Gefran (GFRN)

Gefran S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, and sale of automation components and industrial sensors in Italy, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and internationally. The company offers a range of power controllers, solid state relays, and motor start products for controlling linear and non-linear resistive loads, infrared lamps, and transformers; and controllers and programmers, and indicators and alarm units suitable for measuring and controlling the main industrial process variables. It also provides temperature sensors, including thermocouples and resistance thermometers used in measuring temperatures in the industrial sector; strain and force sensors for measuring compression, tensile, bending, and deformation forces; pressure transducers and transmitters for measuring the pressure of fluids in industrial and mobile hydraulics markets; and position sensors, such as linear and angular position transducers used for detecting the position of mechanical parts in motion. In addition, the company provides application platforms comprising GF_Project VX, an integrated development environment (IDE) for real time control applications based on based on a VX Works operating system; GF_Designer HD, a development environment for Gefran eView HD and GF Connect products; and GF_Project LX, an IDE for real time control applications based on Gefran Gf_Project LX, as well as offers edge controllers, HMI terminals, panel PCs and CPUs, and keyboards. Further, it is involved in the technical feasibility study, electrical and mechanical engineering for industrial automation cabinets, PLC and Scada software development, electrical switchboard production, functional testing and cabinet safety verification, machine board wiring, on-site start-up and commissioning, and after-sales assistance activities. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Provaglio D'iseo, Italy. Gefran S.p.A. operates as a subsidiary of Fingegran Srl.