About Komax
The Komax Group is a pioneer as well as market and technology leader in automated wire processing. It is providing its customers with innovative solutions. Learn more about our history, our values and our quality pledge.
The Komax Group is the world market leader in automated wire processing. In addition to production systems, quality assurance, test equipment and networking solutions come from a single source.
The Komax Group manufactures series machines and customized systems for all levels of automation and individualization. Quality assurance modules, test equipment, intelligent software, and networking solutions complete the portfolio, and ensure safe, flexible, and efficient production.
Changes in the labor market, environmental awareness, and the rising complexity of end products, as well as a corresponding increase in quality requirements, are global megatrends that will play a major role in steadily increasing demand for automation solutions. This is because they are leading to more and new types of cables, which require increasingly automated processing due to factors such as quality, efficiency, costs, miniaturization and traceability.
Customer proximity together with short reaction and supply times are crucial to success of the Komax Group. This is why the Komax Group combines, true to its motto “global local” – global production with a unique local distribution, engineering, and service network across all continents –, with its tailored digital offerings.
The Komax Group produces standardized products and customer-specific systems. Around 3,500 employees in some 60 companies work for the Komax Group. With its production facilities in the world's most important market regions, the Komax Group meets the expectations of its global customers, who demand a local presence of its suppliers.
Unique selling proposition: distribution and service network
The Komax Group has a unique global presence that enables it to provide efficient and competent support to its locally and globally active customers at all times. It provides sales and service support in more than 60 countries through its subsidiaries and independent agents. Customers can also submit their orders via the e-commerce platform Komax Direct.
Komax Care – a comprehensive service offering
With its services, the Komax Group is helping its customers to use and maintain the acquired machines and testing systems to their full potential and to minimize outages caused by operating or maintenance errors. The Komax Group provides customers its extensive “Komax Care” service offering. The offering includes the Komax Academy. It provides a modular training program including certification, that is alingend to the various customer needs.
CARE Service Agreements – comprehensive worry-free packages for customers
With its CARE Service Agreements, the Komax Group offers comprehensive carefree packages for customers, thereby helping them get the best out of their machinery investments when it comes to productivity, availability, and quality. As a result, in addition to the machines themselves, customers can also obtain service agreements for individual machines or entire production sites, covering calibration, maintenance, technical support, training, and digital solutions.
Profitable through differentiation and brand strength
The Komax brand stands for competence, quality, and functionality, and represents the company as a reliable and enthusiastic partner and a pioneer for a shared voyage of discovery with its stakeholder groups. The Komax Group pursues a multi-brand strategy. In addition to the Komax brand, the portfolio also includes the product brands Schleuniger, adaptronic, Cirris, DiIT, WUSTEC and (since 2024) Hosver. The Lintech brand of the newly acquired distribution organization Alcava SAS has likewise been part of the Komax Group since 2023.
Innovation
As a pioneering and visionary company, we ensure that our business activity has a long-term focus. We are always open to new ideas and regularly re-examine our approach. This includes looking beyond our immediate concerns. We are willing to take risks – on the basis of knowledge and understanding – in order to reinforce our leadership in terms of innovation.
Following new paths can lead to mistakes. We realize and tolerate this because it gives us an opportunity to become even better. We are increasing our lead by continuing to press ahead with innovations proactively, quickly, and determinedly while remaining committed to our usual high quality standards.
Customer Focus
The varying needs of our customers are at the center of our activities. We listen to them carefully and ask the right questions. Understanding their requirements enables us to keep on improving.
We strive to ensure that our solutions offer our customers added value, so that they can increase their efficiency and productivity and thus gain a competitive advantage. We are close to our customers, communicate actively, and foster friendly, long-term relationships and partnerships based on respect and esteem.
Success
We pursue ambitious targets and make an effort to achieve them every day. As a market and technology leader we make high demands of ourselves and strive to find the best solution for our customers. Our long history of success encourages us to continue the success story and create sustainable value.
This benefits our customers, employees, and investors. We want all these stakeholders to share equally in our success. We nurture competent, committed employees who enable us to retain loyal, satisfied customers.
Quality
Our day-to-day work is driven by quality and a willingness to examine what we do critically. We provide our customers with solutions that fully meet our quality requirements and supply what we have agreed. This commitment lies at the heart of our long-term, trusting customer relationships.
Our efforts to keep on getting better include always delivering the agreed quality and actively asking customers how we can improve further. It is clear to us that this creates trust, which is of inestimable value.
Responsibility
We take our responsibility towards our customers, employees, and investors seriously and act as a reliable, trustworthy partner. Our integrity and ability to keep to our agreements and meet our deadlines make us stand out from the crowd.
We keep our word and ensure that our partners and colleagues do so too. A strong sense of shared responsibility is important to us and we are careful to foster it. We take responsibility for our actions, make decisions, and carry them out. If we pass our responsibility on to others, we do so deliberately and ensure that they assume it in turn.
In 1975, newly qualified ETH graduate engineer Max Koch and two colleagues began producing speed control devices for cars and soon realized that a wire processing machine would make their work a whole lot easier.That brainwave led to a design, and then a product. Over the course of 50 years, Komax has evolved from a three-man operation in a garage in Lucerne, Switzerland, into a leading global company with 3,500 employees. Far from being a given, its trajectory has in fact been remarkable.
Our day-to-day work is driven by quality and a willingness to examine what we do critically. We provide our customers with solutions that fully meet our quality requirements. This commitment lies at the heart of our long-term, trusting customer relationships. The Komax Group complies with applicable laws, legal provisions, and other statutory requirements as well as with the relevant standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001) and is constantly improving the effectiveness of its Integrated Management System (IMS).
We expect our partners and suppliers to meet the same high quality, environmental, health and safety standards that we do.