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Just two years later, the five story, 15,000 square meter "Innovation Center Electronics" opened, housing the company's Development, Marketing, and Sales departments. ġ996: High-tech electronics manufactured in-house: a key site was founded in Bad Pyrmont in the form of Phoenix Contact Electronics.Ģ001: The plant in Bad Pyrmont was expanded to around 10,000 square meters.Ģ005/2007: A plant covering 12,000 square meters was opened on Thaler Landstraße in 2005. The company opened a subsidiary in China. Phoenix Contact special terminal blocks, Interface, and TRABTECH represented further innovations from the 1980s.ġ987: The Phoenix Contact INTERBUS fieldbus system had a strong impact on automation by offering cross-system openness from the sensor to the controller.ġ994: The independent Phoenix Testlab testing institute in Blomberg began its work as Phoenix EMV-Test. As of 2018, Phoenix Contact is represented in over 50 countries.ġ982: Phönix Klemmen become Phoenix Contact, to reflect how electronic functions are becoming increasingly integrated in terminal technology.ġ983: The company developed its sensitive device and systems electronics to be protected against surge voltages. Sweden and the USA followed in the mid-1980s. The subsidiary in Switzerland marked the first in 1981. Over 300 employees now work at the company's headquarters in Blomberg.ġ981: In the early 1980s, Phönix Klemmen started establishing subsidiaries in foreign markets. His brothers Jörg and Gerd join the company in the following year.ġ966: The Essen location closed. Phönix Klemmen welcomed its first apprentice, Helmut Conrad.ġ961: Klaus Eisert, son of Josef Eisert, joined the company as a managing partner. Through a merger, sister company Phoenix Feinbau was created in Lüdenscheid – this marked the birth of the future Phoenix Contact Group.ġ957: The first two production facilities opened at the Flachsmarkt site in Blomberg. Eisert revised the entire product range.ġ953: Following the death of Hugo Knümann, Josef Eisert and Ursula Lampmann took over the management of Phönix Klemmen.
It is not until 1948 that part of the 30-strong company moved back to Essen.ġ949: Hugo Knümann enlisted Josef Eisert, who owned numerous terminal block patents, as technical director for his company. The company headquarters moved to the "Bürgerheim" restaurant in Blomberg. For almost six decades, she continued to play an active role in the company.ġ943: On March 13, the company offices near the Essen train station were destroyed in an air raid. Soon after, the young company became Phönix Elektrizitätsgesellschaft (Phoenix Electricity Company).ġ928: Working together with Rhine-Westphalia Electricity Works (RWE), Hugo Knümann developed the first modular terminal block.ġ937: Ursula Lampmann, later to become one of the partners, joined the company as the first commercial member of staff. Two floors of a rented building in Essen served as the company headquarters: offices were on the first floor the second story was used for assembly. 1923: In Essen, Germany, Hugo Knümann founded a commercial agency for electrical products and sells contact wire terminals for electric trams.