2020-06-04. GAIA-X, the major European digital project aimed at strengthening Europe’s position in international competition, is to become an organisation with the capacity to act and with legal capacity. The Friedhelm Loh Group with its German Edge Cloud subsidiary will be a founding member of the new GAIA-X Foundation.

2020-05-05. With its new VX IT rack system, Rittal is presenting a newly developed modular system for server and network racks. This allows IT infrastructures to be set up with previously unattained speed – ranging from individual network racks to complete data centres.

2020-04-29. It is forecast that the global market for liquid cooling in the data centre industry will increase from $1.2 billion (2019) to a 2024 figure of $3.2 billion .

2020-02-25. Rittal is one of the first industrial players to receive a 5G frequency allocation. Before the end of the year, a private 5G mobile communications network will be installed in the new Haiger plant. The first pilot projects, for example in production monitoring and analysis, have already been defined.

2020-02-20. Empowering Next Generation Data Centers with High Performance Chip Cooling Solutions: Rittal HPC Cooled-by-ZutaCore solutions provide trusted global expertise with innovative waterless two-phase direct contact evaporative liquid cooling.

2020-02-12. First place for the Friedhelm Loh Group in “2020 Innovation Champions Award”. The award-winning ONCITE solution is the first real-time capable, data sovereign and AI-based edge cloud data centre for the future industrial processing of manufacturing data.

2019-12-11. Manufacturing companies are working on a European data infrastructure in which they shall have full control over their data and in which real-time processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for the digital transformation and networking of industry are possible.

2019-12-10. The 2019 Rittal Cup was able to boast a record result: No less than €10,400 was raised for charitable purposes. The “Charlie und Lotte” grief counselling service, the German Red Cross’s Dietzhölztal branch, the church-run care centre in Eschenburg and the SG Dietzhölztal all benefited from the donations.

2019-12-05. Growing volumes of data, a secure European cloud (data control), rapid upgrades of data centres and rising energy consumption are the IT/data centre trends for Rittal in 2020. For example, the use of OCP (Open Compute Project) technology and heat recovery offers solutions for the challenges of the present.

2019-11-28. The winners of the awards are from Belgium, Italy and Poland. At the Channel Partner Summit, 50 partners from the EMEA region exchanged ideas about all the trends and challenges involved in partner and customer lifetime values, as well as edge computing.

2019-11-27. Ergonomic, modular and flexible – these are the characteristics of the Rittal Wire Station 540 mobile wiring table. Workstations in panel building and switchgear manufacturing and in electro-technical workshops can be professionally equipped with this innovation, which can also be used in mobile applications.

2019-11-26. Millions of customers worldwide have relied on Rittal compact and small enclosures. Rittal, however has raised the bar still further by launching its new AX and KX range so that users can benefit from their many advantages.

2019-11-15. “Stagnation means decline and I won’t have it!” That was the motto of this year’s "Trainee Days" event for Friedhelm Loh Group apprentices, held at the Gnadenthal monastery.

2019-11-08. Innovo Cloud and Rittal come top in readers’ poll of leading IT specialist media and win the gold award in the "Pre-Build-Datacenter" category. Pre-configured, turnkey IT solutions impress especially with rapid usability.

2019-10-29. Rittal’s drive for ever-greater digital connectivity has been recognised by the judges of the Besser Lackieren (“Better Painting”) awards, a highly coveted accolade in the German painting industry. The business received the newly created special prize for digital transformation at its advan paint shop at its new plant.

2019-10-29. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy unveiled Gaia-X at the Digital Summit 2019 on 29 October in Dortmund. The goal of this large-scale project is to strengthen the competitiveness of European industry on international markets.

2019-10-21. At the SPS automation trade fair in Nuremberg (26 to 28 November), Rittal will be presenting its latest solutions under the motto of “Answers 4.0”.

2019-10-10. German Edge Cloud, part of the Friedhelm Loh Group of companies, is presenting the “ONCITE” industrial edge cloud appliance together with Bosch Connected Industry, IoTOS and Rittal.

2019-09-24. The ISG analysts believe there is high-potential market demand for Rittal’s edge computing offering. The award is further confirmation that Rittal is set to be a key edge computing player in the coming years.