Fastener Testing

Buehler relocates headquarters 01 March 2022

Buehler ITW Test & Measurement GmbH has relocated its German headquarters, including development and service workshop, from Esslingen to Leinfelden-Echterdingen, which is conveniently located near Stuttgart Airport and the trade fair centre.

Just in time for the celebration of the 85th anniversary, the new premises offers employees plenty of space, on two floors, for more comfortable working in a friendly atmosphere. From there, Buehler also coordinates the cooperation with its Bremen-based partner OMNILAB. As one of the largest independent specialist laboratory dealers in Germany, the latter took over the warehousing for the diverse systems, spare parts and consumables used in materialography and material analysis, as well as customer service at the end of 2020.

The spacious laboratory is equipped with state of the art technology for the preparation of materialography samples as well as the latest generation of hardness testers and corresponding testing software. It is available for the solution of specific tasks and problems of national and international customers, as well as for seminars and training courses. The first test run will be at the beginning of 2022 with the start of the SumMet courses, in which Buehler will impart specialist and detailed knowledge on the preparation and evaluation of material samples.

Buehler has been a manufacturer of instruments, consumables and accessories for metallography and materials analysis since 1936 and supplies a comprehensive range of hardness testers and hardness testing systems. Buehler is part of the Test and Measurement Segment of US company Illinois Tool Works (ITW) with some 800 decentralised divisions in 52 countries and around 45,000 employees. 

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