Kraus & Naimer
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| Industry | Electrical components, Machine Industry, Toolmaking |
| Predecessor | Hubert Laurenz Naimer (1922–2004) |
| Founder | Franz Kraus (1877–1962) and Lorenz Naimer (1868–1944) |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
| Products | Rotary Cam Switch, Control and Load Switch |
| Owner | Joachim (Ted) Laurenz Naimer leads the company in the third generation (since 2004) |
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Number of employees
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900 (2017) |
| Website | www.krausnaimer.com |
The specialty of Kraus & Naimer are load and disconnect switches as well as modular cam switches, where the company is world market leader. Kraus & Naimer is a supplier of switchgear for industrial customers in the fields of transport (railways, vehicles, ships, etc.,), conveyor systems, lift systems, mechanical engineering and power generation and power distribution systems.
The parent house of the Austrian family business Kraus & Naimer is located in Vienna, Austria. It is currently active with six factories in Europe (Germany, Austria, Hungary), North – and South America (USA, Brazil) and Oceania (New Zealand) and 18 worldwide company owned sales – and customer consultation subsidiaries. It holds 10 of those subsidiaries in Europe (Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Finland, Sweden, UK, Norway, Netherlands), 2 subsidiaries in North America (USA, Canada), 2 subsidiaries in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), 1 subsidiary in South America (Brazil), 1 subsidiary in Africa (South Africa) and 2 subsidiaries in Asia (Japan, Singapore). It employs globally around 1.000 employees worldwide, who produce almost 4.3 million switches of different types annually. Kraus & Naimer is specialized in the field of switchgear in the course of its history and supplies its products to leading industrial companies worldwide.
The company was founded in Vienna in 1907 in Wattgasse 53 within the 16th district Ottakring. The company's history began in the era of emerging electricity. Lorenz Naimer, founder and financier of the company as well as his partner Franz Kraus, who was responsible for the technical development and implementation, researched in the field of electrical special machines. On 28 September 1909, the company was officially renamed Kraus & Naimer. In 1912, the company relocated to Schumanngasse 35 in the 18th district Währing, which was extended in the years 1947–1961. Between 1968 and 1970 an additional production facility was built close to Vienna in Weikersdorf in Lower Austria. This was supplemented by an assembly plant from 1989 – 1990 and expanded to almost double the size in 2013. In 1947, Hubert Laurenz Naimer took over the management of the company from his father Lorenz Naimer, which he developed into a global corporation through innovations and global business drive until his death in 2004. In 1981, his son Joachim Laurenz Naimer joined the management of the company, who leads currently the family enterprise since 2004.
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