Gefran

Gefran is an Italian industrial automation company whose work centers on sensors, systems, and components for industrial processes. The company describes expertise in designing and manufacturing solutions for industrial automation, including tailored systems for specific applications. Its stated areas of particular expertise include plastics, mobile machinery, and metalworking. Its product range includes industrial sensors and pressure transducers, power controllers and solid-state relays, and automation and operator-interface equipment. The company also offers digital products: MAX, an IoT platform for machine monitoring and predictive analysis, and GAIA, a generative-AI virtual assistant intended to support production operations. Its power-control products address electrical heating and other process-control needs, while its automation portfolio includes panel PCs, CPUs, HMIs, and remote I/O products. Gefran presents its work in terms of process quality, flexibility, and industrial performance. Its digital solutions emphasize monitoring, predictive maintenance, production management, and resource and energy efficiency. The company’s website also lists international trade fairs and industry events, consistent with a business serving industrial customers across markets. Gefran is headquartered in Provaglio d'Iseo, Italy, and is a publicly traded Italian company. The available sources do not establish a current parent company, owner, or named founder.

Gefran is an Italian industrial automation company headquartered in Provaglio d'Iseo. Public company information identifies 1969 as its founding year; the supplied material does not name a founder. The company’s business is associated with the development and manufacture of sensors, systems, and components for industrial automation and process control. Its portfolio covers sensing and measurement, control of industrial processes, and automation equipment. The supplied homepage highlights draw-wire sensors, pressure sensors, and melt-pressure transducers. Other official product pages describe power-control equipment for resistive loads, infrared lamps, and transformers, including power controllers, solid-state relays, and motor starters. The company also describes panel PCs, CPUs, HMI terminals, and remote I/O as part of its automation offering. Gefran identifies plastics, mobile machinery, and metal as industries in which it has particular expertise. Its stated approach includes developing tailored solutions for specific applications, with process quality and flexibility among its distinguishing factors. The range of industrial use cases represented by its products includes measurement and monitoring, electrical heating control, and integration with automation and supervisory systems. The company has extended its offering into digital industrial services. MAX is presented as an IoT platform for machine monitoring and predictive analysis, with capabilities including real-time monitoring, bottleneck analysis, OEE optimization, maintenance support, and resource-consumption optimization. GAIA is presented as a generative-AI virtual assistant for operators and managers, with multilingual contextual responses and integration options that include web, apps, HMI, or enterprise software. Gefran operates as a public Italian company. Its website promotes international events and exhibitions, including events in India, China, and Germany. The supplied homepage also carries a dated announcement about growth through the acquisition of Brazilian industrial automation company Novus; because the date shown is August 29, 2026, that item is recorded as a website announcement rather than treated here as independently verified completion of the transaction. The supplied sources do not identify a current parent company, ultimate owner, founder, or named executive.

• 2026

  Homepage reports Novus acquisition announcement

• 1969

  Gefran founded

An industrial automation and process-control supplier combining sensing hardware, control components, automation products, and digital tools, with a focus on plastics, mobile machinery, and metal industries.

• MAX

  An IoT platform for machine monitoring and predictive analysis, including real-time monitoring, OEE optimization, maintenance support, and resource optimization.

• GAIA

  A generative-AI virtual assistant offering contextual, multilingual support for production management and integration with web, apps, HMI, or enterprise software.

• Power-control solutions

  Power controllers, solid-state relays, and motor starters for industrial heating and related applications.

• Industrial automation equipment

  Panel PCs, CPUs, HMI terminals, remote I/O, and related software and accessories.

• Announced international growth through a proposed acquisition of NovusOther

• 2026.08.30

  Reported2026.08.30

  Gefran signs agreement to acquire Novus for €35.8 million[5]杰佛伦签署协议以3580万欧元收购Novusquibrescia.it

  Gefran signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the share capital of Novuspar Participações Societárias Ltda., the holding company of Brazilian industrial automation firm Novus, at an enterprise value of 215 million Brazilian reais (about €35.8 million). Completion is expected within 180 days of signing, subject to standard closing conditions, and will be carried out through Gefran Brasil.

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1. 1Gefran - Sensors, components for industrial process control and automation systems - Gefran spagefran.com
2. 2IoT platform - Gefran spagefran.com
3. 3Power Control Solutionsgefran.com
4. 4Panel PC, CPU, and HMI Solutions for Industrial Automationgefran.com
5. 5杰佛伦签署协议以3580万欧元收购Novusquibrescia.it