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Gebauer & Griller
A
success story made in Austria

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Founded in 1940 as a commercial agency for raw materials and semi-finished products, Gebauer & Griller quickly became a production plant which operates worldwide today. As an Austrian family business we are committed to our unchanged constant values - the spirit of innovation, competence and reliability.

History
Picture: Company History In the 1940s the former commercial agency quickly turns into a production facility for jumper and resistance wires. The latter are still produced in Linz.
Picture: Company History The 1950s are dominated by a concentration on the cable and wire production in Vienna. The systematic extension of the product range is accompanied by a constant modernization of the production facilities.
Picture: Company History In the 1960s Gebauer & Griller is already the leading supplier of thermoplastic-insulated cables and wires in Austria. The company develops and produces the country's first operative underwater telephone cable with plastic insulation.
Picture: Company History The 1970s open a new sales market for Gebauer & Griller: As a specialist for plastic-insulated wires the company becomes an important partner of the automotive industry. A second location is established and quickly expanded in Poysdorf.
Picture: Company History The 1980s bring a burst of development: development and production of telecommunication cables and lift control wires in Vienna, state-of-the-art PVC compounding installation at the Poysdorf facility, optimization of copper fine wire production in Linz.
Picture: Company History The nineties are dominated by the manufacture of cable harnesses: The subsidiaries Kabelkonfektion and Kabeltechnik (Czech Republic) are founded. The introduction of a comprehensive quality management system leads to the first cable works worldwide to be certified in accordance with VDA 6.1. The complete cable and wire production is relocated to Poysdorf.
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The new millennium is welcomed with further expansions and product innovations. Aluminum battery harnesses reach series maturity for the first time worldwide. The constant development culminates in a new company-owned development and competence center in Poysdorf, which is opened in 2008.

At the Linz location a new coating tower is built in 2009. With the specially developed flat tinned wires for photovoltaic producers Gebauer & Griller also introduces its know-how of the working of copper and surface finishing to this future-oriented industry.