At the Agritechnica in Hannover AppsforAgri and LEMKEN announced a strategic collaboration. The goal? together offer smart, ‘connected’ products and services.
To LEMKEN the collaboration means that it can offer her customers, in addition to machines, smart sensors and apps. In addition, LEMKEN, together with AppsforAgri, wants to develop new, smart products that can work flawlesly with machines.
The collaboration between LEMKEN and AppsforAgri offers the opportunity to quickly shape these new developments. To CEO Anthony van der Ley, this is an important step to the future: ‘With this step we’re showing that LEMKEN, the Agrovision Company, looks ahead. We are convinced that this collaboration wil make us faster, more flexible and more effective and that we look further alongside the production of high-quality agricultural equipment.
‘we have lots of innovative ideas to develop new smart products and services together’.
The IoT (Internet-of-Things), data and artificial intelligence are now familliar ground for AppsforAgri. Through experience and different backgrounds a company has arisen that already produces a number of succesful products, such as the new ‘IoT’weather station ‘FieldMate’. ‘This partnership offers a unique opportu7nity for out company to further develop our company and our ideas’, say Michel de Vree and Corné Braber, managing board of AppsforAgri.
LEMKEN GmbH & Co KG
As a specialist in the field of professional arable farming, LEMKEN has more than 1,400 employees worldwide and a turnover of 325 million euros to the leading companies in Europe. Founded as a smithy in 1780, the family business in Germany produces high quality and productive agricultural machinery for tillage, sowing and crop protection at its headquarters in the Alps. as wel as in the Haren and Indian Nagpur plant. Innovations for the best result for the customer determine our thinking and doing.
More information about LEMKEN can be found at their homepage: www.lemken.com.