Lenze is one of the most innovative companies in Germany and employs approximately 3,100 staff throughout the world. Around 300 of these are employed in research and development, working on products, solutions, systems and services for mechanical and electronic drives as well as complete automation systems.

Company profile
Since we are world-wide specialists in drive and automation technology, we understand our customers' needs in solving their problems. We use our know-how to develop the best total solution jointly with our customers. Everything is done to identify and exploit the customer's existing potential for value creation.

During the financial year 2010/2011 (1st May to 30th April), the turnover at Lenze was € 567 million. The company's head office is at Hamelin in Germany where the company was founded by Hans Lenze in 1947. Our largest sites are located at Extertal (Germany), Asten (Austria), Shanghai (China) and Uxbridge (USA). By locating our own companies and sales and service partners in more than 60 countries, we are right there - where our customers need us!

Lenze is a public limited company under European law (SE = Societas Europaea). At the same time, the company structure is such that it operates in the spirit of a family business. The mutual esteem among the staff is tangible, as is their high level of commitment.

Our products
Our product range includes frequency inverters, servo drives, drive motors, motors, clutches and brakes, connection technology and automation solutions, including controllers, industrial PCs, engineering software, visualisation, communication and I/O systems. Lenze is one of the first specialists in drive technology to integrate safety technology into its drives. Our services include consultation, engineering, commissioning, plant construction and customer service. This is supported by a world-wide service network which is available 24 hours a day under a single international telephone number (008000 244 6877).