B&R mourns the loss of company founder
died on March 30, 2019, at the age of 67 B&R company founder Erwin Bernecker died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 30, 2019. The industrial electronics company B&R was founded in Eggelsberg in 1979 by Erwin [...] Friends since their school days, B&R founders Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer gradually built up an international company based around their shared idea. As a result, B&R can now look back on 40 successful [...] until the company was sold to the ABB Group. A native of the Austrian Innviertel region, he supported B&R's integration into the ABB Group's business processes as a consultant until the very end. Erwin Bernecker