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Hilscher and Emil Löffelhardt Enter Strategic Partnership to Optimize the German Market
Hattersheim, 15 September 2026 – Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH (Hilscher) and Emil Löffelhardt GmbH & Co. KG (EL) have entered into a strategic partnership to open up new sales channels. Effective immediately, customers can purchase Hilscher products such as cifX PC cards, gateways, netMIRROR, and, in the future, IIoT solutions such as netFIELD gateways directly through EL's online store and branches.
With this partnership, Hilscher is consistently focusing on optimizing its already high product availability, further increasing customer satisfaction, making order processing even more efficient and expanding its market coverage in Germany.
Local distributor with leading expertise in automation
Through its cooperation with EL, Hilscher gains expanded access to a broad range of target groups in development, automation and maintenance. As a regional specialist for Germany, this distributor for electrical and automation technology combines a network of branches with a modern digital purchasing portal and extensive expertise in customer outreach and logistics.
Customers now benefit from flexible purchasing options for all order quantities, directly through EL’s online store or at local branches. Larger order volumes and more extensive project orders will continue to be handled directly by Hilscher.
These Hilscher products are available from EL
By expanding our sales channels through EL, we are making Hilscher solutions more accessible to developers, automation specialists, and maintenance teams across Germany. The combination of EL’s local branches and the digital purchasing platform gives customers more flexibility in how they source our products, while allowing us to reach additional target groups with our industrial communication solutions.
Jörg Zimmermann
Senior Partner Manager
Hilscher
About Emil Löffelhardt GmbH & Co. KG
Emil Löffelhardt GmbH & Co. KG is an owner-managed electrical wholesale company headquartered in Schorndorf. For more than a century, the name Löffelhardt has stood for reliability, expertise, and partnership. In 2026, the company is celebrating its 120th anniversary. With a total of 21 locations in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Löffelhardt now employs around 620 people, including approximately 70 apprentices and students. As a wholesaler, Löffelhardt supplies manufacturing industry, public authorities, electrical retailers, and electrical trades throughout Germany, including through online systems. With its own online store, interfaces to specialized user applications, and configurators, its product range is available 24/7.
Löffelhardt is one of the leading electrical wholesalers in Baden-Württemberg. Its broad product portfolio, which includes a regional range tailored to specific requirements, is ideally aligned with customer needs. With its own specialist advisor concept and a large number of field sales employees, Löffelhardt staff provide customers with expert advice and support based on extensive technical knowledge, helping them find the ideal individual solution. Everything is focused on customer needs and the respective processes.
For more information, visit www.loeffelhardt.de
About Hilscher
Hilscher is the leading technology and solution provider in industrial communication. Hilscher products and solutions automate machines to communicate with each other globally—fast and secure—so that production and processes run smoothly. From hardware to the cloud—Hilscher’s industry 4.0 technology makes it possible. This opens up a whole new range of possibilities when it comes to connectivity, giving customers access to a wider market. Hilscher’s core products include multiprotocol communication controllers netX, related components such as embedded modules, cifX PC cards, and the edge management platform netFIELD.
Hilscher was founded in 1986 in Hattersheim/Main and has since grown into an internationally operating company with more than 400 employees at 13 locations worldwide. Hilscher is driven by its passion for technological innovation through its experience and know-how, and motivation to always find the best solution for industrial communication of the future.
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