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Phoenix Contact: celebrating 100th anniversary
A CENTURY OF PASSION FOR TECHNOLOGY AND innovation: In 100 years, the family-owned company Phoenix Contact developed from a commercial agency for industrial products into a global manufacturing company.
"Together, we have achieved a great deal over these years, remaining true to the values and culture of our family business despite growth and further development. This anniversary is a special moment for us. We have built the foundation on which we can now continue on our path into the future. Together with our customers and business partners, we will drive forward solutions for the energy revolution that are the basis for a sustainable world," says Frank Stührenberg, CEO Phoenix Contact, describing the significance of the 100th anniversary.
Connections of people and technologies
Good connections are not only elementary in Phoenix Contact's products they have also given rise to a globally active industrial company from the idea of businessman Hugo Knümann. With the founding of Phönix Elektro- und Industrie-Bedarfsgesellschaft in Essen in 1923, the company initially started out as a pure sales company. In 1928, the business connection with RWE led to the invention of the first terminal block on a DIN rail. In 1949, Knümann met Josef Eisert, a development engineer at Siemens, who took over the company in 1953 after Knümann's death.
From Blomberg to the world
A pure sales company becomes a company with its own production. At the location in Blomberg, to which the company had to be relocated during the war, tool shop, plastics production, screwdriver shop, assembly, locksmith's shop, warehouse and shipping department were soon established. With the innovative fieldbus system Interbus, the basis for industrial networking follows in 1987. After the foundation of the first foreign subsidiary in the USA in 1981, more than 50 subsidiaries follow all over the world.
Together for the future
Today, Phoenix Contact employs around 22,000 people and has generated sales of 3.6 billion euros in 2022. Worldwide, production is carried out in a manufacturing network in 11 countries with varying degrees of vertical integration. Together with customers and partners, Phoenix Contact develops solutions for the world of tomorrow with trend-setting connection and automation technology.
The holistic concepts including engineering and services are used, for example, in transportation infrastructure, e-mobility, clean water, regenerative energies and intelligent supply networks or in energy-efficient machine building and systems manufacturing.
Social responsibility
Phoenix Contact is committed to paving the way for the "All Electric Society," a future in which energy from renewable resources is available everywhere in sufficient quantities in an economical and sustainable manner. Furthermore, reducing overall energy demand through efficiency measures and creating intelligent and networked systems through sector coupling is key to this sustainable future.
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Phone: +49 52 35 300 www.phoenixcontact.com
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