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And what do you get up for in the morning? We are a family-owned company founded in Hamburg in 1919 and have a passion for developing electrical installation materials, maritime lighting products and CCTV video surveillance systems that are used across the world. On the following pages, we will show you what drives us and why that is our reason to get up in the morning. When looking for a supplier today, what do you base your decision on? The quality of the product? If so, who decides which product is the best? Or to put it another way: have you seen anyone claiming to offer a low quality...

What we expect of our work Individual products are created through the best relationships. We value good relationships and love challenges. That is why if our customers need a special solution, it is our aim to collaborate with them in a partnership for the best solution. Our Development and Design department evolves ideas and solutions for a wide variety of requirements, which are then thoroughly tested in our testing laboratory. We work for meeting our customers’ demands and requirements. That is what characterises our products. ‘My experience is that the best ideas are born in more than...

Only working with the customers’ needs in mind, we can ensure the product will be really good. Our passion: together we turn ideas into products that inspire our customers and us at the same time. This is what our 260 employees across the world work towards. Whether technician, engineer, skilled craftsperson or merchant – we all work together to ensure our customers are given the best possible products in any of these product ranges: cable entries, installation material, CCTV video surveillance, reefer container sockets and lighting. Cable entries Installation material such as the SPRINT®...

1919 A designing engineer at the Blohm+Voss shipyard, Wilhelm Hoppmann and his friend Hermann Mulsow, start their own business. The company is founded in Hamburg as a specialist factory for brass maritime installation products. 1925 The managing directors expand their product range to include an innovation they have developed in-house. In addition to brass items, the company now also produces and sells the world´s first plastic cable glands of bakelite, marking a new era for the company as experts in cable management. Founded in Hamburg in 1919 as a manufacturer of ship installation...

1954 After the death of his father, Peter Hoppmann becomes the second The production site in Hamburg becomes too small. With the aim of expanding generation of the family to run the company. Later, his wife Karin also its comprehensive range of electrical equipment, WISKA moves to a 10,000 joins the management team. square metre site in Kaltenkirchen close to Hamburg with its own turning shop, 1988 WISKA expands its product portfolio to include searchlights. 1994 WISKA launches its first multiple reefer container socket. At the same time the expansion of the plastic production with...

2000 Ronald and Tanja Hoppmann, the third generation of the family, take over the management. In the same year WISKA founds the first of now five subsidiaries worldwide: WISKA UK Ltd. in Great Britain. 2008 WISKA opens its logistics centre for cable glands and junction boxes on an area of 10,000 square metres. This means that the products can be available and shipped to customers even faster. 2010 WISKA invests in the future: the new testing laboratory is inaugurated at the Kaltenkirchen site to support product development. WISKA founds the subsidiary WISKA CCTV GmbH, which will be...