Happy birthday Komax

On 9 January 1975, 26-year-old Max Koch, a qualified electrical engineer from the ETH Zurich, founded the Komax engineering office. It all started with a three-man operation in a garage in Lucerne, Switzerland, where electrical devices for cars were manufactured. These included the Komax Speed Control, the first fully electric speed control device, which warned the driver when the stored speed value of 60, 100 or 130 km/h was exceeded.

In the manufacture of these speed warning devices, numerous wires had to be processed laboriously and manually, but there was a lack of precise machines that could carry out the processing automatically. Komax therefore began developing a wire cutting machine with a stepper motor - the Komax 20. The machine marked Komax's entry into automated wire processing and at the same time the starting point of an exciting journey that resulted in numerous innovations as well as market and technology leadership.

In the anniversary year 2025, we will share the Komax Group's journey with you and continuously provide you with insights into our world of innovative, automated and digitalized wire processing. However, it's not just about top-class machines and solutions. Our experts and specialists have done research, spoken to the people who have shaped Komax over the years and dug deep into our archives. To mark today's birthday of the Komax Group, we would like to give you a little foretaste and promise to surprise you soon with anecdotes and stories steeped in history.