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The New Location in India

Eckerle Automotive GmbH entered the Indian market by seizing its first business opportunities. Our new project is related to the production of the switch and contact unit for the electric drive of eScooter Vida. The available business opportunity represents Eckerle’s entry into the Indian market, leading to the establishment of our Indian subsidiary. Eckerle Automotive […]

2024. January 30.

Eckerle Zhuhai on the way to CO2 Neutrality

The Eckerle Group aims to achieve climate neutrality. Supporting this target, Eckerle in Zhuhai recently organized an event titled “CO₂ Go Zero – Energy Conservation, Emission and Consumption Reduction Starting from Me,” primarily focusing on promoting environmental harm minimization. What made this occasion unique was its approach to instilling a sense of responsibility at a […]

2024. January 22.

The New Accredited Calibration Laboratory of Eckerle

We proudly announce that due to nearly two years of hard work, Eckerle Industrie Kft has run an accredited calibration laboratory since October 2023. Our company undertakes the calibration of press force meters in the Hungarian and Romanian markets within the range of 0.1 kN to 300 kN. We continue to offer condition assessment, primary […]

2024. January 9.

Business Marathon in Cluj

This autumn, the Eckerle team from Cluj-Napoca hosted the event called the “Business Marathon”. A total of six companies from both Cluj-Napoca and Zalău had the honor of being the venue for this event series in the region during October. Among them was Eckerle. The organizers of the „Business Marathon” were the French Chamber of […]

2023. November 23.

Eckerle Receives Quality Award from Prettl

The Prettl Group is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, and for this occasion, a special jubilee event took place on September 21-22. One of the event’s highlights was the awards ceremony, where trophies were presented to deserving recipients from Prettl’s 40 companies in the following categories: GoZero, People & Culture, Innovation & Technology, Sales […]

2023. October 16.

Brose Supplier Recognition 2023

We are incredibly proud to announce that Eckerle Holding has received recognition from our client, Brose, as a supplier. Our customer presented a certificate while visiting the Brose site in Bamberg. Eckerle earned the award for ensuring a smooth supply chain by responding to unusual circumstances. In the context of the tensions which started in […]

2023. July 11.

We Celebrate Our 12th Anniversary in China

To commemorate the 12th anniversary of Eckerle Zhuhai, the company organized a team-building activity on May 31, 2023. During this event, colleagues gathered to reflect upon and celebrate the company’s 12-year journey and remarkable achievements. The evening commenced with a delightful dinner, where all employees could enjoy each other’s company. As a gesture of gratitude, […]

2023. June 1.

GoZero Expands

Again we are one step closer to our goal and expanding our GoZero Eckerle-family again with more locations. We organized several sustainability workshops in Germany and Hungary in the past period, and now we moved on to Romania.   Our last GoZero workshop took place in Romania (Cluj, Turda, and Alba Iulia – Satrotec). In […]

2023. June 1.

Sports Day in Romania

Our dedicated Romanian team at Eckerle, located in Cluj-Napoca, organized a sports day recently on the 27th of May in Baza, Transilvania. This annual event aims to promote sports activities, team cohesion, and camaraderie among all Eckerle employees from our factories in Cluj, Turda. This year we also invited our fellow workers from the plant […]

2023. May 27.

Prettl Cup 2023- The Jubelee Game

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of the Prettl company, this year’s Prettl Cup took place on Friday, 5th May 2023, at the sports facility of TSV Holzelfingen. Prettl invited each of its locations within Germany to this event. After a brief welcome and explanation of the tournament rules, the teams demonstrated their skills […]

2023. May 15.

Girls’ Day at Eckerle

We also joined Girls’ Day in Ottersweier. Girls’ Day aims to allow young girls to gain experience in professions typically considered masculine. At Eckerle, we also set the ambitious goal of introducing more girls to manual/industrial trades. At our site, we welcomed eight participants from the surrounding schools. In addition to visiting our production departments, […]

2023. April 27.

The visit of the Minister of Economy in Cluj

On the 23rd of March, we welcomed Florin Spataru, the Minister of Economy in Romania, at our Cluj site. The  German Club Affairs of Cluj accompanied the Minister and his team. Andreas Goehring, CEO of the Eckerle Gruppe, traveled for this occasion also to Cluj. The visit took place within our company SC Eckerle Automotive […]

2023. March 23.

Internships at Eckerle’s Machining and Execution Hall

Eckerle will offer 13 pupils and students internships in the machining and execution hall in Kiskőrös Hungary, this summer. Three of them chose the company as an internship, five as a summer internship, and five students from the technical faculty came to the company through the student cooperative. During the practical period and summer holidays, […]

