Friday, March 25, 2022
Haefele is expanding its expertise in smart networking of furniture and rooms, and is acquiring the innovative company ThingOS with retroactive effect in 2022. The international Haefele Group for hardware technology, electronic access control systems and lighting in furniture and rooms has already been working successfully and intensively with ThingOS, a Stuttgart-based start-up, since 2017. ThingOS stands for “Operating System = OS for networkable objects (Internet of Things = Thing)”. With the acquisition, Haefele is bringing technological competencies and know-how in-house to enable its customers from the joiner/cabinet maker, project business and industrial sectors to create holistic, networked room designs that are future-proof.
Digital networking becomes a core competency
Haefele Managing Director Sibylle Thierer sees this step as the logical continuation of the company’s strategy to establish itself in the market for innovative lighting solutions as a driving force in the industry. “Haefele recognised the importance of networked solutions years ago and has evolved from its traditional area of furniture lighting into a holistic lighting supplier,” comments the managing director. Haefele placed the capstone on its competency in the lighting field by acquiring the Nimbus architectural brand in 2019. Room and furniture lighting can now be merged into a harmonious overall atmosphere that is centrally planned and controlled – including clever acoustic solutions and innovative concepts around the topic of smart networking. “Now we are going one step further and making digital connectivity a core competency by developing it further under the Haefele umbrella together with our new family member ThingOS,” says Sibylle Thierer.
The spirit of technology and innovation finds a new home
ThingOS is a young Stuttgart-based company which emerged as a start-up from the University of Stuttgart. With its team, the company has developed numerous business areas in just a few years, from smart homes and smart buildings (hotels, restaurants) to smart industry. “As part of the Haefele Group, we now have the opportunity to grow in completely new dimensions with our platform and services,” says CEO Thomas Kubitza, who together with his co-founders Matthias Mögerle, Patrick Bader, Dominique Rau and Albrecht Schmidt, will continue to write the success story as part of the Haefele Group.
Tags: furniture industry, furniture manufacturing, haefele, ThingOS, woodworking industry
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