History

• On 6 May 1896, Gottlieb Suhner opened a cable factory in Brugg with 16 employees.
• 1908 The company was converted into a joint stock corporation by the name of Kabelwerke Brugg AG.
• 1920 The first in-house high voltage laboratory was built in Brugg.
• 1934 Production of the first 150 kV oil-filled cables.
• 1947 Kabelwerke Brugg purchased around 10,000 m2 of land from the local township. On this was built the new factory and later the various machine halls of today’s Brugg Cables.
• 1954 Manufacture of the first PVC-insulated low voltage cables.
• 1955 Construction of the new wire rope factory in Birrfeld.
• 1955 Production of the first 20 kV high voltage plastic cable.
• 1956 Construction of the administration building in Brugg.
• 1958 320 employees celebrated the 50th anniversary of Kabelwerke Brugg AG.
• 1969 Construction of the largest underground cable warehouse in Europe with a capacity of over 2,800 rolls.
• 1969 Development of sealing ends for SF cables.
• 1979 Acquisition of Franz Rittmeier AG in Zug, process control engineering
• 1980 Commissioning of the dry cross-linking plant for the production of high voltage cables up to 60 kV.
• 1981 Introduction of cross-linked plastics for extra high voltage cables now up to 500 kV.
• 1996 The Brugg Group now consists of six independent divisions. The largest is Brugg Cables (Brugg Kabel AG) which currently maintains branch offices throughout the world with a workforce of approximately 600.