Sprecher Automation: This is us!
One Philosophy – 16 Locations – More than 750 Employees
Sprecher Automation provides products and solutions for power supply and process automation. We secure critical infrastructures and optimise complex energy and industry processes.
Our customers are local as well as international power utilities, industries, transportation companies, municipal utilities and public institutions. We serve them ourselves via our locations or via selected and certified local contractual system partners.
Quality, availability and security – those are not only our customers's requirements, but also goals we are striving for. Due to that, for example, the hard- and software development are located in Austria and Germany. We produce exclusively in Austria – starting with the production of single elements, to system checks and practical inhouse testing.
Austrian company in private hands
~ 750 employees
~ 30 % of Sprecher Automation’s employees
are silent partners
16 locations
Company HQ in Linz / AT
We produce exclusively in Austria
Local engineering & services
An important part of our company's philosophy are our guidelines, which apply in all our departments, from development over production to administration.
We grow sensibly, sustainably and by our own efforts
Future-oriented thinking and acting are more important to us than profit maximisation
We produce exclusively in Austria
Our employees are the basis of our success – and we honour that
We live innovation. More than 30 % of our engineers permanently work in R&D
We operate internationally
We have the ideal “size“.
We are big enough for demanding projects. And we are small enough
to respond to customer needs flexibly and individually.
The roots of Sprecher Automation date back to the year 1900. Then, for the first time, the name “Sprecher” was introduced to the industrial world by “Sprecher & Schuh”, a factory for electric devices. Today’s Sprecher Automation was formed in 2002 through a management buy-out of the former ALSTOM Austria AG, the successor of Sprecher & Schuh.
- 1900 Aarau, Switzerland: Karl Sprecher founded "Sprecher & Schuh, Fabrik elektrischer Apparate"
- 1912 Linz, Austria: On the site of today's headquarters, the first foreign subsidiary has been founded. Until the 1980ies, the company was very succesful with energy systems and automation solutions.
- 1986 Take-over of the energy sector through the French owner. The following years are characterised by different company names: Sprecher Energie, GEC Alsthom, ALSTOM.
- 2001 In Paris, the decision was made to close the location Linz. This would have meant that 160 employees would have lost their jobs. Today's CEO Erwin Raffeiner and some of his management colleagues took the brave step and took over the location.
- 2002 The Sprecher Automation GmbH emerged from the former structure through a management buy-out.
Since then, many new subsidiaries has been founded. The order intake exceeded the 100 million mark in the 2020/2021 financial year and, with around 650 employees, Sprecher Automation now employs four times as many people as in the founding year 2002.
- 2004 Swidnica / Polen: Sprecher Automation Polska Sp. z o.o.
- 2006 Vienna / Austria
- 2006 - 2010 Berlin, Munich, Dortmund & Erfurt / Germany: Sprecher Automation Deutschland GmbH
- 2007 Bratislava / Slovakia: Sprecher Automation spol. s r.o.o.
- 2014 Oud Gastel (today: Etten-Leur) / The Netherlands: Sprecher Automation Nederland B.V.
- 2016 Aarau / Switzerland: Thanks to Sprecher Automation Schweiz AG, the company is back to its historical roots, the subsidiary lies in the immediate vicinity of the original location in the year 1900.
- 2019 Dubai / UAE: Sprecher Automation Middle East FZCO, Hagenberg / Austria
- 2023 Linz Raimundstrasse, Linz Neubauzeile / Austria
- 2025 Linz Hafenstrasse