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{{primary sources|date=August 2012}}
{{COI|date=July 2020}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Bosch Rexroth AG
| logo = File:Logo of Bosch Rexroth AG.svg
| type = [[Aktiengesellschaft|AG]]
| foundation = 1 May 2001
| location_city = [[Lohr am Main]]
| location_country = [[Germany]]
| key_people = Rolf Najork <br><small>Chairman of the Executive Board</small>
| industry = Mobile applications, Machinery Applications and Engineering, Factory automation
| products = Hydraulics, Electric Drives & Controls, Tightening Systems, Linear Motion, Assembly Technologies
| revenue = {{increase}} €6.2 billion (2019) <ref name="Facts and Figures">{{cite web| url=https://www.boschrexroth.com/en/xc/company/about-bosch-rexroth/facts-figures/facts-and-figures| title=Facts and Figures {{!}} Bosch Rexroth AG| accessdate=2020-11-13}}</ref>
| num_employees = 31,000 (2019) <ref name="Facts and Figures" />
| parent = Robert Bosch GmbH
| homepage = [http://www.boschrexroth.com www.boschrexroth.com]
}}

'''Bosch Rexroth AG''' is an engineering firm based in [[Lohr am Main]] in [[Germany]]. It is the result of a [[merger]] on 1 May 2001 between [[Mannesmann]] Rexroth AG and the Automation Technology Business Unit of [[Robert Bosch GmbH]], and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=https://www.boschrexroth.com/en/xc/company/about-bosch-rexroth/facts-figures/history/history|title=History {{!}} Bosch Rexroth AG|accessdate=2020-11-13}}</ref> Bosch Rexroth employs over 31,000 people worldwide, and achieved total revenue of 6.2 billion euro in 2019.<ref name="Facts and Figures" />

==Brands==
Rexroth in turn consisted of a number of individual brands that were the result of acquisitions. They include:
* Indramat GmbH
* Mannesmann AG
* Rexroth AG
* Hydromatik GmbH
* Brueninghaus GmbH
* Lohmann & Stolterfoht GmbH
* Deutsche Star / Star Linear
* Mecman Pneumatics
* Uchida
* Hägglunds

==Products and markets==
Bosch Rexroth's slogan is "The Drive & Control Company". It manufactures products and systems associated with the control and motion of industrial and mobile equipment.<ref name="Products">{{cite web | url=https://www.boschrexroth.com/en/xc/products/index|title=Products {{!}} Bosch Rexroth AG|accessdate=2020-11-13}}</ref>

In 2017, the company announced a partnership with [[Trumpf]] and [[Heraeus]] to build servo valves using the former's TruPrint 5000 laser powder additive manufacturing machines to build a [[servo valve]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://optics.org/news/8/11/25|title=Trumpf makes additive play with triple-laser fusion system for metals|last=Ltd|first=SPIE Europe|website=optics.org|access-date=2018-08-24}}</ref>

==History==
{{prose|section|date=July 2012}}
The company has its roots in 1795, when the Rexroth family established an [[iron]] [[forge]].<ref name="History" /> Milestones include:

{|
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1795 || The Rexroth family, with roots in the [[Spessart]] region of Germany, acquires the ''Höllhammer'', a water-driven forge in the valley of the Elsava in what is now [[Heimbuchenthal]], Germany.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1850 || The company acquires the Steinschen iron foundry in [[Lohr am Main]], Germany. Established transportation connections via rail and inland ship.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1930 || Development of a new [[Cupola furnace]]
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1945 || Reestablishment after the end of [[World War II]] with the manufacture of cookware, pans, and irons, later also butcher machinery.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1952 || Start of production of standardized hydraulic components.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1965 || Acquired Indramat GmbH ([[Neuwied]] am Rhein), moving it to Lohr am Main. This expanded the product offering to include electric control technology.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1968 || [[Mannesmann AG]] invests in Rexroth.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1972 || Acquisition of Hydromatik GmbH ([[Elchingen]], Germany), a supplier of hydraulic axial piston pumps and motors.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1976 || Rexroth becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Mannesmann AG. Acquisition of Brueninghaus GmbH ([[Horb am Neckar]]), and supplier of hydraulic axial piston pumps and motors.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1977 || Acquisition of Lohmann & Stolterfoht GmbH ([[Witten]], Germany), a gearing and coupling supplier.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1987 || Acquisition of Deutsche Star GmbH ([[Schweinfurt]], Germany), a supplier of linear technology.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1989 || Expansion into the business area of Pneumatics through Rexroth Pneumatik GmbH ([[Hannover]], Germany).
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 1998 || Transformation of Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH into a stock corporation.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 2000 || Acquisition of REFU elektronik GmbH ([[Metzingen]], Germany), a [[frequency converter]] manufacturer.
|-

|style="vertical-align:top;"| 2001 || Spin off of the Automation Technology group of Robert Bosch GmbH & merger with Mannesmann Rexroth AG, forming a new company called Bosch Rexroth AG.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 2005 || Acquisition of Oil Control Group consisting of Oil Control, EDI System, Oleodinamica LC, Oil Sistem, and TARP.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 2008 || Merger of the mobile and industrial service groups into a new product group "Service Hydraulics“.
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"| 2011 || Acquisition of Hägglunds AB.
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{official website}}

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