About Us

The Eckerle Group is an internationally active partner in the automotive supplier industry and an experienced specialist in special machinery for a wide range of sectors. With over 2,640 employees worldwide, it is organized into two business divisions: Eckerle Automotive and Eckerle Industry.

Our expertise includes the production of complex plastic and overmolded stamped parts, the integration of electronic components, laser and resistance spot welding, the manufacture of manual assembly equipment and highly automated production lines, as well as precision CNC machining. Throughout, we prioritize individual customer and project support and the tailored implementation of technical requirements—an approach we have followed for more than half a century.

Providing personalized customer and project support is at the heart of what we do. We see meeting and exceeding our customers’ product requirements as both our responsibility and the challenge by which we continually measure ourselves.

Over 2,640 employees worldwide
Over 160 million individual parts produced annually
Over 50 years’ experience in assembly technology
Over 20 years’ experience in plastics technology and manufacture of fully-automated assembly lines
Presence on 3 continents
Plants in 6 countries from Mexico to China

1968

Company foundation in Bühl/Baden, Germany Manufacture of metal structures

1969

Launch of assembly technology

1991

Foundation of first plant abroad: Kiskőrös, Hungary

1994

New division: automation Hungarian sales partner for Bosch Rexroth and Schmidt Technology

2000

New division: plastics technology

2001

New plant in Querétaro, Mexico

2002

New plant in Cluj, Romania

2011

Acquisition of global activities of Schunk Modultechnik Group with plant Bóly, Hungary. Foundation of new site in Zhuhai, China

2020

New owner: Prettl Group

2023

New Plant in Pune, India