BIBUS AG Group: 75 years of innovation and excellence

Before becoming a major player in industrial innovation, the BIBUS AG Group was a small family business. Thanks to its ambition and values, cutting-edge technologies have become accessible to local and international companies.

Chaponnay (69)
13/02/2025
7 min
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Before becoming a major player in the field of industrial innovation, BIBUS AG was a small family business. Thanks to its ambition and values, cutting-edge technologies have become accessible to both local and international companies.

Since its inception, the Group has built trust and brought together manufacturers and businesses by promoting a benevolent vision to democratize innovation.

How have its vision and missions made BIBUS AG a preferred partner for manufacturers and industrials?

I / The Keys to BIBUS AG’s Success

BIBUS AG is a family-owned company founded by Hans Bibus in Switzerland in 1947 and became BIBUS Holding AG in 1974. In 1990, the first subsidiary outside of Switzerland was created, and since then, the Group has expanded into 29 countries in Europe and Asia with 51 subsidiaries. The company currently employs over 1,200 people.

It distributes innovative and high-performance technological solutions in the fields of Environmental Technology, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Mechatronics, Automation, Robotics, and System Components.

The Group's autonomous local subsidiaries, including BIBUS France, contribute to the development of innovations by being key contacts in various sectors: automotive, healthcare, shipbuilding, aerospace, railways, and environmental.

They develop and assemble high-quality custom components both nationally and internationally by having them manufactured by leading technology constructors.

Since its inception, BIBUS AG has developed partnerships of excellence and customer service expertise to help industrialists:

  • Improve the quality of finished products: All our solutions meet the most stringent standards and often exceed expectations. Our reliable and high-performance solutions optimize production quality.
  • Enhance and secure operators' working conditions by offering solutions to reduce the strain of heavy load movements and repetitive tasks, particularly with Omron collaborative robots that can handle tasks such as carrying packages or performing machining tasks.
  • Help companies avoid outsourcing by ensuring local production remains sustainable through cost reductions, maintenance optimization, and energy consumption reduction.

II / Missions in Line with an Ambitious Vision

BIBUS AG aims to develop partnerships with high-performance solution manufacturers and democratize their access, enabling local companies to integrate them into their core production processes.

This vision aligns with current societal issues, and BIBUS AG has been committed from the beginning to progress benefiting both businesses, humans, and the environment.

To succeed in its project, BIBUS AG combines partnerships of excellence and its know-how, which can be defined by its key missions:

  • An extensive network: BIBUS AG is expanding and growing its network, allowing it to work with local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and be closer to their needs. Long-term partnerships are forged to maintain a solid offering.
  • Collaborating with excellence: One of BIBUS AG's key expertise is developing partnerships with manufacturers who excel in their fields, such as Bansbach, which develops gas or electric springs, ACE Controls, which offers deceleration solutions to enhance productivity, and ez-Wheel with its electric wheels.
  • Expert advice within subsidiaries: Technical and commercial experts analyze customer needs. BIBUS AG's experts study each step of the production chain to optimize the entire organization and ensure that the tools are adapted to the industrial process and efficient within the overall production structure.
  • A trusted partner capable of meeting challenges: BIBUS AG's clients face multiple challenges: meeting short production deadlines, improving operator and production safety, reducing musculoskeletal disorders, optimizing production lines to enhance profitability and competitiveness, reducing production waste, complying with new regulations, and addressing labor shortages.

Successfully tackling these projects requires comprehensive support, where service is just as important as the quality of solutions. That's why BIBUS AG establishes real partnerships with its clients, supporting them with high-performance solutions tailored to their needs from trusted partners, offering competitive prices, and ensuring timely delivery.

Each expert subsidiary is dedicated to supporting and helping local businesses overcome their challenges by providing reliable, attentive expert teams.

III / Sustainable Success with High-Performance and Responsible Solutions

BIBUS AG has been around for more than 75 years, but it is more in tune with its time than ever. As technologies evolve, BIBUS AG also evolves, offering high-performance technologies tailored to industrial needs, giving its clients the opportunity to become more competitive.

In response to the challenges related to environmental preservation and natural resource conservation, BIBUS AG has enriched its founding missions with a more responsible business policy.

A business policy and technologies serving the environment

Gradually, BIBUS AG and BIBUS France offer solutions derived from environmental technologies. The website envirotech.fr allows users to explore numerous solutions and their applications.

BIBUS France’s catalog includes solutions derived from cutting-edge technologies designed with ultra-durable materials that meet stringent standards.

To reduce environmental impact, BIBUS France favors products whose volume and weight have been reduced, designed with recyclable materials, easy to maintain, ultra-durable, and with a very long service life.

Some products, such as Phoenix diaphragm pumps, are easy to maintain without special tools and are made from high-performance materials that resist abrasive or aggressive fluids.

Other solutions, such as Secoh air compressors, are easily repairable and recyclable, coming with a universal maintenance kit, which grants them a very long service life of up to 10 years.

BIBUS France has also introduced a maintenance package to extend the life cycle of ez-Wheel electric wheels and fight against obsolescence. This includes replacing the battery, wheel bandages, and charge flanges to ease maintenance, repair, and parts replacement instead of disposal.

It is hard to pinpoint a single reason for the success of BIBUS AG.

Could it be their strength in bridging manufacturers and local businesses?

Their ability to bring all areas of expertise together to serve their clients?

Their capacity to provide solutions to industrial and societal issues?

Their success is likely the result of all of this combined.

Does your company based in France need support to modernize?

Contact the experts at BIBUS France and experience BIBUS firsthand!