On January 9, Hans Turck, co-founder of the automation specialist Turck, celebrated his 90th birthday. The birthday celebrant, who has lived alternately in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Cape Town since his retirement from the company in 1998, started the day together with his wife in South Africa, his adopted country.
His outgoing personality and openness, his outstanding sales skills and his ability to enthuse his customers, paved the way for Turck to become a successful entrepreneur. After completing his engineering degree in 1950, he gained 10 years experience in sales before setting up his own engineering office in Mülheim, from which Hans Turck GmbH later developed. In 1965 Hans Turck sold his first product – an amplifier module that his brother Werner had produced.
From 1968 Hermann Hermes supported as a partner the activities of the growing company which had already taken up the challenges of globalisation before the term had ever come into use. In 1975, Turck founded a subsidiary in the USA which became a market leader in the field of inductive sensors and connectivity products. Today the Turck Group has over 3350 employees in 27 national subsidiaries. The group turnover in 2013 was around 450 million euros.
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