CONNECTIVITY+ – HARTING collaborates with MIT

Feb. 25, 2021

HARTING collaborates with MIT to help identify innovative CONNECTIVITY+ opportunities and thus expands a longstanding cooperation.

Espelkamp-based (Germany) connectivity leader HARTING has announced, that it has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) to become a member of one of the world's leading innovation ecosystems.

"Participation in the MIT Industrial Liaison Program will support us in our endeavors to offer our partners worldwide, and especially in the USA, measurable added value," stresses Dr.-Ing. Kurt D. Bettenhausen, Board Member for New Technologies and Development.

“We are delighted to welcome the German technology company HARTING, a global market and technology leader for industrial connection technology, to push forward innovative opportunities,” says Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, Corporate Relations Industrial Liaison Program of MIT.

About HARTING
The HARTING Technology Group is one of the world's leading providers of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and Power and has 14 production plants and 44 sales companies. Moreover, the company also produces retail checkout systems, electromagnetic actuators for automotive and industrial series use, charging equipment for electric vehicles, as well as hardware and software for customers and applications in automation technology, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation engineering. In the 2019/20 business year, some 5,500 employees generated sales of EUR 759 million. 

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