Together with our partners, managers and employees, we have continued to build on the foundation laid by Dipl. Ing. Hans Bibus in 1947 and already further expanded and developed by his son Felix Bibus.
From being exclusively a steel trader, without its own warehouse, the individual company has developed over the decades more and more in the direction of its current three business segments: technology, materials and electronics. The same core competencies are pursued in all three segments: engineering, logistics and services – to differing degrees depending on the business segment.
The value added that we produce for our customers, the tasks that we fulfil for our customers, has fundamentally changed over the decades, always focused on covering the perceived changing needs with appropriate services – internationally. International progress in the area of communications and the associated “general” knowledge of foreign procurement sources have triggered and promoted the first steps for further development, towards new, company-specific expertise. Pure steel trading was slowly replaced by the addition of new technological products requiring explanation or engineering. The step form the individual company to a corporate group was complete.
The Swiss market alone proved to be too small over the years of successful growth. The disappearance of borders in Europe, but especially of the “iron borders” in the direction of Eastern Europe, promoted the strategy for growth beyond the borders of Switzerland. The simultaneous internationalisation of the activities of our formerly exclusively Swiss customers and their support also at other locations supported its implementation. Care of existing customers and the acquisition of new customers and partners in new markets shape the activities of our subsidiaries also outside Switzerland: extend established, proven relationship and supplement with new one – on the side of the customer and on the side of the delivery partners. The increasingly strong group is expanded in Eastern and Western Europe by establishing further new locations.
The product range is not the same in each of the subsidiaries – but each one offers the same services as core competencies: engineering, logistics, services – and each of the companies has access to the know-how and resources of the whole group. For the customers, the delivery partners and for the employees a concept which has led and will in the future lead to long-term, successful partnerships. We are all expanding further together – new products, new markets, new relationships.
Conrad M. Ulrich-Bibus
Christian Bibus
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Electronics |
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We have 50 years of experience in the fields of pneumatics, machine elements, electrical engineering/electronics, automation and hydraulics. We sell systems and components of renowned manufacturers. As technically qualified trading company, we offer expert advice and deliver the right products of the required quality on the agreed delivery date at a fair market price. The customer-centred in-house sales support and broad stock-keeping guarantee fast order processing. The companies of the BIBUS group in the technology segment are ideally equipped for the development and production as well as for the packaging of special components. The hydraulics segment has core competencies in custom plant and assembly construction – from the prototype to series production – as well as in the development and assembly of complete assemblies and drive systems for stationary and mobile applications. State-of-the-art test benches enable simulations, series and individual tests of components and complete systems. |
The BIBUS companies in the materials segment, SAUTER EDELSTAHL, BIBUS METALS, KNEUBÜHLER ING and BIBUS-UTO STAHL as well as their subsidiaries are internationally active trading companies which supply the machine and aircraft industry, the metalworking industry, the building industry and related trades, the chemical and food industry, electronics and electrical engineering, environmental, gas and water industries. Being customer-centred is the driving force of our market solutions. Our range consists of high quality products from the sectors of stainless steel, aluminium, titanium and nickel as well as their alloys, welding material, centrifugal casting, metallurgic specialities and products for superstructures and bases of rail-bound vehicles. |
High-tech made in Switzerland. MPL AG, based in Dättwil/Switzerland develops and produces high quality industrial PCs and systems based on the needs of industry, which are used worldwide. The success story of the company is based on the concept: minimum power consumption, an extended temperature range and a robust design. The solutions are innovative, with guaranteed long-term availability, without fans and therefore low maintenance and unique. Due to the high quality, the products and solutions which have proven themselves a thousand times over are frequently used in the harshest industrial environments – but also in medical, transport and marine technology, in aeronautics, space and defence technology – everywhere a really reliable product is needed. |