100 years of PFISTERER – connecting power for the future
Germany, Winterbach, Germany: With its sights always set on solutions for the future, the company celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021.
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Germany, Winterbach, Germany: With its sights always set on solutions for the future, the company celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021.
PFISTERER is a leading independent manufacturer of cable fittings, insulators and overhead line accessories for sensitive interfaces in energy networks, with headquarters in Winterbach near Stuttgart in southern Germany. The company develops, produces, and sells internationally successful solutions for 110 V to 1,100 kV voltage levels. They are a partner to companies specialising in power supply, plant construction, and electrified rail transport around the world. PFISTERER operates production plants in Europe, North America and South America, as well as sales offices in 18 countries across Europe, Asia, South America, and the USA. The Group employs 2100 people.
Whether rapidly growing megacities, a sustainable energy transition or clean mobility, the challenges of their employees are no less today than they were in the past. Their task is to find solutions for safe and reliable energy transmission, on both small and large scales, and often unnoticed, in overhead lines and substations, or home power connections and also in trains and wind turbines.
“Karl Pfisterer founded our company in 1921 with the goal of developing a more efficient and safer electrical fitting. His dedication to providing the best solution remains with PFISTERER to this day and encompasses all areas of energy infrastructures – from generation to transmission and also distribution. As a result, we are one of the world’s leading independent manufacturers of cable accessories, insulators and overhead line solutions,” says Dr. Konstantin Kurfiss, Executive Board member of PFISTERER. The family-owned company is an inventor, pioneer and solution provider with unparalleled innovative expertise that has shaped the future of the energy industry for 100 years. Their solutions can be found in all types of energy grids, above and below ground. The company’s products are used in rail networks, high-speed trains such as the ICE and TGV and railway safety systems. “Because we are present at countless energy transmission interfaces, our innovations have a huge impact on our partners,” Dr. Kurfiss explains. “That is why we are always thinking about the future and the trends in energy transmission and distribution. We offer solutions today for the challenges of tomorrow”.
The company’s anniversary website 100years-pfisterer.com offers entertaining insights into future and past requirements for power grids around the world and PFISTERER’s solutions.
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