WILA lighting technology

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WILA Lichttechnik GmbH

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founding 1857
Seat Iserlohn , NW , Germany
management Managing Director Jan Paul Harteman
Number of employees 94
Branch lighting
Website www.wila.com

WILA in Iserlohn

The WILA Lighting Technology GmbH , based in Iserlohn develops, designs, manufactures and distributes lighting tools for lighting applications both indoors and outdoors. The focus is on office lighting as well as lighting for administrative buildings and educational institutions.

Company information

WILA Lichttechnik GmbH is based in Iserlohn and has an international focus with sales partners in 25 countries. The focus is on the European market.

The company is led by the managing director Jan Paul Harteman.

history

From 1857 to the First World War

The company was founded by Wilhelm von Hagen in Iserlohn in 1857. The family business initially produced sheet brass rosettes. After von Hagen's death in 1863 the widow named the company Wwe. Wilh. von Hagen and expanded production in the 1870s to include cast brass parts and furniture fittings, which drove the upswing. An entry in the commercial register was made on June 18, 1886.

In 1887 she passed the company on to her children. In 1909, August von Hagen (born February 11, 1890 in Iserlohn, † March 18, 1954 in Iserlohn) and Hugo von Hagen were the third generation to join the plant - at that time the second company already existed in Meschede . In the field of bed fittings, Wwe. Wilh. von Hagen the domestic market until the First World War . About 80 percent of the products were exported abroad.

From the Great Depression to World War II

After the First World War, the company was soon able to enter the export market again. And even from the global economic crisis , the company was initially spared due to the high export share. By 1928 the company employed 300 people and achieved a turnover of 2.5 million marks. Then the world economic crisis overtook Wwe. Wilh. Hagen still: In the early 1930s years seemed bankruptcy inevitable - in this period almost one third joined the German industrial companies.

The company looked for niches in the market and took a risk: In 1932 it established a new department for lighting fixtures. In the same year they were presented to the specialist public for the first time at the Leipzig Autumn Fair . By 1938, the company had grown to become the fourth largest producer in the German lighting industry. During the Second World War , the company was required to start manufacturing armaments.

From the post-war years until today

When August von Hagen died (1954), the number of employees was 600. After the war, Ulrich and Günter von Hagen joined the company in the fourth generation . The situation gradually returned to normal and the lamp business started up again. In 1977 the company was renamed WILA Leuchten Wwe. Wilh. Renamed by Hagen. When the company was on the brink of collapse in 1983, Helmuth K. Unger took over the company a year later. He founded the company Hartmann & Unger lighting manufacturer in 1978. Unger renamed the company WILA Leuchten GmbH. Within the Unger Holding, WILA Leuchten GmbH and the acquired company Bruck operated as an independent company. The WILA Leuchten GmbH in 2004 ended in bankruptcy . In 2005 WILA Lichttechnik GmbH bought the WILA brand and realigned itself in 2013.

WILA Lichttechnik GmbH has been part of NordeonGroup BV., Utrecht, Netherlands, since February 2016.

Products

In the 1980s, WILA focused its production on technical luminaires and compact downlights. In 1997 the company brought a light management system onto the market with which flexible lighting solutions can be implemented. In 1999 WILA expanded its product range to include linear lighting systems. In 2007 WILA began developing the first general lighting systems based on LEDs . Today the company offers luminaires and lighting components and, together with lighting planners and architects, develops intelligent lighting solutions for numerous areas of application. The award-winning product family alphabet was created in 2013. With this modular LED product family, the company provides a large selection of lighting tools with which planners can realize their individual ideas about a lighting solution. Another product is the Transparency pendant light. When switched off, only the filigree frame with a visible height of 15 mm is visible. The previously transparent surface is switched on to become the light object in the room. Transparency has received several awards for this design concept.

Projects

In 2006, the company adopted the new lighting design in the central community hall in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . Other projects included the Toyota headquarters, the BBC New Media Village in Great Britain, the Sony European headquarters in Berlin , the lighting technology for four ships in the AIDA fleet , Hamburg Airport and Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport . Other exemplary projects of the company are the Gasteig in Munich, the Baader Bank in Unterschleißheim, the district building in Siegburg, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and the DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin.

literature

  • Hermann Holtmeier: From candlesticks to energy-saving lamps. History of the company WILA Leuchten. In: Iserlohner Museen e. V. (ed.). Contributions to the local history of the city of Iserlohn and the Brandenburg area, Vol. 9, Iserlohn 1988/1989, pp. 35–53.
  • Karlheinz Graudenz: A little journey into the past. Wwe. Wilh. von Hagen 1857–1957.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joint register portal of the federal states: Commercial Register of the Iserlohn District Court, HRB 5784. Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Chambers of Industry and Commerce Arnsberg, Hagen and Siegen: Company data on the Internet, headquarters and country representatives. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Unternehmensregister.de: Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 6, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unternehmensregister.de
  4. ↑ a b WILA: Views ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 14, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wila.com
  5. ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung , article: In the footsteps of important Iserlohn women (July 10, 2007)
  6. ↑ a b c Striking heads from the Märkisches Kreis (page 43), Hans-Herbert Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn, 1997, ISBN 3-922885-89-6
  7. ^ Order of the Hagen District Court of October 1, 2004, 100 IN 170/04
  8. ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper of November 22, 2006, February 17, 2006 and August 10, 2006
  9. ↑ arguide
  10. ↑ Project of the month February 2012: Dublin Terminal 2 - Clear structures .
  11. ↑ WILA: Overview of projects . Retrieved November 6, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E