sentences:  In the laboratory business the group also serves customers from healthcare and academia.The company was founded as L Hauser KG on 1 February 1953 by Swiss engineer Georg H. Endress (1924–2008) and German banker Ludwig Häusser (1895–1975).Starting capital was a modest 2,000 deutschmarks; the first ‘operating facility’ was a room in Hauser’s apartment in Lörrach, Germany.