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Kundinger Controls exclusive B&R partner in Michigan

In February 2011, B&R Industrial Automation appointed Kundinger Controls to their ranks of partners in North America.

Kundinger, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, distributes, designs, engineers, manufactures, installs, and provides ongoing service support for virtually any machine application and every type of customer. Michigan will be a new B&R partner location next to offices in Illinois, Wisconsin Ohio and Indiana.

“With the addition of Kundinger Controls to our partner network in North America we will strengthen B&R’s presence in the Midwest enormously,” states Marc Ostertag, President B&R North America. “Kundinger is a reputable name in Michigan for a half-century and their sales and engineering team offers long lasting partnerships with their customers and a high degree of expertise in custom solutions.”

Achieving complete and uniform machine control solutions is the primary focus for B&R and Kundinger. From initial specification through installation and startup, Kundinger provides complete service and support for all their automation, control and measurement products as well as with their engineered solutions. The main markets for Kundinger are OEM equipment manufactures in automotive, plastic, metal, printing, packaging, food & beverage and test systems. Kundinger also supports customers in the research & development, water & wastewater, system integration and power generation markets.

Brian Kundinger, President of Kundinger Controls affirms: “The addition of B&R products to our lineup will give us many new and exciting tools, from integrated I/O & control systems, HMIs, industrial PCs and PLCs to complete motion control systems, we can now offer a complete integrated solution to help our customers become more competitive in this global market.” Kundinger continues: “We are especially excited to become B&R’s exclusive partner because we are celebrating our 50th year in Business here in Michigan. B&R’s philosophy of ‘Perfection in Automation’ coupled with their high quality products ensure a solution which is uniquely focused on the customer’s needs and fits synergistically with the objectives my father envisioned when he started our business back in 1961.”
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