ZIEHL-ABEGG (Künzelsau, Germany) is one of the leading global companies in the field of ventilation, control and drive technology. In the 1950s, ZIEHL-ABEGG established the basis for modern fan drives: external rotor motors which even today are still seen as state-of-the-art worldwide. Another area of business is electric motors which provide the power, for example, for elevators or medical applications (computer tomography equipment).
ZIEHL-ABEGG employs 3,000 personnel in its production plants in Southern Germany. The company has a global workforce of 5,800 spread between 17 production plants, 30 companies and 114 sales locations. The products, approx. 30,000 in all, are sold in more than 100 countries. Turnover in 2025 totaled more than one billion euros.

Emil Ziehl founded the company in Berlin in 1910 as a manufacturer of electric motors. After the Second World War the company’s headquarters were relocated to Southern Germany.
ZIEHL-ABEGG SE is not a listed company but instead is family-owned.

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