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The Siemon Company

Siemon Company Headquarters, 2016
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1903
Founder	Carl F. Siemon
Headquarters	Watertown, CT, United States
Website	www.siemon.com

The Siemon Company, which opened in 1903, specializes in the design and manufacture of high quality, high performance low voltage infrastructure solutions and services for Data Centers, Local Area Networks (LANs) and Intelligent Buildings, with global sales, technical and logistics expertise spanning over 100 countries.

The Siemon Company offers a comprehensive suite of copper and optical fiber cabling systems, cabinets, racks, cable management, data center power and cooling systems and Intelligent Infrastructure Management solutions.

In 1903, chemist Carl F. Siemon, together with partner Waldo C. Bryant, founded the Siemon Hard Rubber Company in Bridgeport, CT. The Siemon Hard Rubber Company first manufactured imitation stag-horn knife handles out of a durable plastic material that offered superior resistance to extreme temperatures and boiling water.

In 1906 they entered the new telecommunications industry with the 3-pole connecting block - a product that offered superior performance to the standard ceramic connecting block of the day. AT&T's three-pole connecting blocks were ceramic and thus easy to break. Carl Siemon manufactured a durable plastic version identical to the AT&T block and became a supplier for AT&T and the later Baby Bells.

The Siemon Company was also actively involved in the invention of a non-breakable plastic record to serve the needs of a booming entertainment industry. And so, in 1923 the company acquired the Bell Record Company and began manufacturing records, such as the famed Bing Crosby’s new "White Christmas" album.

With the onset of World War II, Siemon was contracted by the US Navy to produce plastic dinnerware that was used onboard ships and submarines. Virtually indestructible, these products carried a lifetime warranty and soon found their way into the general population as the Watertown Dinnerware Collection.

The war years also saw the first change in leadership for The Siemon Company. Succeeding his father who passed away a few years earlier, Carl M. Siemon became the second president of the company. In 1954, the company relocated from its original home in Bridgeport, Connecticut to its current home of Watertown, Connecticut.