This week, Mr. Roger Varma, CEO of ifm efector USA, participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the company’s new US headquarters in the Atwater Corporate Center in Pennsylvania. The new facility is approximately 45,000-square-foot building.
Ifm efector, manufactures more than nine million sensor control products annually. Products include proximity switches, photoelectric sensors, vision sensors, machine condition monitors, pressure sensors, flow sensors, temperature sensors, level sensors, valve position sensors, mobile control solutions and safety at work products. Ifm has another subsidiary in Chester Country called ifm Prover, which is an R&D and manufacturing operation that opened in Malvern in 2012. The company also has a warehouse in Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
With the move in location, the company has said it plans to add 75 employees in engineering, finance, information technology and marketing over the next seven years. Ifm efector now has 230 employees in North America, more than 100 of whom will work from the new headquarters.