Elster-Instromet creates novel concepts with Integrated Metering Solutions to give you with an effective and constructive solution for your upstream and midstream gas quality and gas volume measurement concerns. Elster is the world’s market leader in high-precision down-stream gas monitoring and control.
Process Solutions can be found at Process Solutions. In the gas, electricity, and water industries, Elster Group is a world pioneer in AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure), integrated measurement and usage solutions. Elster’s high-quality products, services, and solutions represent the company’s wealth of knowledge and expertise gathered over 170 years of precise resource consumption assessment. Power supply firms can benefit from Elster’s innovative solutions and technology. Improved customer service, increased operational efficiency, and more consumer benefits are all advantages for energy suppliers.
Elster-Instromet and Elster American Meter are global suppliers of metre and smart metre systems, as well as communication modules for the head end system. Elster Perfection also offers a full line of gas distribution devices that enable installers to create safe and quick connections from “main to metre” and “tank to residence.”
Elster’s AMI solutions help key energy suppliers manage and maintain a high degree of cost-effectiveness in their gas, electricity, and water resources. The company employs about 7,000 people in more than 38 countries, mostly in Europe, North America, and Asia.
A History of Constant Innovations
Elster is the only firm that can offer natural gas goods, systems, and solutions across the worldwide gas market. With our best-in-class products and solutions for measurement, regulation, and the safe management and use of gases, we have engineered the crucial linkages between integral infrastructure, technologies, and communities for more than 175 years.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the gas industry grew. Initially, gas town was utilised to light up the streets. In 1856, the first gas works in Bratislava were created.
With the rise of gas applications, it was necessary to begin measuring gas consumption with gas metres. Samuel Clengg, an Englishman, created the first gas metre in 1815. It turned out to be a wet displacement metre. The first dry gas metre was invented by John Maclam in 1820, and Wiliam Richards created a dry gas metre with two chambers and valves in 1843. This approach has been used in gas metres up till now.
In 1922, gas metres were first manufactured on Slovakian soil. The first gas metre was made in the Bratislava factory of the Michera brothers. Gas metre manufacturing was transferred to Povaské strojárne (machine plant) after WWII, and it has been placed in Presná mechanika, n.p. Stará Turá since 1952. Presná mechanika, a national firm, was absorbed into the industrial concern Chirana Stará Turá in 1965.
The manufacturing of gas metres was split into an independent business named Premagas s.r.o. in 1992, as part of the privatisation of the joint-stock firm Chirana-Prema, a.s. Elster AG Mess- und Regeltechnik, based in Mainz, Germany, became the primary owner of Premagas s.r.o. in 1993. Elster has been the sole proprietor of the firm since 2002. In 2007, the name of the company was changed to Elster s.r.o. from Premagas s.r.o.
Water metres were first manufactured in 2005, followed by regulators in 2006.
Honeywell has acquired Elster s.r.o.
Leadership
Elster GmbH’s fortunes are led by Ulrich Clasemann. Ulrich has a long history of business and management experience as a production manager and managing director of complex, internationally positioned, medium-sized corporate groups in a variety of shareholder structures (private equity, listed companies, large American corporation), and is known for his strong results-oriented approach, paired with pronounced professional and social competence, and an effective hands-on mentality.
He is an expert in corporate management, operations, engineering, quality, buying, logistics, R&D, and global change management and restructuring.
Ulrich is at ease engaging with business partners and workers from many cultures and countries, and he has demonstrated significant success in improving the efficiency of whole corporate networks and interlaced value generation processes. Ulrich is also a Certified Six Sigma Core Green Belt.
