Wittlich, 10.2020.
The Wittlich-based company Arend Prozessautomation and its subsidiary
Arendar IT-Security officially launch their joint technology centre.
technology centre.
The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the joint technology centre of Arend
Process Automation and Arendar IT Security (from left): Arendar Managing Director Rudolf Preuß,
Member of the Bundestag Andreas Steier, IHK Managing Director Jan Glockauer, Arend Managing Director
Axel Haas, building owner Manfred Hermes and Member of Parliament Elfriede Meurer. Photo: TV/Petra Willems
Wittlich. The Wittlich-based company Arend Prozessautomation and its subsidiary
Arendar IT-Security officially launch their joint technology centre.
technology centre.
(will) For Axel Haas, Managing Director of the Wittlich-based company Arend Process Automation, every 13th is a lucky day.
process automation company, every 13th is a lucky day, as he explained on the occasion of the symbolic
of the new technology centre of Arend Prozessautomation and Arendar-IT-Security in Wittlich.
Arendar-IT-Security in Edisonstraße in Wittlich. The reason: on 13 July 1990, he had sunk
sank with a ship in the Mediterranean Sea and survived the accident, Haas continued.
The technology centre of the two companies is being built on 1250 square metres at Edisonstraße 7 in the Wittlich I industrial estate.
By locating the production, administration and research and development centre under one roof, the
administration and the research and development centre under one roof, all processes can be
processes can be optimally coordinated and harmonised, according to Axel Haas and
Rudolf Preuß, Managing Directors of Arendar IT-Security.
Arend Prozessautomation was founded in Wittlich in 1987 and taken over by Axel Haas in 2011.
took over. The company, which employs 45 people at its current site in Wittlich’s Rotenberg, is one of the leading
Rotenberg in Wittlich, is one of the leading providers for the development and
and production of electronic systems in the field of automation. The Arend
subsidiary Arendar IT-Security was founded in 2019 after a two-year development phase and is
and has specialised in cyber-security in production by offering
Arendar, a product developed in-house, enables secure separation of the IT network from the
production and to the critical infrastructure.
For Andreas Steier (CDU), member of the Bundestag, as well as for managing director
Axel Haas, the 13th is a lucky day. Steier (“Arend is one of the
leading companies in its sector”) was, like Jan Glockauer, general manager of the
of the Trier Chamber of Industry and Commerce (“I am pleased that important companies are staying in the region”), the First
of the town of Wittlich and member of the state parliament Elfriede Meurer (CDU), the sales managers
sales managers Peter Fischer and Ralf Geduldig, as well as building owner Manfred Hermes, in addition to the
and Preuß to the official start signal for the construction of the technology centre.
technology centre, which is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in the summer of 2021.
