Carlo Gavazzi sits at the intersection of industrial automation and building automation—a position few electronics groups occupy with equal competence. Founded in Milan in 1931 and now headquartered in Steinhausen, Switzerland, the company has spent over nine decades building a portfolio that serves OEM machine builders and facility managers alike. Its product range includes solid state relays, inductive and capacitive sensors (many with integrated IO-Link communication), energy meters for both DC and AC applications, monitoring relays, soft starters, and the UWP 4.0 IoT energy management platform.

The company operates ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified manufacturing facilities in Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, and China, with products marketed through 23 wholly owned sales companies and approximately 60 independent distributors worldwide. Carlo Gavazzi Holding AG has been publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1984 (ticker: GAV). Typical applications span packaging machinery, plastic injection molding, food and beverage production, material handling, HVAC systems, and the fast-growing EV charging and distributed energy storage sectors. For procurement professionals and engineers seeking European-engineered automation components with global availability and a reputation for reliable, no-nonsense performance, Carlo Gavazzi offers a proven alternative to both premium-priced and entry-level brands.