EDAK - Engineering Aluminum

EDAK | history

Mission: To be an industry leading provider of specialized, engineered aluminum solutions

Long-term commitment - The success of EDAK rests on a proven formula of the founders. The core competency at EDAK is engineering aluminum solutions.  Through a proven global leadership in this area of expertise, our clients are always repeat customers.  With the support of our parent DKB, EDAK has been a stable provider of these solutions for over forty-five years and will continue to do so for many years to come. 
The following are our success factors:

1. Commitment to customers: We are fully committed to making quality products and offering excellent value-added services. With our expertise, reliability and efficiency, we make sure that our customers' expectations are always exceeded.  Our focus is to delight our customers.
2. Corporate learning culture: We foster an active, professional exchange of know-how among our employees by providing an open environment for our multicultural, multilingual and geographically diverse staff.
3. Material competence: Here at EDAK, we focus on developing and manufacturing with high quality light weight aluminum.  With over forty-five years experience in designing fabricated aluminum products, EDAK can make just about anything our customers can request.
4. Solution competence: Our focus is on solving our customer’s problems by adding value with our expertise in aluminum.  We have knowledgeable engineers focused on concept to design with expert metal fabricators in manufacturing.  In addition, our project management is unsurpassed in managing our customer deployments with on time delivery.
5. Leadership: With today’s requirement for mobility with efficiency through lightweight packaging, aluminum solutions play a significant factor in the increased demand for EDAK products.  But the tremendous success and popularity of EDAK is also due to a continued commitment to innovation and industry leadership.  This leadership can be witnessed through EDAK’s involvement in strategic industry organizations as well as it's commitment to open collaboration with its customers.

 

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Organization

EDAK is a globally active company with manufacturing sites in the US and Switzerland, certified to ISO 9001:2000, with a global sales network. EDAK AG in Switzerland is located in Dachsen, 40 km north of Zurich. EDAK, Inc. (US operation) is located in Melbourne, Florida near Cape Canaveral, and was founded in 1986.

EDAK, Inc. and EDAK AG are part of Diethelm Keller Brands which is owned by Diethelm Keller Group (Zurich, Switzerland).  Diethelm Keller Brands (DKB) holds a diversified portfolio of ten proprietary brand companies which were acquired by Diethelm & Co. and Edward Keller Ltd.  DKB was established as an umbrella company for the portfolio of companies which include EDAK, Inc. and EDAK AG.

History
The Diethelm Keller Group's origins date back to the 1860s when two Swiss pioneers ventured to the Far East: Wilhelm Heinrich Diethelm settled down in Singapore, while Edward Anton Keller went to the Philippines. The businesses set up by the two entrepreneurs developed over time into successful family enterprises. While the Diethelm Group was mainly active in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indochina, the business of the Edward A. Keller Group was concentrated in the Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, China and Australia. Although family and business ties between Diethelm and Keller date back to the beginning of the 20th century, the two Groups formally joined forces by forming Diethelm Keller Holding only 100 years later, in June 2000. In 1959, Keller and Diethelm founded EDAK in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.  In 1965, EDAK built its current plant and operation in nearby Dachsen. The following decades are marked by many success stories as EDAK managed its growth and opened up the US operation in 1986. Recently, EDAK, Inc. moved its operation in Melbourne to a new campus facility.  Building 1 was constructed to meet the specific needs for EDAK and is now in full operation. We are operating 24x7 to support the growing demand in North America.