BEHA Group of companies

The family-owned company Beha celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024, the story of a classic medium-sized company built with a great deal of entrepreneurial spirit, courage, and ingenuity.

Since its foundation, it has successfully pursued two business areas: innovative conveyor technology (future cluster: automation) and user-friendly measuring devices for electricians (future cluster: electrification).

The Beha family pursues a cross-generational corporate strategy based on the pillars of people, quality, and innovation.

Test instruments for electricians

The “UNITEST” test instrument division of Beha was founded in the early 1970s and expanded internationally very early on, with its own plants in Ireland and China. As a premium brand for the electrical wholesalers, it became known primarily in the D-A-CH region.

In the 1990s, a second division was established under the name “Ireland Meter Electronics” (IME), to supply the hardware stores’ own brands with OEM products. As a result of increasing international competition due to globalization, the “UNITEST” brand division was sold to the world market leader Fluke in 2003, in order to enable further growth and development for “UNITEST”.

The second business unit working as an OEM / ODM manufacturer of test instruments was gradually build first under “IME” and later under “HDT”. Today the OEM / ODM test instrument business is what the Beha companies operating under „HDT“ are doing quite sucessfully.

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TPU profiles and conveyor belts for drive and conveyor technology

The „BEHAbelt“ division, which emerged from a research project and a general agency, was a profit centre within the company in the early years. The company very quickly gained a reputation as a problem solver and innovator. Among other things, specially developed welding equipment, for which patents were successfully filed in the 1990s, contributed to this.

Following the sale of the „UNITEST“ brand business in 2003, the „BEHAbelt“ division was further expanded. In 2005, we developed into a fully integrated brand manufacturer by insourcing our own production.

Internationalisation followed in leaps and bounds, as did the expansion of the portfolio to include conveyor belts and other innovative welding technology products under the heading „smart conveying“.

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