About this organization

Organization Information : Founded in 1981, Phoenix Contact USA, one of the first international subsidiaries, was founded in 1981. Phoenix Contact employs more than 1,000 people in the U.S., including 800 at our U.S. headquarters near Harrisburg, Pa. Our knowledgeable and friendly sales professionals provide personalized service while helping you solve technical challenges. They are backed by a network of authorized distributors to enhance our local service level. Our Pennsylvania headquarters is also home to our manufacturing and distribution centers for the Americas. With local production and logistics, we can offer our American customers faster and more personalized service. Connecting, distributing, and controlling power and data flows - we have been developing the right products for this purpose since 1923. Whether in industrial production facilities, in the field of renewable energies, in infrastructure, or for complex device connections: our solutions are used wherever processes must run automatically. Above and beyond their pure function, they help our partners to develop sustainable applications with more efficient processes and reduced costs.

Other Information: Founded in 1981, in Essen, Germany, by Hugo Knümann, Phoenix Contact began as a distributor of electrical products and introduced the first modular terminal block in 1928. Now headquartered in Blomberg, Germany, the company has grown into a global leader in industrial automation, connection technology, and electronics. Its product portfolio includes terminal blocks, relays, connectors, power supplies, controllers, I/O systems, and surge protection devices. Phoenix Contact also offers solutions for industrial Ethernet and supports various communication protocols like Modbus and PROFINET. The U.S. subsidiary, established in 1981 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, employs over 1,000 people, contributing to the company's global presence in more than 50 countries.