Belden (company)

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Belden, Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
ISIN US0774541066
founding 1902
Seat St. Louis , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management John Stroup ( CEO )
Number of employees 8,400
sales 2,358,000,000 USD
Branch Automation technology and electronics
Website www.belden.com

The Belden, Inc. , headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri , a is a listed company that provides solutions for data transmission develops, manufactures and markets.

These solutions, which include cables as well as connectors and active components, are particularly aimed at market segments in which special and high-availability products are required. Applications range from industrial automation to data centers and broadcast studios to aerospace. In 2017, the company, which employs 8,400 people worldwide and has production sites in North America, Europe and Asia, achieved sales of US $ 2.36 billion (around EUR 2.21 billion).

In Europe, Belden is represented by the subsidiaries Belden Europe, Hirschmann Automation and Control , and Lumberg Automation , which together have formed the Belden EMEA division since March 2008 .

history

In 1902 the Belden company was founded in Chicago ( Illinois , USA ) by Joseph Belden. The first breakthrough came in 1905 when an insulation called Beldenamel was released. From 1910 the company moved into new business premises in Chicago.

In 1927, Belden was able to expand further and opened a plant in Richmond that exclusively produced electrical wire . Expansion also continued during the Second World War and with a company site of over 65,000 square meters it was the largest in 70 years of company history. Until 1942, Belden produced war products that were used in tanks, submarines, airplanes and many other products.

From 1980 Belden worked closely with Crouse-Hinds from New York , and in 1981 Cooper Industries from Texas joined the cooperation. 1993 the company headquarters was moved to St. Louis ; Belden was a separate, independent body. The German company HEW-Kabel, founded in 1964, became a member of the Corporation in 1998 .

In 2004 Belden and Cable Design Technologies merged to form the new company Belden CDT Inc. In 2007, Belden took over the German companies Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH and Lumberg Automation Components GmbH and was renamed Belden Inc. In 2008 Belden bought the American company Trapeze Networks, a manufacturer of WLAN systems and software, which was sold to the network equipment supplier Juniper Networks in November 2010 . In 2008, Belden Inc. merged the European subsidiaries to form Belden EMEA . In mid-2009, HEW-Kabel, headquartered in Wipperfürth, was sold as part of a management buy-out . In 2009 the strategic reinforcement of the broadcast division began with the acquisition of Telecast, the world's leading manufacturer of AV transmission systems over fiber optic cables .

In 2010, Belden took over the coaxial connector area from Thomas & Betts and the American company Garrett Com, manufacturer of industrial network technology, as a supplement to the German company Hirschmann, which had already been acquired. In 2011, Belden acquired the Brazilian cable manufacturer Poliron to expand its industrial cable portfolio in South America. In 2012 Belden took over the connector and tool divisions of the American manufacturers PPC and ICM, which will be combined in 2013 in Syracuse, USA, as a joint coax and connector competence center.

From 2012 onwards there was another wave of expansion in the broadcast area totaling one billion dollars, initially with the takeover of Miranda Technologies, market leader in broadcast video servers, interfaces, and much more. On April 1, 2014, the acquisition of the Franco-Canadian Grass Valley Group was completed; after leading studio equipment manufacturers such as Philips BTS and Canopus had already merged into this . In October 2019, Belden announced it was leaving the media technology sector and parting with the Grass Valley Group after its sales fell roughly in half to $ 350 million.

Products

Belden is a leading supplier of more than 3,000 different wire and cable products. This includes copper and fiber optic cables , plug connections , cable installation systems and products in the field of Industrial Ethernet , Power over Ethernet and Wireless LAN . Housings and control cabinets are also manufactured.

Locations

Belden has offices in more than 30 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Products are designed and manufactured at manufacturing locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy and Hungary.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Belden Inc: About | Our history. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b 2016 Format 10-K Report. Belden, Inc., accessed April 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ PPC Broadband: PPC Broadband | solutions for coaxial and fiber networks. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Belden Announces Intent to Divest Grass Valley, Exit Media Technology Sector. In: devoncroft.com. October 30, 2019, Retrieved December 6, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Products. In: www.beldenkabel.de. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .