Komax Holding

Komax Holding AG is a Swiss company for wire processing systems and automatic assembly machines. The Komax Group specializes in automation solutions and mechatronics. Komax Holding is listed on the Swiss Exchange SIX Swiss Exchange. Company is based in the canton of Lucerne Dierikon.

History

The company was founded in 1975 by Max Koch as an engineering office Komax, in reference to his name ( Max Koch ). In 1978, he transformed the company from a single company into a stock corporation. In 1981, the company expanded with the creation of Komax USA abroad. 1982 Komax launched the world's first electronically controlled automatic crimping machines.

In the first half of the 1990s, the company expanded abroad and founded subsidiaries in Portugal ( 1991), Germany, Singapore and Brazil ( 1994). In the course of 1996 made ​​management buyouts Max Koch sold the company to the management headed by Leo Steiner. The following year, the company was taken public by IPO.

From 1998 -actuated Komax various acquisitions and took, among others, in Switzerland, the Sibos AG ( 1998), Sigma and Ismeca Automation (2005) and in the U.S. ascorbic (2000) and Prime Automation ( 2001).

Field of activity

Operationally the business into three segments ( business units ) is performed. These are active as independent brands in different applications and markets.

Komax Wire includes automated solutions for applications in the cable assembly. In the field of wire processing, the company, among other cutting and stripping machines, crimping machines and harness manufacturing machines for the automotive industry manufactures.

Komax Medtech developed for medical equipment systems for the automated assembly of manufactured in large volumes medical equipment.

Komax solar concentrating its investments on the core processes in the solar module manufacturing.