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  • ABout the company
    Leadec is the leading global service specialist for factories across the entire life cycle and related infrastructure. What guides us? Our promise to our customers: We love your factory. That’s why we are there to assist you with our services at every phase of your production: from factory planning and optimization through installation, automation, and production maintenance to technical cleaning or facility management. You should be able to concentrate fully on your core business. We at Leadec will take care of the rest.
  • About the company

    Leadec is the leading global service specialist for factories across the entire life cycle and related infrastructure. What guides us? Our promise to our customers: We love your factory. That’s why we are there to assist you with our services at every phase of your production: from factory planning and optimization through installation, automation, and production maintenance to technical cleaning or facility management. You should be able to concentrate fully on your core business. We at Leadec will take care of the rest.

We love your factory

Global player and local partner

Industrial enterprises across the globe rely on Leadec’s know-how concerning complex processes in smart factories, e-mobility, and sustainable production and infrastructure. We build on 60 years of experience and never stand still. We offer our services from a single source at 350 locations on four continents. Often right on site in the plants and facilities. Our customers experience us as reliable partners, experienced experts, and creative pioneers. We listen, assume responsibility, develop new ideas, and invest a lot in order to become better: in the development of our organization, the expertise of our 23,000 employees, the digitalization of our processes, and our constructive and trusting collaborations.

Always a step ahead

Our innovation rate is high. With digitalized services, we support and cooperate with customers in advancing their transformation. For this, we keep up with the times and follow new technologies, use the findings for our technical services, and, in this way, offer direct added value. The result is individual solutions that we develop in close cooperation with the companies in manufacturing. We have been partnering with many of them for decades. Our customers know that we always go the extra mile for them.

Facts & figures

>23,000
Employees

globally

>350
Locations

on 4 continents

1.24
Sales

billion euro (2023)


Our corporate culture

From boiler cleaner to a leading technical service provider for the entire factory: Leadec has undergone a sweeping transformation over the last 60 years. And for that reason, we see every challenge as an opportunity to prove ourselves and pursue our growth strategy.

What makes us different

Industry focus

We know our way around your factory and your infrastructure. Discrete manufacturing is our home. We have been offering technical services for production – and everything that goes with it – for 60 years now.

Global network

We are represented at more than 350 locations throughout the world and have built up a wealth of know-how. Thanks to our global network, our expert knowledge is available at all times and we can always offer the best solution. Our quality standards apply throughout the world.

Factory of the future

We are pioneers of the digital shop floor and partners beyond that. In the factory ecosystem, we play the role of neutral process facilitator. Our industrial services are digitalized, integrated, open, and IoT-capable. The acquired data form the basis for further services. We make the factory fit for the future.

Single source

We bundle our comprehensive services and offer everything from a single source. This reduces the number of interfaces and allows our customers to concentrate on their actual core business.

The factory as a system

We consider the entire life cycle of a factory. This also applies to the costs. Instead of treating the maintenance costs in isolation, we take them into account in the factory planning stage. With the total cost of ownership assessment procedure, we offer proven cost and efficiency advantages. 

First-class team

Our employees are service specialists in the factory and the associated buildings. They stand for excellent planning and execution of our services.

Safety

We at Leadec attach great importance to occupational health and safety. For our company, the well-being of our employees, customers and business partners is a top priority. With the Group initiative "Safety – It's your life" we have set ourselves the goal of "zero."

Digitized processes

Our Leadec.os business platform records our processes digitally throughout and forms seamless interfaces to the customer's systems. This creates maximum transparency in the planning and provision of all services. The acquired data forms the basis for optimizing processes – on the way to the "factory of the future." 


Our owner

Since 2016 Leadec has been owned by Triton.

Triton is an international investment firm, founded in 1997. The company seeks to contribute to building better businesses for the longer term through partnership. Triton invests in medium-sized businesses with management located in Europe that fall within the Industrial, Business Services and Consumer/Health sectors. Triton funds’ approximately 180 investors include, among others, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and endowments. Triton includes environmental, social and governance criteria into investment considerations and decision-making processes which help to capture long-term value. Since its founding, Triton has completed more than 80 investments and supported more than 370 acquisitions.

For further information: https://www.triton-partners.com/

The most important milestones in our history

Evolving into a global & technical service champion in manufacturing
  • 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)
  • 2020: Acquisition of Diversified Automation (DA), Louisville, KY, USA
  • Until today: Focus on the manufacturing industry, expansion of the technical portfolio through acquisitions

Also part of the Leadec Group

Diversified Automation (USA)

Diversified Automation (DA) ideally completes Leadec's service portfolio with controls and software solutions for the parcel industry, a market segment thriving due to the growth of e-commerce. DA is today a leading independent automation player. They offer their system controls and software solutions to mechanical integrators serving global parcel and e-commerce companies such as UPS, FedEx and Amazon, with more than 140 experts based all across the country. Diversified Automation generates revenues of approx. 100 million US dollars per year. They possess strong expertise in hardware and software engineering and project management.

 

Diversified Automation

Meiners Electric (USA)

Meiners Electric is an electrical contractor headquartered in Louisville, KY, and has been in business since 1974. The company provides maintenance services, low and high voltage work and designs build electrical work. Meiners Electric employs over 100 people who serve their customers in the automotive, parcel, and food and beverage industries.

 

Meiners Electric

Elmleigh (UK)

Established in 1984, Elmleigh is today one of the leading full-service system integrators for automation systems in food processing and parcel sortation. Services include electrical and mechanical installations, ATEX installations, control panel assembly, project management, design, software, and control cabinet fabrication.

 

Elmleigh