Lumberg Holding

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Lumberg Holding

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1933
Seat Schalksmühle
management
  • Meike Schmidt (Managing Director),
  • Ulrich Schmidt (Managing Director)
Number of employees approx. 1,300
sales 136.6 million euros (2017)
Branch Electrical engineering
Website www.lumberg.com

Schalksmühle site

The Lumberg Holding is a family business with headquarters in Schalksmühle in Sauerland and in the electrical business. The holding company includes Lumberg Connect GmbH and subsidiaries abroad.

Competencies exist in particular in the own development , production and in the worldwide distribution of electromechanical components and mechatronic components in the field of connection technology. Since the company was founded in 1933, the range of capabilities has expanded from the manufacturer of connectors, through microcontact elements, and complex component developments to the development service provider of complex systems for industry. The focus of the connection solutions and customer-specific products are partnerships in the automotive , household appliances , building technology , communication and entertainment electronics industries .

Companies

The main part of the range consists of connector systems and customer-specific assemblies. This includes connectors for a large number of circuit board applications, circular connectors, connection terminals and cabling solutions. Lumberg is considered to be the inventor of the M8 and M12 circular connectors, which are the benchmark in automation technology today: in 1982 the first waterproof, three-pole coupling with a 7/8 inch screw connection with pre-assembled and molded cable was offered (type RK 30) . The significantly smaller M12 was derived from this for the European market. In the field of RAST connectors (since 1986) in insulation displacement technology (IDT), Lumberg is considered the world market leader based on the breadth and variety of articles offered here. In 1998 the device socket or cable connector for Siemens cell phones, called the “Lumberg connector” by the trade press, came onto the market: an interface that enabled the charging function and data connection to the PC in just one connector.

With SmartSKEDD, a connector came onto the market for the first time in 2018 that enabled reversible direct plugging at any position on the circuit board in IDT - previously, the direct plug connector was a synonym for a plug connector plugged onto the edge of a circuit board or the contacting on the circuit board was irreversible, for example by soldering . This was made possible by the patented SKEDD technology.

Lumberg has subsidiaries in:

Company history

The company was founded in 1933 by Erich and Karl Lumberg for the "trade and manufacture of radio articles". The first product was the "egg chain", a chain made of porcelain insulators for tensioning antennas on house roofs. The first connectors were created in 1934: banana plugs, relay sockets , Zenith automatic lightning protectors and tube sockets for televisions , which were sold in large numbers.

In 1970 the company expanded its production capacity with the Cloppenburg plant, and in 1988 the production facility in Schalksmühle was expanded to include a further plant, which was expanded again in 2004. Lumberg Polska was founded in 2007 with a production facility in Świebodzin. Shortly after reunification, Lumberg set up a production facility for automation connectors on the former Robotron site in Hoyerswerda . Internationally, Lumberg expanded its sales network in 1976 by founding subsidiaries in the Netherlands and France, 1977 in Great Britain, 1985 in the USA, 1994 in Singapore, and China followed in 2000.

After 2006, BenQ Mobile (created in 2005 through the acquisition of the mobile phone division of Siemens Mobile of Siemens AG and the merger with its own BenQ -Telekommunikationssparte) had gone by far the largest customer in the bankruptcy, had Lumberg tough restructuring measures taken since BenQ Mobile Lumberg was unable to service high outstanding liabilities. As a result, Lumberg Automation Components GmbH was sold retroactively to January 1, 2007 to the American company Belden .

On December 2, 2009, the Helbert family took over the entire Lumberg company, and Meike Helbert, Erich Lumberg's granddaughter, joined the management team. The family from the tribe of the other company founder sold their shares and left.

In 2016, the company re-entered the automation technology market with its sister company Lutronic Holding GmbH, also based in Schalksmühle.

literature

  • Dr. Hannes Hesse, Florian Langenscheidt, Hartmut Rauen (Eds.): The Best of German Engineering , 1st edition, Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN, Cologne / VDMA Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8163-0646-7 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Alt, Wolf D. Meyer-Scheuven, Hartmut Rauen (eds.): The Lexicon of German Mechanical Engineering in North Rhine-Westphalia , 1st edition, Production NRW c / o VDMA NRW, Düsseldorf / Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8163-0652-8 .
  • Lumberg: Lumberg - pioneering spirit, company, family, the fascinating story , Lüdenscheid 2014, self-published.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 58.6 ″  E