WECO Contact, founded 1921 in Germany, Hanau, is a global company and having 7 locations in the world. The company is a key partner in developing, enhancing and adapting their technologies and providing the values expected by customer. Specially in tailored solutions WECO is no 1 in the connector business.
The company’s main target is to be most reliable and best in quality, sell only products which are globally approved by UL, CAS and VDE and have main focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Their target is zero failure principle – means plug and play.
Easy Engineering: What are the main areas of activity of the company?
WECO Contact: Energy, Industry, Manufacturing & Automation, Electronics & Communication, Fire & Security, Public Infrastructure & HVAC markets.
E.E: What’s the news about new products?
WECO Contact: Floating pin technology, our key products in the market segments Mobility, Fire & Security, Ceramics and public infrastructure.
See our trifolds in these segments.
E.E: What are the ranges of products?
WECO Contact: PCB Connectors, Terminal blocks, Ceramic & Bare Mantle Terminals, Tab connectors, Customized Tailored Solutions.
E.E: At what stage is the market where you are currently active?
WECO Contact: All areas, where we are active in, is a growing market cause customers concentrate more on reliable products with long life time to get a good market image by high quality and no failures during warranty time.
A lot of existing customers go more into optimization of existing products to reduce manual work in their products and faster assembly time.
E.E: What can you tell us about market trends?
WECO Contact: The trend of cheap but high volume is dropping and the focus is on high quality and – caused by the global targets of the politicians – take care of sustainability and resource conservation and avoid a lot of trash – means environmental production and products is a huge request.
Also, we see that reducing internal assembly time, no failires during assembly and internal quality check plus no claims during warranty time is important.
E.E: What are the most innovative products marketed?
WECO Contact: SMD products and specially WECO´s floating pin technology, lead free brass products and screwless products.
E.E: What estimations do you have for the rest of 2023?
WECO Contact: We see the market is stable and there is a small growth which will increase in 2024. Our customers are looking positive into the next year.
