About Erbe

Erbe combines more than 175 years of experience with a commitment to continuously advancing medical technology.

As an internationally operating family-owned company, we develop technologies that make medical procedures more precise and more efficient around the world. Innovation, quality, and close collaboration with healthcare professionals has always been at the heart of everything we do. Together with our approximately 2,200 employees worldwide, we are helping shape the future of medical technology in a responsible and sustainable way.

Current management

In May 2020 – for the first time in the company's history – non-family members have taken up executive responsibilities, now teaming up with Christian O. Erbe in running the enterprise.

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Our mission

Our mission is rooted in responsibility, quality, and commitment: we support physicians with reliable medical technology to ensure safe and effective patient care. By maintaining high quality standards and close collaboration with users, we build trust and drive meaningful innovation. Guided by responsibility towards people, society, and the environment, we are equally committed to our employees as the foundation of sustainable success.

Our vision

Our vision is to be recognized worldwide as a trusted partner to physicians and specialized medical personnel, valued for our expertise and forward-looking approach. We are driven by the continuous development of medical technologies that support clinical procedures and contribute to improved patient care. Through ongoing innovation, comprehensive services, and training, we aim to advance medical practice and ensure access to reliable technological solutions for treatment.

Our values

Our values are defined by progressiveness, reliability, and openness: we actively drive innovation in close collaboration with our users, while ensuring the consistent performance and dependability of our technologies. Through comprehensive support and training, we stand by our partners at every stage. An open, user-focused mindset enables us to develop solutions that meet real clinical needs and foster trust-based collaboration—with the shared goal of benefiting patients.

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History

History

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH was founded in 1851 in Tuebingen, Germany. In the 5th generation, the family-owned company develops, produces and sells systems for electrosurgery, vessel sealing, argon plasma coagulation, cryosurgery and hydrosurgery. Erbe is considered a pioneer in electrosurgery, a technology that utilizes high-frequency currents in order to cut through, coagulate or devitalize tissue, or to seal blood vessels.

Sustainability

Sustainability

We take responsibility where we can have a direct impact – in the four areas of people, planet, principles, and products. This allows us to set specific priorities and further develop existing processes. After all, sustainability is an ongoing process. Our goal is to ensure patient well-being while reducing our environmental footprint. Sustainability for us is an integral part of product development, operations, and strategy.

Quality management

Quality management

We provide our users with surgical systems they can rely on by continuously developing our methods and processes and applying rigorous testing throughout the product lifecycle. Our commitment to quality extends from development and purchasing to production, logistics and service, ensuring consistently high standards and reliable performance. Through comprehensive service, we maintain this level of quality throughout the product’s service life, contributing to safety and reliability in surgical procedures.

Facts & figures

> 2200

Employees worldwide

110

Countries

> 175

Years of innovation

25

International subsidiaries

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Approbations

  • Admissions according to the EG-Directive 93/42/EWG. International admissions for our products, distributed in the various countries, e.g. in USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia.