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A glimpse into the world of the Friedhelm Loh Group and its customers. The company magazine “be top” is our digital home for forward-looking topics, technological innovations and user stories from panel building and switchgear manufacturing, mechanical engineering, the automotive and transport industry, and energy and IT sectors.

Be top has won numerous awards: the Communicator Awards (gold), the Spotlight Award (silver) and the Galaxy Award, to name but a few. Be top is also a multiple winner of the coveted Fox Award (silver) for print and online magazines. Since 2011, the Fox Awards have been presented in recognition of efficient marketing and communication solutions in print and digital.


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Bring on the storms and heavy seas!

Offshore wind turbines are exposed to extreme conditions on the high seas and must reliably brave the elements for 25 years and more. This is no easy feat for the technology inside – or for system suppliers such as Rittal. The company supplies...

Shaping and improving our world

All around the world, teams from the Friedhelm Loh Group are working on making our products and sites increasingly sustainable. We are also helping our customers to do the same. We reveal what our Group has already achieved and what we are planning...

Faster with standards

Moving towards an all-electric society means having to completely overhaul and massively expand our infrastructure. This is a Herculean task. One approach that can help us rapidly expand grids and energy systems is to standardise and automate value...

Taking the plunge. Is it a good idea?

ChatGPT was just the beginning. Generative artificial intelligence – GenAI – is taking over the world at breakneck speed. 2024 will be a year of roll-outs in industry. But what does that mean for data centres? Can conventional air cooling cope with the...

À la carte for data centres

Simple selection, quick service! There is now a ready-configured Eplan project for data centres that provides a new efficiency boost when it comes to planning switchgear systems. The Industry Standard Project, developed jointly by Rittal mit Siemens,...

Experiencing and implementing digitalisation

Alexander Bürkle, Rittal and Eplan have already been working in close collaboration for some years. In July, this collaboration was taken to the next level. The technology service provider, which is based in Baden-Württemberg, is now the world’s first...

600,000 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Around 600,000 distribution transformers ensure a reliable power supply to sockets across Germany. If the energy transition is to succeed, a large number of these transformers need to become smart. The components used must be available in large...

When the best solution is a standard one

When companies are planning and building new data centres, the crucial question is whether a customised design planned from scratch or a standardised solution is better. Elbe Kliniken Stade-Buxtehude GmbH chose a standardised solution for good reason –...

Keeping tunnels lit in an emergency

Speeding into a tunnel at 300 km/h in an ICE (InterCity Express) train is always an experience. Even though the train is well sealed, you can still feel the pressure wave. A tunnel’s safety technology needs to withstand huge stresses, as does the...