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About WERMA

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

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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.’

WERMA in Numbers

7

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.

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

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

Top Innovator

TOP 100, 2024

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

Top Produkt 2022

Readers' Choice of the Konradin Verlag, 2023

Awarded for eSIGN.

Top Innovator

TOP 100, 2020

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

Awards for responsibility and environmental awareness

EcoVadis Silver Medal

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, 2023

DIN EN ISO 50001:2018

Arqum Zert GmbH, 2021

Für ein Energiemanagement-Systeme.

Awards for personality and appreciation

Top Company 

kununu, 2024

World's Best Employer

World's Best Employer, 2023

Excellent Employer

TOP JOB, 2023

In German SME companies.

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.

But one thing remains the same: WERMA is and will remain family-run for generations by the Marquardt family.

1950
Founded by WERNER and ERICH MARQUARDT. Production of hair dryers and motors.
1953
Special switches for automatic timers are manufactured.
1957
Production of buzzers and horns. Production of hair dryers, motors and automatic timers ceases.
1992
New building construction doubles existing production space.
1994
WERMA presents the world's first modular signal tower, KombiSIGN.
1997
Strong business expansion via new developments, especially of optical signal devices.
1999
WERMA has more than 100 employees. With the KombiSIGN signal tower, the company is the world's second largest signal tower supplier.
2000
WERMA celebrates its 50th anniversary.
2002
WERMA moves into the largest new building construction in the company history with 3,000 m² of additional work space. 
2005
Founding of the subsidiary WERMA (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. with its own production location for Asia. A subsidiary in Switzerland is opened in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.
2007
Founding of a subsidiary in UK.
2009
Founding of a subsidiary in Belgium.
2009
Matthias Marquardt, Erich Marquardt‘s son, becomes Managing Director.
2012
Founding of a subsidiary in USA.
2015
WERMA has more than 300 employees worldwide. WERMA celebrates its 65th anniversary.
2016
WERMA expands production area by 4,100 m².
2018
Founding of a subsidiary in Italy.
2019
WERMA Shanghai moves to a new company building.
2021
WERMA presents the eSIGN - a signal tower that sets new standards thanks to its electronic modularity.
2022
Market launch WeASSIST - enables full transparency over all workplaces, machines and plants.
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