Klöckner Moeller History |
| 1899 | Franz Klöckner founds a switchgear production company in Cologne, Germany. | The newly-founded company makes hand starters with a new safety function for use in DC machines. |
| 1910s | Hein Moeller joins the firm in 1911, as the chief engineer and sole director. | Hein Moeller succeeds in a pioneering technical innovation, developing the first three-phase oil contactor. |
| 1920s | Greater customer proximity is achieved by decentralizing the sales organization. Assembly-line production is introduced at the Moeller works. |
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| 1930s | Kloeckner Moeller Contactor relays are mass produced at six factories. | Production of the first switchgear devices with a service life comparable to that of the machines in which they are deployed. |
| 1940s | Moeller starts to deliver switchgear to electrical wholesalers and undergoes a change in name to Klöckner-Moeller. | Moeller begins to use Andorit (a transparent plastic) as an insulating material in power distribution board housings. |
| 1950s | The company expands to 1,500 employees and generates sales of 30 million. It sets up its first foreign sales company in Belgium. By now Moeller is represented by distribution partners in 42 countries of the world. In Austria, Prof. Dr. Ing. Biegelmeyer develops the residual-current circuit-breaker. | Product innovations:
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| 1960s | Kloeckner Moeller generates sales of 100 million with a workforce of 2,800 employees, and sets up sales subsidiaries in Switzerland and South Africa. |
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| 1970s | The company now has 5,000 employees and establishes sales companies in Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Australia and Zaire. Works are built in England, France and the USA. | |
| 1980s | For the first time Kloeckner Moeller generates sales in excess of 1 billion, with the help of 7,000 employees in 75 countries. The companies that make up the Moeller Group are united into Moeller Holding Gmbh & Co. KG, and new sales subsidiaries are set up in Spain, Austria and Denmark. | Moeller becomes one of the first suppliers of compact programmable logic controllers (PLCs), with the PS3 PLC being launched on the market to great success. |
| 1990s | The company has 7,200 employees to its name and sales of 1.5 billion. Distribution centers are set up in former East Germany, and new subsidiaries are founded in Hungary, Poland and Italy. The Kloeckner Moeller Test Laboratory in Bonn is the first German laboratory to be accredited for industrial low-voltage devices and systems, and the Kloeckner Moeller Distribution Centre is taken into operation in Meckenheim, near Bonn. | Product innovations:
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| 1998 | Kloeckner Moeller acquires Felten & Guilleaume AG, Cologne, a manufacturer of electrical installation devices, cables and medium-voltage systems, and lays the foundation stone for a fully-owned factory in Suzhou, China. The company posts sales of 1.25 billion with 7,200 employees. | Product innovations:
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| 1999 | The company celebrates on hundred years and undergoes a change in name from Klöckner-Moeller to Moeller. | |
| 2000 – 2003 | The economic downturn all over the world and growing competition on global markets starts to impede the company's development, which is further hampered by the owner's efforts to sell. Despite these difficulties, Moeller continues to invest in forward-looking production technology and the development of new product series. | Product innovations:
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| 12/09/03 | A group of investors advised by Advent International Cooperation, Boston, USA, acquires 100 percent of the Moeller Group. The capital structure of the company is improved and the management's restructuring plan is implemented. | |
| 2004 | A presentation on the company's business development is given at the annual press conference on September 27 in Bonn. Moeller has succeeded in achieving the turnaround and is again operating at a profit in its core business areas. The Group focuses on its core competencies to an unprecedented extent and continues to consolidate its presence in global growth markets, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. By the end of 2005, the Moeller Group will have virtually completely renewed its product portfolio in its core business areas | Product innovations:
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