President Barack Obama visits the Rittal Stand at Hannover Messe 2016‏

The USA was selected as this year’spartner country for the Hanover expo, which is now the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology. Rittal currently equips some of the largest data centres in the world. “We are Europe’s number one provider of engineering software,and we want to keep on growing,” says Dr. Friedhelm Loh, Owner and CEO, who also highlighted to both leaders theimportance of software and data in future industrial production.

The US President showed considerable interest in the Blue e+cooling unit, commenting at one point; “This is a fine company!” Chancellor Merkel, meanwhile, appeared particularly enthused bythe Friedhelm Loh Group’s commitment to training young, up-and-coming, talent and she also spoke warmly of Rittal’s determination to integrate refugees into its regular training programme – a firstin Germany.

Rittal has set ambitious goals for itself in the United States withplans to double its sales in this important market over the next few years. “We have been active in America for more than 30 years, and are particularly proud that 85% of our products are made in theUSA”, stressed Gregg Holst, President of the Rittal Corporationin the United States. Rittal currently employs 750 members of staff at its US operations,which are headquartered in Chicago.