Why Leister

For decades, our highly qualified employees have enthusiastically been involved with our high corporate identification for first class performance. This is our key to success.

Customers and business partners rely on the integrity and professionalism of all Leister employees. Therefore, we maintain our deeply anchored values and our daily corporate culture in all Leister companies. This is a sustainable basis for successful customer relationships and partnerships.

Leister: An excellent employer

Regardless of their position within the company, all of our employees truly value our continued commitment to our traditional, yet innovative corporate culture. This allows us to reach the peak of our technological performance and produce high-quality products. Leister systematically encourages the development of skills and expertise through training and additional educational opportunities, as well as in-house shared knowledge on a national and international scale.

We are strong together. That’s why our employees work together in teams with such great motivation and community spirit. It is our constant goal to be counted among the best. Our customers, both current and future, benefit from our high-quality services and from our attractiveness as a successful global employer.

That's How We Are

Our cooperation is based on values and principles that we live by every day in all Leister Group companies.

In doing so, we trust in the professional know-how of our colleagues and maintain dialogue with each other. Worldwide.

Market leader

Since our founding in 1949, we have grown consistently and successfully to a globally successful technology company.

Under our brand name Leister, we are the global leader in the development and sale of innovative plastic welding equipment and modules for industrial process heat.

Around the world, our brand Axetris stands for market leadership in customer-specific micro optical systems and high-precision gas sensors.

International

Our export share of 98% makes us a global player. Thanks to our sales, service and integration partners in 100 countries and regional subsidiaries in India, China, Japan, the Benelux countries, Italy, Germany and the USA, we are close to our customers all over the world.

Customers and business partners from all over the world visit us in the heart of Switzerland.

People from 14 countries work at the Swiss companies of the Leister Group.

Innovative

The companies of the Leister Group are leaders in innovation and technology. We offer solutions for a broad and diverse spectrum of applications and technologies and supply our global customers from almost every industry.

More than 15% of our employees in Switzerland work in research, development and specific customer projects.

Team players

Whether group director, business directors, managers, team leaders, specialists, trainees or interns, we treat each other as we would like to be treated. We show respect and fairness, and always support one another. By linking our skills and our expertise, we’re able to reach our potential and live out our team spirit, Worldwide and regardless of origin, training or beliefs.

Entrepreneurial spirit

Entrepreneurial thinking and action at all hierarchical levels is firmly anchored in our culture. As entrepreneurs we understand personalities who assume responsibility, anticipate and have pioneering spirit, engage others and identify with our company, our products and our goals.

Committed and ready to perform

We reward good performance, initiative, commitment and the personal dedication of our employees. It’s their elite performance and motivation that ensure our global leadership position, today and in the future.

Employee development

We recognize the potential of our employees, create developmental opportunities and promote specialist, personal and management-related areas. Leister offers internal and group training, and supports individual training courses as needed.

We play an active role in providing apprenticeships for young people. In Switzerland, we have around 20 positions available for apprentices in different disciplines.

We offer interns various courses for their first, industrial experience at Leister and Axetris. We continue to support educational training that covers industry practices.

We support corporate responsibility

Our environment and the preservation of our habitats are held close to our heart. Which has led us to invest in environmentally friendly and sustainable energy concepts.

Our values, sports performance principles and enjoyment of our national sport have led us to decades of commitment to wrestling.

Through the Leister Foundation, we promote art and culture, education and science in particular. In doing so, we focus especially on technical training for young people.

Quality of Life

For decades, we have been firmly anchored in Central Switzerland, in the Canton of Obwalden. An attractive location, centrally located in the heart of Switzerland. Our environment offers us a high quality of life in the midst of a great mountain landscape with attractive leisure opportunities.

Our employees

The employees of the Leister Group work in Switzerland and in our eight regional subsidiaries, providing top technology services, high quality, innovation and sustainable growth. Our employees identify with the Leister products and the company with great enthusiasm and motivation, making them the driving force behind our global success.

Our Leister corporate culture, based on mutual appreciation, respect and trust, is the supporting foundation for successful cooperation following our motto: We are strong together.

We are strengthening our global collaborations and are working together for our goal: innovative, sustainable, high-quality high-tech products that represent customer value and quality of life around the world.

Employees in dialogue

Our committed and enthusiastic employees are our best ambassadors and a convincing reference to motivate new colleagues to take up a new position in a Leister Group company.