{"id":6768,"date":"2021-06-21T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/news\/start-without-contact-but-with-electronics\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:41:22","slug":"start-without-contact-but-with-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/en\/start-without-contact-but-with-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Start without Contact, but with Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25 years of Phoenix Contact at the Bad Pyrmont site &#8211; basically, it all started with a trip to the Netherlands in the 1980s. One of the managing directors at that time brought back from a trade fair the realization that Phoenix Contact absolutely needed a foothold in the young discipline of electronic automation. With the Interbus fieldbus system, a corresponding product series was started.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-03.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-03-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-03-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Phoenix Contact Electronics in Bad Pyrmont<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>25 years ago, Bad Pyrmont was simply a place in the surrounding area for most employees at Phoenix Contact. There, in neighboring Lower Saxony, a subsidiary called Phoenix Electronics was founded on June 21, 1996. The missing &#8220;Contact&#8221; was not added until 2004. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hans-J\u00fcrgen Koch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>For the first time, a new production was not realized at the Blomberg site: &#8220;The requirements for the production were so new and special that we wanted to realize this central project detached from the &#8216;everyday&#8217; Blomberg operation,&#8221; describes Hans-J\u00fcrgen Koch, member of the management of Phoenix Contact Electronics. <\/p>\n\n<p>Construction of the building began in the winter of 1994\/95. &#8220;The location was close. Moreover, we were welcomed with open arms by both the city and the country.&#8221; 25 years ago, the building was completed and production began. &#8220;Bad Pyrmont was planned as a pure manufacturing site. Development, sales, marketing, these functions were to remain in Blomberg.&#8221; In the meantime, this has become a site with around 1,800 employees.<\/p>\n\n<p>And Bad Pyrmont has long since acquired a very special sound for the Blomberg colleagues as well.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-02.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/media\/2021\/06\/25-Jahre-PxC-BP-02-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The smartest of all Phoenix Contact buildings: G4 in Bad Pyrmont<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years of Phoenix Contact at the Bad Pyrmont site &#8211; basically, it all started with a trip to the Netherlands in the 1980s. 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