24. March 2025

ARQIS advised the SCIO Automation Group on all legal aspects of its merger with Elektro Eggers. As a result, the international industrial automation group SCIO Automation is expanding its service portfolio in the Process Solutions division to include essential services in the areas of PLC programming and switchgear construction. At the same time, SCIO Automation is strengthening its market position through the resulting synergies and entering further customer segments in the areas of water treatment, food and animal feed production as well as pharmaceuticals.

The SCIO Automation Group, headquartered in the Palatinate town Frankenthal, supports companies on their way to Industry 4.0 as an international end-to-end automation platform. As a system integrator, SCIO automates production and logistics processes and, as an innovator, develops value-adding and customer-specific automation products in the fields of autonomous mobile robots, software, clean room and food intralogistics as well as industrial labeling. The group combines several companies under the SCIO Automation brand as well as other individual brands at over 40 locations in eight countries worldwide.

Elektro Eggers GmbH, based in Grasberg, Lower Saxony, is an automation specialist focusing on the areas of PLC programming, process control technology, hardware design, engineering services as well as electrical assembly and installation. Within the SCIO Automation Group, Elektro Eggers will be integrated as a subsidiary of VESCON Process GmbH, which operates further locations in Cologne, Kriftel, Flensburg and Schuby.

An ARQIS team headed by Thomas Chwalek provided comprehensive legal advice to SCIO Automation on this transaction. ARQIS advised SCIO Automation for the first time on this merger.

Advisor to SCIO Automation

ARQIS (Dusseldorf): Partners: Thomas Chwalek (Lead, Transactions), Dr. Ulrich Lienhard (Real Estate), Marcus Nothhelfer (IP, Munich), Counsel: Christian Judis (Compliance, Munich), Jens Knipping (Tax), Nora Stratmann (Commercial, Munich), Martin Weingärtner (HR.Law), Managing Associates: Christos Choudeloudis (Transactions), Tim Bresemann (Real Estate), Rolf Tichy (IP, Munich), Associates: Rebecca Gester (Commercial, Munich), Dr. Bernhard Gröhe (Regulatory), Marius Mesenbrink (Japan Desk), Anna Munsch (HR.Law), Senior Legal Specialist: Qing Xia (Transactions), Legal Specialist: Tim Kottmann (HR.Law)