marco Systemanalyse & Entwicklung GmbH is a company based in Dachau, which has grown over the last 40 years from small group to an internationally operating medium-sizes company whose activities focus on two main positions. marco is a global supplier of electrohydraulic control equipment for underground mining in difficult and harsh operating conditions. marco Systemanalyse & Entwicklung accounts for around half of the world market share in intrinsically safe controls on mining. Also marco is the market leader in production of dispensing systems, which currently play a crucial role in marco's development. marco's high performance dispensing systems are based on piezo technology. It enables the valves to work fast and reliably with both non-contact and contact dispensing (e.g. with a needle), with a tolerance of less than 1 % of the dispensed volume. This technology requires the highest precision and covers a wide variety of industrial manufacturing applications (medicine, electronics etc.). Marco was founded in 1982 and nowadays operates in Germany at four different locations, supported by its subsidiaries in China, Korea, Malaysia, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam and in Australia.