About WERMA

Welcome to WERMA – your innovation partner for leading products and
intelligent system solutions in signalling technology.

With our products and solutions, we help to make working environments safe and efficient. We have been setting the standards for modern signalling technology worldwide for years and offer clever solutions that can be easily and quickly integrated. This not only sustainably optimises processes in industry and logistics, but also saves time and money. That's what we mean by ‘Leading signals. Smart solutions.’

Vision & Mission
Quality Standards
Awards
History
Career

WERMA in Numbers

Sites
worldwide

ca. 400

Employees

>2,5 Mio.

Products produced
anually

10%

R&D Invest
of sales p.a.

Our Vision
& Mission

Our signals are the key to safe and efficient processes.
As a leading global family business and reliable partner, we inspire our customers with the best solutions for signalling and process optimisation:
we warn, guide, protect.

Customers and markets

We inspire our customers with high-quality and functional products, fast delivery and friendly service.
We realise customer-specific product developments with the same high standards.
We are growing faster than our competitors in our target markets and are represented in all major world markets with our own subsidiaries.

Innovations and products

We develop products in the field of signalling technology and complementary systems for process optimisation.
These are always innovative, simple, retrofittable and offer our customers the greatest possible benefit.

Processes and productivity

We are continuously improving in all areas of the company with the aim of achieving and maintaining a high level of profitability to ensure our long-term independence.
We are sustainably reducing our use of energy and resources with the goal of long-term CO₂ neutrality.

Employees and organisation

Our corporate culture is based on openness, trust and mutual respect.
We offer above-average working conditions and social benefits, as well as opportunities for individual professional development.

Our Quality Standards

Highest quality is our claim. The highest quality forms the basis for long-term customer relationships and creates trust. In order to manufacture products that our customers are satisfied with, our employees work according to binding and defined quality principles.

In production technology, we utilise the advantages of lean production processes and intelligent automation. This makes us fast and flexible.

Clever solutions that simply work – this has been our goal at WERMA for decades, and customers from all over the world confirm our success day after day. We are setting the standards for modern signal technology - and are also defining their future: for more than twenty years with modular signal towers as the industry standard, and with networked, intelligent system solutions today. The "Made in Germany" label is thereby a guarantee that now allows us to describe ourselves with pride as "Europe's leading signal".
Matthias Marquardt, CEO

Business Partner Code of Conduct

Policy statement in accordance with the Supply Chain Act

Our Awards

Innovations are the driving force for WERMA to further extend the company's technological lead. WERMA carries out both systematic basic and specific product development at the most modern level. All new developments are checked and tested in our own optics and acoustics laboratories. "Made in Germany" is a way of life at WERMA. The success of this innovation policy is proven by many patents, design awards and customer ratings.

In recent years, WERMA has been repeatedly recognised for the excellent design of its products as well as its social and community commitment.

Awards for future and progress

Product Design Award

iF Design Award, 2024

Awarded for LineLIGHT Fusion.

Top Innovator

TOP 100, 2024

This makes WERMA one of the most innovative companies in the German SME sector.

Top Product 2022

Readers' Choice of the Konradin Verlag, 2023

Awarded for eSIGN.

Awards for responsibility and environmental awareness

AEOF Certified

Customs, 2025

As proof of exceptional reliability and security in customs operations.

EcoVadis Bronze Medal

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, 2024

DIN EN ISO 9001:2015

TÜV SÜD Management Service, 2024

For the introduction of a quality management system.

DIN EN ISO 14001:2015

Arqum Zert GmbH, 2021

For an environmental management system.

DIN EN ISO 50001:2018

Arqum Zert GmbH, 2021

For an energy management system.

Awards for personality and appreciation

Top Company

kununu, 2025

World's Best Employer

World's Best Employer, 2023

Excellent Employer

TOP JOB, 2023

In the German SME sector

Our History

Decades of family and innovation. Innovative, smart and close to our customers' needs - and has been for many decades. In this way, WERMA is always on the move and grows sustainably and reliably.

One thing remains the same, however: WERMA was, is and will remain a family business.

1950

Founded by Werner Marquardt. First product: ‘Werma hot air shower’ – a hair dryer with a small motor manufactured in-house.

1953

WERMA produces time switches. Erich Marquardt has been supporting his brother Werner since the 1950s with advice, assistance and capital.

1957

Production of buzzers and horns begins, while production of hair dryers, motors and time switches comes to an end.

1960

The new building on Dürbheimer Straße: the start of continuous change and growth in the following years.

1965

Erich Marquardt leaves the company to devote himself entirely to the development division of his parents' company J. & J. Marquardt KG in Rietheim until his retirement in 1993.

1980

The first optical and award-winning signal lights are developed during this decade.

1987

Werner Marquardt dies in 1987; his widow Irene Marquardt takes over the management of the company until 1993.

1992

The first new building doubles the floor space.

1993

Erich Marquardt takes over WERMA from the Irene Marquardt family as managing partner.

1994

With KombiSIGN, WERMA introduces the world's first modular signal tower: patented by Erich Marquardt. This innovation is followed by rapid growth.

1997

WERMA has more than 100 employees and is now one of the largest suppliers of signal towers in the world.

2000

WERMA celebrates its 50th anniversary.

2001

Following the death of Erich Marquardt, the shareholders transfer management to Günter Kirn until 2009.

2002

The (at that time) largest new building in the company's history, which Erich Marquardt had planned, is occupied, providing 3,000 m² of additional production space.

2005

Foundation of the subsidiary WERMA (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. with its own production location for Asia. A subsidiary in Switzerland is opened in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.