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.

2019-09-17. Rittal will be showing what well-engineered, secure solutions for the networked operation of airports look like at the “inter airport Europe” international airport trade fair in Munich from 8 to 11 October 2019.

2019-09-16. Rittal und Innovo Cloud will be presenting their solutions for physical IT security and cyber-security at the specialist it-sa trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, from 8 to 10 October 2019.

2019-08-30. At the Husum Wind trade fair (10 to 13 September) in Husum, Rittal presents new solutions to significantly accelerate the planning and production processes. The trade fair highlights include the new AX and KX compact and small enclosures along with infrastructure solutions for energy storage.

2019-08-30. For a company to implement Industry 4.0, its machinery and equipment must be able to communicate with each other and the internet. To ensure customers can integrate existing Blue e cooling units into condition monitoring and IoT systems, Rittal is now offering a adaptor that retrofits communications capabilities.

2019-08-28. The Friedhelm Loh Group has officially congratulated 19 cooperative-education students – 16 in bachelor’s and 3 in master’s programmes – and 30 apprentices on their outstanding achievements and successful completion of their studies/training.

2019-08-15. Starting on 01 January 2020, there will be bans on the use of certain refrigerants as well as new regulations and rules on the operation, servicing and labelling of cooling and air-conditioning plants. Rittal has the answers to the users of refrigeration equipment questions on what to do now.

2019-08-07. In July, the Haiger-based Rittal Innovation Center welcomed its 10,000th visitor three years after its opening. The great interest visitors have shown in live presentations and training courses underscore the high demand for innovations in panel building and switchgear manufacturing.

2019-08-05. “betop” has received the highest honour at the 25th Communicator Awards. The international programme is one of the world’s leading creative competitions, receiving approximately 6000 entries each season. The Friedhelm Loh Group’s magazine was placed first in the Design and Print category.

2019-08-02. Circle B and Rittal have decided to move the first European Open Compute Project (OCP) Experience Center to the maincubes AMS01 datacenter in Amsterdam.

2019-08-01. On 10 June, Rittal received the coveted Bosch Global Supplier Award, granted every two years. From a total of some 43,000 suppliers around the world, Bosch honoured 47 companies from 15 countries.

2019-07-15. Starting in January 2020, ship exhaust gases will only be permitted to have a sulphur content of 0.5 percent. Consequently, the maritime industry is working on innovative solutions to further reduce the environmental impact of large engines.

2019-06-28. He was appointed to the Rittal Management Board with effect from 1 June 2019. He is responsible for sales in the regions of Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, as well as the Middle East and Africa. In addition, he is in charge of Service, Internal Sales, as well as Operations.