Landis + Gyr celebrates 50 years of its state-of-the-art production unit in Greece

2022 is a special year for Landis + Gyr as it honors its 50 years of presence in Greece. The Group’s European leadership team visited the group’s production facilities in Corinth to honor the event and, on the occasion, organized a meeting of executives to review the top priorities and identify important initiatives to achieve the next goals in the direction of functional excellence.

The visit comes after a successful financial year for Landis + Gyr. With, among other things, 11 million electricity meters in France’s Enedis and 2.5 million in Belgium’s Fluvius, the EMEA region contributed $ 590.1 million to the company’s total revenue of $ 1,464.0 million worldwide, with its custom EBDA area to $ 25.7 million. Landis + Gyr was also recognized as the Advanced Measuring Infrastructure (AMI) company of the year for 2022 by Frost & Sullivan for creating significant value and technological innovations in the industry. Following the announcement of the company’s goal of achieving a neutral environmental footprint by 2030, Landis + Gyr contributed to the fiscal year 2021 to avoid carbon dioxide emissions in excess of nine million tonnes, while joining the Science Based Target (SBTi) initiative for further reduction of emissions.

Landis + Gyr has been operating in Greece since 1972 and today has more than 550 employees in Corinth. After further investment in recent years, the state-of-the-art facility has more than 30 automated production lines for the production of smart electricity and gas meters and has an annual production capacity of more than six million meters. Adhering to the highest levels of safety in design and construction, the installation meets the latest ISO standards in quality management, environmental management, occupational health and safety and information security.

“Our mission is to help our customers navigate the energy transition – from the adoption of renewable energy sources and the charging of electric vehicles, to ensuring the reliability of the distribution network. For this reason, our portfolio in the field of Management Services “Energy includes smart meters, smart grid systems and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles,” said Bodo Zeug, Executive Vice President and Head of Landis + Gyr EMEA. “Our production facility in Corinth is particularly important in this regard, as it helps us utilize the latest technology in production to offer scale innovation, not only in Europe but also in our global markets.”

As the largest Landis + Gyr plant in Europe and the second largest in the world after its plant in Mexico, the Corinth plant has undertaken the manufacture of household and industrial meters until recently produced in Zug, Switzerland and Stockport in the United Kingdom. . The plant currently manufactures all modern domestic and industrial smart electricity and gas meters, including the recently released E360 LTE and E660, sold in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. , Slovenia, while there is a growing demand from other Network Operators of EMEA countries.

“We are proud of our strong presence in Greece for half a century”, adds the CEO of Landis + Gyr Greece Aristidis Pappas. “The experience and know-how we have accumulated over this period will enable us to provide smart meters that help utilities and countries around the world upgrade their energy infrastructure and achieve their sustainable development goals.”