Ahead of the UK subsidiary’s tenth anniversary, David Phillips, Managing Director of connector specialist binder UK, shares a little of the parent company’s 50-year history.
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Without question, the circular connector is the most reliable method of connecting sensors, actuators and communications protocols like industrial Ethernet in today’s automated production facilities. Last year saw the 50th anniversary of founder Franz Binder’s decision to begin designing and making circular connectors just eight years after he established the company.
The binder of today is a successful, independent, family-run business with a truly international reach and an industry-leading industrial connector offering. Later this year will see the 10th anniversary of the establishment of binder UK as part of the company’s programme to open subsidiary companies in key countries.
Franz Binder, a qualified mechanical engineer and toolmaker, established a small contract manufacturing business specialising in turned parts and components mainly for a single, local customer.
A chance meeting with Tuchel (later Amphenol Tuchel) gave him the opportunity to manufacture connector piece parts for some of their products. From the production of components for Tuchel to the design and manufacture of its own connectors took just a few years and, in 1968, binder launched Series 681 (1968 – 1), and the rest, as they say, is history.
Circular connectors go back nearly 90 years
The origin of circular connectors goes back to the early 1930s when Cannon (now ITT Interconnect Solutions) was commissioned by the Douglas Aircraft Company to develop connectors for the DC-1, DC-2 and the DC-3 aeroplanes. Cannon’s solution was a multi-contact circular connector with a smaller footprint than the rectangular connectors available at the time. In 1936, designers at Tuchel evolved the so-called Mikrophonstecker, a circular connector first used at the Berlin Olympics and still used in its original form such as the microphone type 545 from Shure.
Today, the binder product range includes around 10,000 items, and its circular connectors can now be found in applications across many industrial sectors although automation is the company’s biggest market. The increasing use of electronics technology throughout the factory floor is proof that Franz Binder made the right decision to concentrate on the professional end of the connector spectrum.
Now retired, Franz Binder handed control of the company to his son back in 2014, although Markus Binder had been active in the company for more than 20 years. It has been Markus Binder who has worked to expand the company’s horizon beyond the home market which was supported by a modest distribution network in key countries.
binder now has subsidiary companies in the United States, China, The United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Holland, South East Asia and Austria. binder also partners with 45 distributors across five continents.
Practically all binder products are made in Germany. One exception is cable assemblies where some 30 per cent are made in Hungary. binder also manufactures some products in the USA specifically for the American market and in China for the Asian market.
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binder UK was established in 2009 at its present facility at Hemel Hempstead.
Like binder’s other subsidiaries, the UK operation is focused on markets which require high performance, high-quality interconnection solutions. As well as automation and sensors, these include food and beverage, medical electronics, agricultural and construction machinery as well as transportation including railways.
In addition to a direct sales team, binder’s extensive circular connector product range is available through a number of broadline and specialist distributors.
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