German Cable Industrie
Cables form the partly invisible energy and communications supply network of our modern life. Noticeably, these infrastructure forming products are rarely spotlighted in the public eye. They are, however, highly essential for today’s technology-oriented society.
With its broad range of products, the German cable industry provides sustainable solutions for all technological questions.
Essential future subjects such as smart grid, renewable energies and electromobility represent a great challenge for the industry but also reveal an enormous potential for innovations and economic development.
In order to develop system solutions the cooperation of the entire cable industry across product segments is required. The German Cable Makers’ Association provides the necessary platform for this purpose.
Already since 1901, cable manufacturers of the German cable industry have been unionised in organisational structures. Since 1947, the German Cable Makers’ Association is a division of the ZVEI.
Within the division, 33 companies of the German cable industry are organised. With its approx. 18,000 employees the industry produces around 8,000 types of cables for the transmission of power and communications, and a wide range of products in the field of winding wires and accessories, as well.
At EU level, the division closely cooperates with “Europacable”. For many years, a strong cooperation also exists with the “KTG-Kabeltrommelgesellschaft GmbH” (service company for production and rental of cable reels), a communal organisation of the cable industry.