RSBG Automation & Technologies GmbH founded
The Hahn Group has been represented in robotics for years. Together with Siemens, it owns Rethink Robotics, among others. Today it sent out an interesting press release, which is largely reproduced below.
With the reorganization of the investment structure by RSBG SE, the investment company for medium-sized investments of the RAG Foundation, RSBG Automation & Technologies GmbH is created as a new corporate platform. This results in further potentials and synergies also for the HAHN Group. The leadership of the new platform will be taken over by the former CEO of the HAHN Group, Thomas Hähn. The current CEO Philipp Unterhalt will move to the top of the HAHN Group as of April 1, 2021. Together with Axel Greschitz (CFO), the further expansion of the group in factory automation will be driven forward. New locations are already to be opened in the next few months.
RSBG Automation & Robotics Technologies GmbH as a new corporate platform enables growth into further business areas by leveraging technical and organizational synergies
With the foundation of RSBG Automation & Robotics Technologies (RSBG ART), RSBG SE opens up the possibility for further technology investments alongside HAHN Group. The HAHN Group is a 100 percent shareholding of the new platform and focuses on the field of automation and robotics in the industrial environment. In addition, further investments in automation and robotics in non-industrial areas are planned.
Further development of the management team underlines the stability and continuity of the HAHN Group
Thomas Hähn, founder of HAHN Automation and CEO of the HAHN Group for many years, will take over the management of RSBG ART. In the future, as CEO of RSBG ART, he will be responsible for all activities in the field of automation & robotics, and will thus remain strategically connected to the HAHN Group.
Philipp Unterhalt takes over the management of the HAHN Group. Together with Axel Greschitz, the Group's CFO, he will push the next growth step and drive the diversification of the network. Unterhalt will take up his new role as CEO of HAHN Group on April 1, 2021.
"I am pleased to introduce Philipp Unterhalt as the new CEO of HAHN Group. He has demonstrated outstanding strategic orientation. With his international experience and his value-based management style, he is the ideal person for the further development of the HAHN Group. I
value our cooperation very much and look forward to continuing it in the new constellation," says Thomas Hähn, CEO RSBG Automation & Robotics Technologies GmbH.
Philipp Unterhalt has accompanied the group since 2014, and has acted as managing director since 2019. Together with Thomas Hähn, he developed the concept of the HAHN Group as a platform for entrepreneurial automation companies and managed all transactions of the group. Under his leadership, the new companies were integrated and the digital strategy was also developed and implemented. In addition to the operational business, the 39-year-old is also responsible for the corona management of the HAHN Group. The economist lives with his family in Essen.
"The HAHN Group is a fascinating group of companies and entrepreneurs. The network character allows us to use the synergies of a large company and still be very close to the customer with innovative solutions," explains Unterhalt. "I am hugely looking forward to continuing
to work with the entire team to continue our successful strategy. Organic growth, complemented by technological expansion, expanding the business into additional industries and strengthening global activities."
Into the future with mobile robotics
The HAHN Group continues to grow even in times of pandemic. In 2020, order intake increased by 21 percent across the Group compared to the previous year, in particular due to orders in the healthcare sector. Among other things, the focus in the current year is on growth in the field of mobile robotics. For example, two additional locations for the HAHN Robotics Network are to be established in the south and east of Germany this spring. Mobile robotics enables the support of logistics processes in production with minimal integration effort and thus already offers interesting automation solutions for smaller companies that quickly pay for themselves.