Current press releases at a glance

2 Mar 2022

Experience Rittal LIVE

There are only weeks to go until the 2022 Drives & Controls exhibition which is held at the NEC Birmingham from the 5th-7th April. With a wide and diverse range of over 400 companies...

17 Feb 2022

LANline readers vote Rittal “2021 Supplier of the Year” in five categories

The readership of the IT trade journal “LANline” have voted Rittal “2021 Supplier of the Year” in five categories in an online readers' poll.

10 Feb 2022

Rittal ePocket awarded Enclosure Sustainability prize by Siemens

Siemens is a pioneer in sustainable action in industry. In 2021, the company presented its first ever Sustainability Award in the “Cabinets Material Field”. The first winner! Rittal’s “ePocket” wiring plan pocket.

7 Feb 2022

Rittal is one of Germany’s most innovative mid-size businesses

Rittal has been named one of Germany’s 100 most innovative mid-size businesses via an independent selection process. The Top 100 accolade reflects the quality of innovation management and the pioneering products of the world’s leading manufacturer of...

20 Jan 2022

Rittal celebrates the one millionth VX25 

Author: Emma Ryde – Rittal UK’s Product Manager for Enclosure Systems 2021 was a triple milestone for Rittal, the company celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding, the 75th birthday of owner Prof. Friedhelm...

6 Jan 2022

“Close to the people”: three awards for the Friedhelm Loh Group’s employee magazine

Late last year, the Friedhelm Loh Group won three awards for its employee communication media. The employee magazine “Rundblick” won the Fox Award in gold, the ICMA (International Creative Media) Award...

13 Dec 2021

Rittal’s DCiB provides sustainability and data solution for Oxford University’s GLAM Division

Author: Andrew Wreford - Rittal's Product Manager for IT Systems Oxford University's Gardens, Libraries and Museums division (GLAM) forms one of the greatest concentrations of university collections in...

30 Nov 2021

Designing a Switchboard for a Fishing Trawler

Author: Mark Guest, Product Manager - Power Distribution Systems When NU-Design Limited, a marine electrical services business based in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland needed help in the designing of a very specific...

24 Nov 2021

Easier than ever – individually configuring and ordering enclosures

Can complex products such as enclosure systems be planned easily in 3D, configured individually, and ordered quickly, thanks to direct price information? For system planners, this is now even easier. With Rittal’s new RiPanel enclosure configurator,...

23 Nov 2021

A new home for the digital twin

Rittal ePocket – the digital wiring plan pocket: In terms of environmental friendliness, the new space in the cloud has the benefit of doing away with paper. In addition, operators, planners, switchgear manufacturers and maintenance staff will find it...

1 Sep 2021

Autumn is Here - Time to Reflect Author: Karl Lycett – Rittal UK Climate Control Product Manager

Author: Karl Lycett, Product Manager - Climate Control Systems Finally! The temperature seems to be reducing to a more bearable level, the nights are slowly drawing in and... do I see a hint of colour change in the...

1 Jun 2021

The ABC of Milling Author: Mark Guest - Product Manager for Power Distribution Systems

Author: Mark Guest - Product Manager - Power Distribution Systems Milling, drilling, thread tapping – there are very few switchgear manufacturers who love metalworking. Fortunately, there is a solution!...

29 Apr 2021

Four excuses not to take your enclosure cooling maintenance seriously

There is an adage that time is money, this is particularly true when it comes to production downtime. Hold ups in production could result in lost money- a lot of lost money! Losses of upto £480,000 have been suggested...

9 Mar 2021

TX CableNet: Momentum for professional quality cable management

With its new TX CableNet, Rittal is accelerating professional-quality network cabling. Even large quantities of cable with a soft bending radius are easily inserted, and perfect cable routing is achieved with the “waterfall principle”. The pre-assembled...

3 Mar 2021

Rittal is repositioning itself for the energy market of the future

A new business unit has been established: On 1 August, Rittal inaugurated a separate business unit for the energy market.

