As an international family business headquartered in Lüdenscheid, KOSTAL operates 64 locations in 22 countries on 5 continents in all business divisions. In 2024, 20,400 employees generated a turnover of 3.5 billion euros, of which 3.1 billion euros or 87% was generated by KOSTAL Automotive Electrics. It is the largest division of the KOSTAL Group.
KOSTAL Automotive Electrics develops innovative products together with OEMs to shape the future of the automotive industry. The success of this cooperation is reflected in KOSTAL’s position as world market leader in important and complex products such as steering column and shift-by-wire modules and door control units with a market share of >30%. KOSTAL is shaping electromobility with over 5.5 million onboard chargers in the field.
Since its foundation in 1993, KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme (KKS) has focused on the development and production of connectors, primarily for the automotive industry. With mature system expertise, a wide performance range, compact sizes and low weights, a large number of variants and low system costs, KKS products always guarantee a good connection.
KOSTAL Industrie Elektrik offers its customers innovative solutions in the three core product areas of photovoltaics, the INVEOR drive controller platform and measurement and control electronics.
KOSTAL Solar Electric GmbH is a leading supplier of inverters and storage systems. In addition to the pure conversion of solar power, the focus is on the storage and optimal use of self-generated solar energy. The product portfolio is supplemented by a wide range of monitoring solutions and a wallbox for charging electric vehicles.
Testing, automating, dosing: these are the three core product areas of SOMA GmbH. As a system supplier, SOMA has been offering its customers testing and automation systems for mechatronic and electronic products for over 40 years.
Compleo is one of the leading charging technology providers in Europe. With a wide range of charging stations of different performance levels, customers are supported in every application. With a clear focus on innovation, Compleo researches and develops bidirectional charging, calibration law solutions and high-power charging.
vaylens offers charging management software that helps companies manage and monetize their e-charging stations to ensure efficient and future-proof e-mobility.
WORLD MARKET LEADER PRODUCT/S
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Employees
Sales Volume
Founding year
Introduction to automotive electrics
First foreign plant in Mexico
Structure of the electronics
Mechatronics becomes a strategic business field
The Automotive Electrics, Contact Systems, Industrial Electrics and SOMA Test Engineering divisions will become separate companies.
Foundation of KOSTAL Solar Elektric
Entry into electromobility
KOSTAL is a leading supplier of automotive battery chargers – now in its fourth product generation and in series production in large vehicle platforms
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