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VEGA - home of values

very year more than half a million understandable and intuitive. VEGA has set itself the goal of developing innovative
sensors leave VEGA Grieshaber KG measurement technology that is easy to install and operate and offers maximum safety
Ein Germany. Each one providing and reliability.
reliable solutions to challenging VEGA employs over 2,100 people worldwide, 1,000 of whom work at its
measurement problems somewhere in headquarters in Schiltach in the Black Forest. This is where, for over 60 years now,
the world, also from the Company’s new solutions to demanding measuring tasks are being conceived and brought to realisation.
South African headquarters in Lanseria. Vega opened its first South African office in a residential house in Ruimsig,
Lanseria is the designated area for one Johannesburg, later moving to a commercial property in the industrial zone of Honeydew,
of South Africa new mega cities. Johannesburg. Setting its target on growing in South Africa, the company never exported
High vessels, temperatures or its profit but kept it in South Africa. During 2022 the company applied its accumulated
pressures, every industry places its funds in a state-of-the-art new building. The company has a very simple philosophy, the
own specific requirements on the products Vega supplies must add value to the customer who place their trust in them.
measurement technology it uses. VEGA’s This philosophy is also reflected in the entire design of the new building in Lanseria.
portfolio includes, among other things, It is environmentally and employee friendly. Workspaces have no walls and have been
level, switching and pressure sensors designed to make maximum use of natural light. Workstations are adjustable and offer
for chemical and pharmaceutical plants, comfortable seating but also opportunities to work in a standing position. Customer
food and beverage as well as drinking engagement areas are equipped with audio-visual and conference facilities.
water supply systems, metal extraction,
sewage treatment plants, power Sensors with vision
generation and mining. For some time now Vega has been asking the question “How do you optimise a
Production processes are becoming level sensor that already has everything: the best focusing, highest accuracy, simple
ever more complex. It is therefore operation, universal communication? What sounds like an obvious question has led
important that the measurement VEGA to create much more than just an even better sensor. When using the new
technology used to control and VEGAPULS 6X introduced at the beginning of 2022, it’s not just the sensor that counts,
monitor the processes is all the more but what can be achieved with it in the application: simply better processes.

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