The MENNEKES Group is a leading manufacturer of industrial plugs and eMobility charging solutions. Since 2014, the type 2 charging plug from MENNEKES has been the standard for e-vehicles throughout Europe by EU law. Founded in 1935, the medium-sized family business from Kirchhundem in the Sauerland region of Germany has a presence in more than 90 countries through its subsidiaries and agencies and employs around 1,600 people worldwide. Christopher Mennekes is the third generation of his family to lead the company.
MENNEKES produces plugs, couplers, sockets and socket combinations in a wide variety of designs – such as the PowerTOP® Xtra plugs and sockets from 16 to 125 amps that are used worldwide and the AMAXX® socket combinations that are available in various versions. These robust, durable solutions are used wherever electricity needs to flow safely and stably – for example, in industry, in tunnels and at train stations, in mining and shipbuilding, in container ports, data centers, for fire departments and disaster control, in sports facilities and at events of all kinds.
In the field of electromobility, MENNEKES offers suitable solutions and the infrastructure for the mobility of the future: the range includes charging cables with type 2 plugs, intelligent charging stations, wallboxes as well as billing services and a trained partner network – for the home, industry, commerce and the public sector. The company manufactures charging inlets and charging cables for electric cars for the automotive industry and its suppliers.
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Company founded as an electrical trade business by Aloys Mennekes
MENNEKES becomes a manufacturer of electrical engineering and starts the production of industrial plugs and sockets
Change in production: from now on, the housings of the plugs and sockets are mainly made of fully electrically insulating plastic and rubber instead of aluminum as before.
Conversion of production to the new, internationally valid CEE round plugs and sockets and in the likewise newly adopted identification colors.
Walter and Dieter Mennekes join the management team
Start of international expansion with the foundation of subsidiaries in Great Britain and the USA
MENNEKES becomes a pioneer of electromobility and, in addition to its industrial plugs and sockets division, establishes the eMobility and Automotive divisions; Christopher Mennekes joins the management board in 2011
The MENNEKES Type 2 charging plug becomes the charging standard for electric vehicles throughout Europe by EU law
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