Phoenix Contact

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Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1923
Seat Blomberg
management
  • Frank Stührenberg (Chairman of the Management Board)
  • Roland Bent
  • Dirk Görlitzer
  • Torsten Janwlecke
  • Ulrich Leidecker
  • Frank Possel-Dölken
  • Axel Wachholz
Number of employees approx 17,400
sales 2.38 billion euros (2018)
Branch Electrical engineering , electronics and automation
Website www.phoenixcontact.com

In the foreground: the company's headquarters in Blomberg . In the background: on the left the Blomberg industrial area, on the right in the middle of the picture the old town of Blomberg.

The Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG is offering a German company which components, systems and solutions in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and automation. The headquarters are in Blomberg, Lippe . Since it was founded in 1923, the company has developed into an international company.

Company history

Hugo Knümann founded a commercial agency for electrical products in Essen in 1923 and sold contact wire clamps for electric trams. A little later the young company called itself Phönix Elektrizitätsgesellschaft. In 1928 Hugo Knümann designed the first modular terminal block together with the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke (RWE). It was used in RWE's power plants . On the night of March 13, 1943, bombs hit the company's headquarters at Hollestrasse 36 in Essen. The company relocated its headquarters to Blomberg and manufactured in the rented “Bürgerheim”. In 1957 the first two production buildings were built on the Flachsmarkt in Blomberg. Blomberg has been the company's headquarters since 1966.

Phoenix Contact Group

The Phoenix Contact Group includes 14 companies in Germany and more than 55 sales companies around the world. Production takes place in eleven countries around the world. The product range includes components and system solutions for energy supply including wind and solar, device and machine construction as well as control cabinet construction. This includes terminals, connectors, cable connection technology and installation accessories as well as electronic interfaces, power supplies, automation systems, safety solutions, surge protection systems, software programs and tools. With its products, the Phoenix Contact Group serves markets in the automotive industry, renewable energies and infrastructure.

it's OWL

Phoenix Contact is one of 28 core companies in the BMBF top cluster "Intelligent Technical Systems ( it's OWL )"

Web links

Commons : Phoenix Contact  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phoenix Contact website / data and facts. phoenixcontact.com, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Phoenix Contact website / data and facts. phoenixcontact.com, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Phoenix Contact website / Our story. phoenixcontact.com, accessed September 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ PHOENIX CONTACT | What we do. Accessed January 27, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ It's OWL (core) company. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .

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