2022. August 31.

The Sixth “EQ14 Quality Principle” Prize Competition

Eckerle in China organized this year’s sixth “EQ14 Quality Principle” Prize Competition in Zhuhai and Shaoguan. The main aim of the one-week event was to develop employees’ quality awareness, enhance their knowledge of this topic, and enrich their work-life. The abbreviation EQ14 is an internal guideline about quality principles and processes that summarize the dos […]

2022. July 6.

Eckerle Became Eastern European Service Center For Presses

Eckerle Industrie Kft. has more than 20 years of experience in press consulting. As a result of long-term collaboration, the cooperation between Eckerle Industrie Kft. and Schmidt Technology GmbH reached another milestone this year: from 2022, Eckerle became a qualified service partner of Schmidt Technology GmbH, which it extends to its neighboring countries. The name […]

2022. June 30.

Eckerle China Received Hilti’s ‘Outperformer of the Year 2021’ Award

Our customer Hilti is one of the world’s most famous power tool producers. Due to the outstanding contribution to Hilti’s ‘NURON’ project, Eckerle China got this customer’s ‘Outperformer of the year 2021’ award. As a supplier of new generation battery casing of Hilti, Eckerle China has shown its intense designing and development capability in this […]

2022. June 24.

Our path to CO2 neutrality – Eckerle Go Zero Workshop

The Eckerle Group has set a new goal: climate neutrality by 2025. With this goal, the Eckerle Group wants to contribute to a sustainable future, so that a high quality of life is ensured in the future, which does not come at the expense of the environment. As part of the Prettl Group, the Eckerle […]

2022. January 14.

Ford says thank you to Eckerle!

At the end of November 2021, Ford started to build the first Ford Fiesta MCA vehicles with Brose’s power motors. This date meant a tremendous change seen out of Ford’s view, as they could overcome the semi-conductor shortage and were finally able to produce vehicles. As a result, hundreds of employees returned to the Ford […]

2021. December 17.

Eckerle Mexico receives Quality Award of Brose Mexico

Eckerle Mexico received on the 1st of December 2021 the Quality Award of Brose Mexico. Laura Solis our supplier quality contact at Brose Mexico explained the intentions for giving our company this recognition under the following basis: “The reason for considering Eckerle for this award is for maintaining an outstanding quality level and excellent communication […]

2021. December 1.

Employees with disabilities at Eckerle Automotive Romania

At our factory in Cluj-Napoca, in this moment we have the opportunity to work with 61 people with disabilities who show us daily how persevering and hardworking they are, but this is not something new for our team. Employees with disabilities are part of the Eckerle family! We believe in equality and diversity.  Everyone is […]

2021. November 2.

Eckerle Hungary celebrates 30 years in Hungary

This year Eckerle Group celebrates its 30th anniversary in Hungary. On this occasion, Eckerle Automotive Bóly Kft held a partner meeting. The jubilee event was not only significant because of the past three decades, but the last two years have been of great importance also.  From 2020, Eckerle, which employs more than 3,500 people worldwide, […]

2021. October 23.

Brand new Prettl & BOSCH video on air

Eckerle as a part of PRETTL group is pleased to announce that this year’s greatest sustainability milestone, the brand new PRETTL & BOSCH video is already on air. Sustainability has always been a crucial part of our strategy, therefore the new “PRETTL Go Zero” project has been created. We have set up our new sustainability […]

2021. April 27.

Climate Neutral Production – Prettl in the new Wirtschaft Neckar-Alb (WNA) magazine

The “Go Zero” project, with which we are promoting climate neutrality at our more than 40 locations worldwide, is very important to Prettl. Now the WNA – Wirtschaft Neckar-Alb – the IHK business magazine – has also taken up the topic of climate-neutral production and interviewed Prettl as an examplary company.

2021. March 21.

Go-Zero in our news feed

In intensive workshops over the past months we have developed our Prettl’s own master plan for CO2 reduction. This master plan aims to achieve climate neutrality through a clear focus on energy efficiency and own power generation. Over the next few months, the team will work together with the global sites to develop concrete action plans […]

2021. January 18.

Prettl „Go Zero“– Prettl sets course for CO2 neutrality

Eckerle will also pursue the goals Climate-friendly production: In the coming years Prettl plans to produce CO2-neutral in the balance sheet at all production sites worldwide. Products and technologies to reduce the carbon footprint: Companies of Prettl group support the energy turnaround with products for energy generation and storage, as well as for the electrification […]

2020. September 28.

Eckerle is part of the Prettl Group

Eckerle Group has been part of the Prettl Group since February 2020. The technology company Prettl is an internationally operating group of companies with over 10,000 employees at more than 40 locations in over 20 countries. The five business areas Automotive, Appliance Solutions, Electronics, Energy and Strategic Build-up are managed in completely independent companies. The […]

2020. June 29.