25 Feb 2021

Markus Asch appointed CEO of Rittal International and RSS International

Effective February 1, 2021, Professor Friedhelm Loh, Owner and CEO of the Friedhelm Loh Group, appointed Markus Asch (49) as CEO of Rittal International Stiftung & Co. KG and Chairman of the Management Board of Rittal GmbH & Co.

3 Feb 2021

German Edge Cloud and IBM take a hybrid cloud solution for industrial edge compu-ting directly onto the shop floor

With “ONCITE powered by IBM,” an all-in-one hybrid cloud solution already in use at Rittal’s digitally integrated Haiger plant, both German Edge Cloud and IBM are addressing the digitisation needs of manufacturing industry through relevant shop floor...

3 Feb 2021

German Edge Cloud auf der Hannover Messe Preview 2021

27 Jan 2021

German Edge Cloud teaches a lesson: Cloud solution for Hesse’s school portal copes with high demand

With a tablet computer instead of a blackboard: In schools, the future is a digital one. The coronavirus situation makes this quite clear. German Edge Cloud (GEC) delivered a cloud architecture for the Hesse’s school portal that handled even high demand...

21 Jan 2021

German Edge Cloud is formed from three start-ups

Three companies in the Friedhelm Loh Group – German Edge Cloud, IoTOS and iNNOVO Cloud – have now become one. The expertise of the companies in the IIoT, cloud and edge computing markets, is now being powerfully combined in German...

13 Jan 2021

Stand-alone enclosures offer greater simplicity

Baying enclosures are frequently employed for free-standing use cases – but are not always the best approach. The advantages of stand-alone products such as the Rittal VX SE have often been overlooked.

3 Dec 2020

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1 Dec 2020

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18 Nov 2020

Eplan, Rittal and Phoenix Contact: Standards set for industrialising panel building

Five years ago, Eplan, Rittal and Phoenix Contact founded a technology cooperation for panel building and switchgear manufacturing – “Smart Engineering and Production 4.0”.

9 Nov 2020

RiMatrix Next Generation – the future platform for all IT scenarios

In the IT infrastructure platform RiMatrix Next Generation (NG), Rittal has created a new modular system for establishing data centres flexibly, reliably and fast.

9 Nov 2020

Cooling units – efficient in all weathers

With its new wall-mounted cooling unit Blue e+ outdoor, Rittal is now making its highly efficient series of cooling units ready for use out in the open.

2 Nov 2020

Higher speeds and lower costs

At the digital WindEnergy Hamburg trade fair from 1 to 4 December, Rittal will be showing how panel-building and switchgear manufacturers can significantly speed up their planning and manufacturing processes and get them ready for Industry 4.0, so...

28 Oct 2020

SPS Connect 2020: Eplan and Rittal will be taking part!

As “SPS Connect – The digital automation hub,” the PLC automation trade fair will now be taking place online for the first time from 24 to 26 November. Eplan and Rittal will be present virtually and presenting their end-to-end range of solutions through...

14 Oct 2020

We’re on our way! Fifty-seven new recruits join the Friedhelm Loh Group

Ready for the future! This summer, fifty-seven young men and women began either a vocational training or a bachelor degree course combining study and work experience at the Friedhelm Loh Group.

6 Oct 2020

Graduation with the “wow” factor

Trainees and master’s degree students at Friedhelm Loh Group receive their graduation certificates

16 Sep 2020

The Friedhelm Loh Group is a founding member of the Gaia-X organisation

The European digital project to strengthen Europe’s global competitive position is evolving into a competent organisation with legal capacity

23 Jul 2020

More transparency and control over power consumption in IT racks

Energy consumption is an important factor for economical IT operations. The maximum transparency of consumption is vital. That is why Rittal has integrated extensive measurement functions for detailed energy analysis in its new PDU (Power...

15 Jul 2020

Building edge infrastructures faster

Speed is of the essence. Due to the industrial transformation, manufacturing companies are having to build new IT and OT infrastructures for edge applications faster than ever before. The prerequisites are rack systems based on a...

