About WERMA

Welcome to WERMA – your innovation partner for leading products and
intelligent system solutions in signalling technology.

With our products and solutions, we help to make working environments safe and efficient. We have been setting the standards for modern signalling technology worldwide for years and offer clever solutions that can be easily and quickly integrated. This not only sustainably optimises processes in industry and logistics, but also saves time and money. That's what we mean by ‘Leading signals. Smart solutions.’

Guiding Principles
Quality Standards
Awards
History
Career

WERMA in Numbers

Sites
worldwide

ca. 400

Employees

>2,5 Mio.

Products produced
anually

10%

R&D Invest
of sales p.a.

Our Guiding Principles

At WERMA, our guiding principles are the benchmark for everything we do. Our focus is on developing products that offer the greatest possible benefit to our customers. We constantly innovate to meet changing requirements. At the same time, we never forget that our employees are the key to our success. Their expertise and dedication are the driving force behind our achievements.

Our Corporate Principles

For our customers

WERMA maintains long-standing customer relationships based on friendly and professional service, high quality products and rapid delivery. Customer specific product developments are implemented using the same strategic approach.

For our employees

Our employees provide the essential ingredient to ensure the success of WERMA. We offer our employees exceptional working conditions and benefits in addition to professional development programmes and a working environment based on trust and respect.

Growth

Within its core markets, WERMA grows at a stronger rate than its competitors and guarantees its presence in all of the important global markets through a network of WERMA subsidiaries.

Innovation

WERMA develops products for the signalling sector in addition to related technologies which offer our customers the maximum degree of user benefit and set new standards in our field. We strive to ensure that our products generate a genuine technological advantage.

Continuous improvement

WERMA follows a policy of continuous improvement for all company departments.

Profitability

WERMA aims to achieve strong and sustainable levels of profitability. This policy enables us to maintain our long term independence, invest in cutting edge product development.

Shareholder Principles

Family based corporate structure

The WERMA Signaltechnik Group is a family owned company. The commitment of the shareholders is on a long-term basis to ensure the independence of WERMA.Through their respective roles as CEO and Advisory Board members the shareholders exercise a direct influence on the development of the group.

Sustainable increase in the value of the company

In their various capacities and with the means at their disposal, the shareholders contribute substantially to increasing the value of the company. This is defined by an outstanding market position, excellent products, exceptional employees and sustainably good results.

Outstanding working conditions

In order to be able to attract committed, competent and innovative people to WERMA, the shareholders place great value on offering outstanding working conditions and employee benefits, as well as individual options for professional development.

Cultural and social responsibility

The shareholders are committed to the region and especially to the local community of Rietheim-Weilheim. They support cultural and social institutions and contribute in this way to common welfare.

Our Quality Standards

Highest quality is our claim. The highest quality forms the basis for long-term customer relationships and creates trust. In order to manufacture products that our customers are satisfied with, our employees work according to binding and defined quality principles.

In production technology, we utilise the advantages of lean production processes and intelligent automation. This makes us fast and flexible.

Clever solutions that simply work – this has been our goal at WERMA for decades, and customers from all over the world confirm our success day after day. We are setting the standards for modern signal technology - and are also defining their future: for more than twenty years with modular signal towers as the industry standard, and with networked, intelligent system solutions today. The "Made in Germany" label is thereby a guarantee that now allows us to describe ourselves with pride as "Europe's leading signal".
Matthias Marquardt, CEO

Our Awards

Innovations are the driving force for WERMA to further extend the company's technological lead. WERMA carries out both systematic basic and specific product development at the most modern level. All new developments are checked and tested in our own optics and acoustics laboratories. "Made in Germany" is a way of life at WERMA. The success of this innovation policy is proven by many patents, design awards and customer ratings.

In recent years, WERMA has been repeatedly recognised for the excellent design of its products as well as its social and community commitment.

Awards for future and progress

Top Innovator

TOP 100, 2024

This makes WERMA one of the most innovative companies in the German SME sector.

Top Produkt 2022

Readers' Choice of the Konradin Verlag, 2023

Awarded for eSIGN.

Top Innovator

TOP 100, 2020

This makes WERMA one of the most innovative companies in the German SME sector.

Awards for responsibility and environmental awareness

DIN EN ISO 14001:2015

2023

Certificate for environmental management system according to DIN EN ISO 14001:2015.

EcoVadis Silver Medal

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, 2023

DIN EN ISO 9001:2015

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Awards for personality and appreciation

Top Company

kununu, 2024

World's Best Employer

World's Best Employer, 2023

Excellent Employer

TOP JOB, 2023

In German SME companies.

Our History

Decades of family and innovation. Innovative, smart and close to our customers' needs - and has been for many decades. In this way, WERMA is always on the move and grows sustainably and reliably.

But one thing remains the same: WERMA is and will remain family-run for generations by the Marquardt family.

1950

Founded by WERNER and ERICH MARQUARDT. Production of hair dryers and motors.

1953

Special switches for automatic timers are manufactured.

1957

Production of buzzers and horns. Production of hair dryers, motors and automatic timers ceases.

1992

New building construction doubles existing production space.

1994

WERMA presents the world's first modular signal tower, KombiSIGN.

1997

Strong business expansion via new developments, especially of optical signal devices.

1999

WERMA has more than 100 employees. With the KombiSIGN signal tower, the company is the world's second largest signal tower supplier.

2000

WERMA celebrates its 50^th anniversary.

2002

WERMA moves into the largest new building construction in the company history with 3,000 m² of additional work space.

2005

Founding of the subsidiary WERMA (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. with its own production location for Asia. A subsidiary in Switzerland is opened in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.