AUMA celebrates 60 years of success

1. July 2025, Reading time: 3 min

As a leading global supplier of electric actuators, AUMA looks back on 60 successful years of innovation, reliable partnerships, and growth. In September 2024, the company celebrated its 60th anniversary with more than 3,000 invited guests at its headquarters in Muellheim, Germany. Throughout the day, the guests enjoyed a diverse programme and the culinary delights of numerous food trucks. Visitors saw the modern production facilities on tours of the factory halls. There was entertainment for the many children on the company’s own soccer pitch with a bouncy castle, human table football and lots of games.

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Enjoying the 60th anniversary celebrations: AUMA co-founder Werner Riester (centre) with the current General Management, CSO Ferdinand Dirnhofer (left) and CEO Dr. Jörg Hoffmann (right).
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“We would like to thank our employees,” said CEO Dr. Jörg Hoffmann and CSO Ferdinand Dirnhofer. “AUMA’s success is the result of many years of hard work, loyalty and a high level of commitment for our customers from all our employees.”
When the company was founded in 1964, it already bore the brand name AUMA and a clear business plan. Armaturen- Und Maschinen-Antriebe – AUMA for short – would become a manufacturer of electric actuators for industrial valves. Werner Riester was responsible for R&D while Rudolf Dinse looked after sales and finance.
“I was always convinced that our company would be successful,” said company co-founder Werner Riester, “but I would never have thought that we would one day become the global market leader for electric actuators.”

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For decades, AUMA‘s robust and versatile actuators have been used successfully in challenging hydropower applications worldwide.
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Proven in hydropower

Today, AUMA has over 2 800 employees worldwide and a turnover of more than half a billion euros. For decades, AUMA‘s robust and versatile actuators have been successfully used worldwide in a wide variety of hydropower applications, from all kinds of water level con­trol applications for fish ladders, sluice gates, weirs, dams, and locks to precise turbine control. In addition, AUMA actuators play a key role in many other challenging applications in water and wastewater management, flood protection, energy generation, the oil and gas industry, and the process industries. Thanks to a global sales and service network with offices in more than 70 countries, AUMA has a strong global presence.

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Visitors explored AUMA’s modern production facilities at its headquarters in Muellheim, Germany.
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