Aged 20 years, Otto Eckerle already founded his first company in 1935 based in Malsch. In the starting years, the company was engaged in the design and construction of operating equipment and special machines for metal pr......Aged 20 years, Otto Eckerle already founded his first company in 1935 based in Malsch. In the starting years, the company was engaged in the design and construction of operating equipment and special machines for metal processing. This was soon followed by patents in the field of motor vehicle carburettor technology and for devices to run motor vehicles using wood gas, petrol and light diesel oil. The development of the company turned out to be positive by February 1945 when its manufacturing plant – only built in 1942 – was destroyed by bombs. Operations were then resumed in temporary facilities first, while simultaneously managing the reconstruction of the destroyed manufacturing plant. Draft of internal combustion engineIn the following years, the innovative phase, marked by fundamental developments and patent applications, set in, especially for the fully compensated external gear pump as well as, later on at the beginning of the 1960s, for the entirely new type of radial and axial compensated internal gear pump. These revolutionary developments for industrial and mobile hydraulics not only made Otto Eckerle known worldwide, but they earned him licence agreements with well-known companies in Europe and Asia. In 1963, the sister company GOTEC S. A. in Sion, Switzerland, was founded. Today, Eckerle Industrie-Elektronik purchases from this company central fuel feed systems as well as piston pumps for various applications. System ECKERLE, first internal gear pump patented in 1968, IPH production series The issue of the patent led to the success of the IPH production series and to worldwide recognition. In 1983, the company Eckerle Industrie-Elektronik GmbH was founded, whereby a completely new business field was entered. In the meantime, the company is also successfully represented on the lighting market with electronic components. On top of that, it designs and produces electronic units for many applications. After the partnership with a big company turned out to be a fail-ure, the Hydraulic Division of Eckerle Industrie-Elektronik GmbH was set up again in 1997. Today, with its core product of “high pressure internal gear pumps”, the division is active again on the global market