14 Jul 2020

AX enclosures: now also ready for outdoor use

Rittal has rounded off its AX range of compact enclosures with its newly developed plastic enclosures. Its new mounting functions make rapid expansion possible and provide a greater scope for installation using smart technology.

10 Jul 2020

Solutions for the industrial transfor-mation – from IT rack to edge computing

For the first time ever, the Hanover Fair is being held as a purely digital forum, with Rittal as one of the ten premium partners of the “Digital Days” on 14 and 15 July...

3 Jun 2020

“Top Employer” Friedhelm Loh Group

The judges were impressed by the Friedhelm Loh Group’s diverse concepts for “Lifelong Learning” to make employees fit for digitalization processes and Industry 4.0.

6 May 2020

The world's fastest IT rack

Rittal proudly unveils its new VX IT rack system, an innovative modular system of variants for server and network racks. New IT infrastructures can now be assembled at unprecedented speed, from individual network racks to entire data centres.

28 Apr 2020

Direct chip cooling

Rittal, one of the world’s leading system providers for industrial and IT infrastructure solutions, and ZutaCore, experts in processor and liquid cooling, deliver innovative solutions for high-performance cooling and other computing-intensive scenarios...

11 Feb 2020

Friedhelm Loh Group wins innovation prize with ONCITE

Friedhelm Loh Group wins first place in the "Innovation Champions Award 2020". The prize-winning solution ONCITE is the world’s first real-time, data-sovereign, AI-based edge cloud data centre.

20 Dec 2019

5G at Rittal: New mobile communications standard enters production

Rittal was one of the first German industry companies to be allocated the 5G frequency. Pilot projects in the areas of production monitoring and analysis have already been drawn up.

20 Dec 2019

Innovations with tradition: Friedhelm Loh Group Seniors’ Club visits the Rittershausen plant

The autumn event of the FLG Seniors’ Club was attended by more than 170 former employees, demonstrating the strong ties they still have with their employer. As well as spending time reminiscing, they also enjoyed a guided tour of the...

19 Dec 2019

“You have lived and written history”

For Prof. Friedhelm Loh, the annual celebrations to mark employee anniversaries are a calendar highlight. The three-hour event honours employees who are celebrating 10, 25, 40 or even 50 years with an FLG company. It also honours the top...

11 Dec 2019

“The Power of Data”: The latest edition of the be top magazine

Read more about the Gaia-X digital project and other solutions for the challenges of digitalisation in the new edition of be top – either as a print version or online.

10 Dec 2019

Record donation for the Rittal Cup: Kicking for Charity

The Rittal Cup 2019 raised a record €10,400 for good causes.

5 Dec 2019

What’s on the trend list for 2020?

Rittal has identified escalating data volumes, a secure European cloud, the rapid modernisation of data centres and rising energy consumption as the key IT/data centre trends for 2020.

28 Nov 2019

Rittal presents awards to its channel partners

The winners come from Belgium, Italy and Poland • Summit: 50 partners from EMEA discuss the latest trends and challenges in partner/customer lifetime values and edge computing

26 Nov 2019

Conversion tool for compact enclosures AX and small enclosures KX

The new AX and KX series offer countless advantages for users. Rittal offers a variety of practical tools to help them convert their applications to the new series as easily as possible.

29 Oct 2019

The Friedhelm Loh Group is an industry partner to the Gaia-X programme

Gaia-X has launched! At the 2019 Digital Summit on 29 October in Dortmund, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs launched this major European digital project, designed to strengthen industry’s position in the global market. The aim...

10 Oct 2019

The Friedhelm Loh Group supports Limburg-based IoTOs startup

Alongside German Edge Cloud, the startup IoTOS has now also joined the group. The Friedhelm Loh Group known recently announced the 100% takeover

30 Aug 2019

Make cooling units IoT-compatible with ease

The ability of machines and systems to communicate with one another is a basic requirement for Industry 4.0. Rittal now offers a special adaptor for integrating existing Blue e series cooling units into condition monitoring and IoT systems,...