A generations-old success principle

50 years of VEGA – 50 years of precision work.
  
Already during the first years of the company, VEGA employees worked with passion on level measurement technology, which was still a young science back in those days.
 
Today they develop and produce modern, high-precision measuring instruments with the same passion.
 
Here in the Black Forest, the home of VEGA, one principle has always applied when it comes to inventions: if they are to gain acceptance, they have to be useful, effective and reliable. This principle has brought success in the Black Forest for centuries. And at VEGA for five decades. We’ve had a part in making the term “Black Forest precision” a concept known to the whole world. We’ll make sure that it stays that way.

1st Decade
 

1959
Bruno Grieshaber founds VEGA

1964
Patent application “Currentoriented measurement”

1966
Foundation of the first external subsidiary: VEGA Meet- en Regeltechniek, Netherlands

1967
Patent application “Capacitive electrode”

The transistor inverter VEGASTAT becomes a sales hit

2nd Decade

1973
Production start of pressure transmitters for continuous level measurement of liquid media

1975
Move to Schiltach with 100 employees

1976
Manufacture of the ultrasonic measuring instrument VEGASON

1979
Production start of vibrating probes, e.g. VEGAVIB

3rd Decade

1980
First microprocessor controlled VEGAMET introduced at “Interkama”

1982
VEGA expands: more room for laboratory, engineering, purchasing and training

1984
The quality assurance department is created, EDP is expanded

1985
Federal Cross of Merit for company founder Bruno Grieshaber

1986
Expansion: a new five-story building

1987
Purchase of Fibronix Sensoren GmbH, Kiel (ceramic technology)

1988
Economic Medal of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg for Bruno Grieshaber

4th Decade

1989
VEGA receives the “Prix de Promotion”

1993
New area of business: process and differential pressure

1993
Certification according to ISO 9001

1997
Construction of an own water turbine on the Kinzig for electricity generation

1998
VEGA becomes worldwide market leader in the area of radar with the two-wire radar measuring instrument eric®

5th Decade

1999
New production and administration building in Schiltach

2003
The instrument family plics® is introduced

2004
Delivery of radar instrument No. 100,000

2005
Company founder Bruno Grieshaber dies at the age of 86

2008
Market leader in radar level measurement of bulk solids with the sensors VEGAPULS 67 and 68

2009
VEGA celebrates its 50th birthday