization in its entirety using three steps:

The fundamental modernization of the own IT infrastructure
The harmonization and digitization of the own core business processes including the touch point with the customer
Value-creating digital services and new business models.

Factory of the future

Visual representation of two robot arms with connected icons.

ESG and CSR

Sustainability is firmly anchored into our operations and governance. We have set ourselves sustainability targets, release an annual sustainability report and we are part of the UN Global Compact. In addition, Leadec supports its industrial customers on their way to decarbonization and a circular economy. Our “Green Factory Solutions" comprise sustainable services that complement and expand Leadec’s portfolio in all service areas – from recording the carbon footprint to supporting energy audits and installing photovoltaic systems.

Green Factory Solutions

Graphic representation of a factory on a greenfield site.

"Negligible Risk" rated by Sustainalytics

The rating agency Sustainalytics rated Leadec's risk of significant financial impact from ESG factors as negligible with 8.4 points on a scale up to 100. In a global comparison, this places Leadec in rank 109 out of 15489. Leadec ranks 3rd percentile in global universe, 15th in commercial services and 2nd in business and support. The rating result of Sustainalytics takes into account the ESG risks that Leadec faces as a service specialist for the factory on the one hand and how the company deals with them on the other hand. Sustainalytics looks at ESG indicators from the following eight areas: Corporate Governance, Human Capital, Data Privacy and Security, Bribery and Corruption, Emissions, Effluents and Waste, Product Governance, Carbon (own operations), and Occupational Health & Safety.

Rating

Gold status in EcoVadis rating

With a score of 79 out of a possible 100 points, Leadec has achieved Gold status in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rating of the independent assessment platform EcoVadis. This places us in the top 3 % of all companies worldwide in the ranking. The audit covers the areas of environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement.

Rating

Our history

1962: Founding of the company (Kesselreinigungsgesellschaft Reichenberger & Co.) in Munich, Germany. Core activities: technical cleaning and maintenance
1985: Company renamed Deutsche Industriewartung GmbH & Co. KG (DIW)
2000: Voith acquires DIW and establishes the division Voith Industrial Services
2005: Expansion into America through the acquisition of Premier Group, Cincinnati, USA
2006: Majority takeover of Hörmann Industrietechnik, Kirchseeon, Germany
2009: Expansion into Asia through the establishment of company in China
2013: Takeover of ThyssenKrupp Services in UK
2016: Voith Industrial Services is purchased by private equity firm Triton
2017: Voith Industrial Services becomes Leadec
2018: Focus on core portfolio by sale of Veltec business (process industry)
2019: Integration of the engineering business unit of IPO.Plan, Leonberg, Germany (now IPO.Log)
2020: Acquisitions in Germany: IVG Göhringer, Holzgerlingen, Precis Maschinen und Anlagen Service GmbH, Brandenburg, and AVI GmbH, Hoyerswerda
2020: Acquisition of Diversified Automation (DA), Louisville, USA
2021: Acquisition of Sacarbi, Joinville, Brazil
2021: Acquisitions in Germany: Gunter Scholz Kommunikationstechnik, Herrnhut, Institut für Korrosions- und Schadensanalyse, Magdeburg and Schulz & Reichl Elektrobau GmbH, Roggentin
2021: Acquisition of Partners in Hygiene (PiH), Darlington, UK
2021: Acquisitions in the US: IMS of Belton, Cincinnati and Meiners Electric, Louisville
2022: Acquisition of Castrol Industrie und Service GmbH (subsidary of Castrol), Mönchengladbach, Germany
2022: Acquisition of Elmleigh Electrical Systems Limited, Leicester, UK
2022: Market entry France with Leadec SAS
2023: Acquisition of FISS Automatika, Debrecen, Hungary
2024: Market entry Spain and Portugal
2025: Acquisition of Servycat, Vic, Spain

Corporate news

A male and a female Leadec employee looking at a tablet and monitoring the production of cleaning agents.

04/08/2025

Leadec 2024 on growth path: Digitalization and sustainability as success factors

Stuttgart/Germany, 04/08/2025 – Leadec's sales increased to over 1.3 billion euros in the 2024 fiscal year. For the first time, solutions for decarbonization and the circular economy have exceeded the 100-million-euro revenue mark. The service specialist for factories and their infrastructure operates in 16 countries with around 22,500 employees.

A female and a male Leadec employee with a tablet inspecting pipes on a factory roof.

03/18/2025

Leadec sets new record in occupational safety: LTI rate of 1.0 in 2024

Stuttgart/Germany, 03/18/2025 - Safety is a top priority at Leadec. With a Lost Time Injury Rate (LTI rate) of 1.0, the company recorded the lowest accident frequency in its history in 2024. For every million hours worked, there was only one accident resulting in at least one day's absence.

Two Leadec employees looking at a tablet

02/25/2025

Leadec achieves gold in the EcoVadis rating

Stuttgart/Germany, 02/25/2025 - Leadec has achieved Gold status in the EcoVadis sustainability rating. This places the service specialist for factories, which operates in 16 countries, in the top 3 % of all companies worldwide in the ranking and in the top 1% of all companies within the industry.

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