博世力士乐收购Elmo运动控制公司

Bosch Rexroth to Acquire Elmo Motion Control
博世力士乐收购Elmo运动控制公司

Elmo Motion Control and Bosch Rexroth (owned by Bosch Group) have signed a merger agreement in which Bosch Rexroth acquires Elmo’s entire activities, assets and staff. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the Israeli newspaper Calcalist mentioned a tag price of $700 million for the deal. The transaction is subject to antitrust approvals. Elmo Motion Control is based on Petach-Tikva, near Tel Aviv. It develops and produces electrical high-end servo drives and motion controls for industrial automation.

Elmo运动控制公司和博世力士乐公司（隶属于博世集团）签署了一项合并协议，博世力士乐公司收购Elmo公司的全部活动、资产和员工。收购价格没有披露，但以色列报纸Calcalist表示该交易的标价为7亿美元。该交易须经反垄断批准。Elmo运动控制公司的总部设在特拉维夫附近的佩塔提科瓦（Petach-Tikva），致力于开发和生产适用于工业自动化领域的电气高端伺服驱动器和运动控件。

Elmo is planned to remain as an Israel entity, with local management and retaining the current staff of 330 employees. Bosch said its intentions are to enhance Elmo’s capabilities of developing and manufacturing the most advanced motion and servo control products. “There is continuously growing demand for smart automation and Industry 4.0 solutions,” said Thomas Fechner, Head of the Bosch Rexroth Automation and Electrification Solutions Business Unit. “We are strengthening our portfolio both organically and through acquisitions.”

Elmo公司计划继续作为一个以色列实体，采用本地化管理，并保留现有的330名员工。博世表示，其意图是加强Elmo公司开发和制造最先进的运动和伺服控制产品的能力。博世力士乐自动化和电气化解决方案业务部负责人Thomas Fechner表示：“市场对智能自动化和工业4.0解决方案的需求与日俱增，我们正在通过有机方式以及收购来加强我们的产品组合。”

“Factory automation is a clear focus topic at Bosch Rexroth. Elmo’s technology enables us to integrate drives the size of a smartphone into robots or autonomous transport vehicles, for example,” says Fechner. “Elmo technologies thus open up new fields of application that pose special technological challenges, such as autonomous transport vehicles, service robotics, or the decentralized arrangement of drives in machines.”

“毫无疑问，工厂自动化是博世力士乐的一个发展重点。Elmo的技术使我们能够将智能手机大小的驱动器集成到机器人或自动运输车辆中。”Fechner说，“因此，Elmo技术开辟了新的应用领域，可以应对特殊的技术挑战，比如自动运输车辆、服务机器人或机器驱动器的分散配置。”

Elmo Motion Control specializes in sophisticated, yet compact servo drives and motion control for advanced machines in the segments semiconductor, electronic manufacturing, electrical industry, robotics, medical, automated guided vehicles (AGV), automatic warehousing, and the packaging and food industry. Elmo was founded in 1988 by the CEO and owner Haim Monhait. In addition to the main location in Israel, the company maintains an assembly site in Poland.

Elmo运动控制公司专门为半导体、电子制造、电气工业、机器人、医疗、自动导引车、自动仓储以及包装和食品工业等领域的先进机器提供复杂而紧凑的伺服驱动器和运动控制。Elmo公司于1988年由首席执行官兼所有者Haim Monhait创立。除了在以色列的主工厂外，该公司还在波兰设有一个装配工厂。