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| History |
| 1979 |
Foundation of the company Limitor GmbH operating purely as a trading company |
| 1989 |
Limitor starts to develop and produce own products which are temperature switches with a special
current sensitivity and electronic latching / self-holding |
| 1992 |
a first contact between Limitor Ltd. and ERNI Elektroapparate Ltd. took place with the aim to
possibly cooperate because of common field in their products. ERNI purchases 51% of the company
shares |
| 1993 |
ERNI raises its shares to 100% and transfers the company's location from Pforzheim to the company
headquarters in Schorndorf. |
| 1994 |
The company Limitor is dissolved and integrated into ERNI Elektroapparate Ltd. as a business area. |
| 2000 |
The tremendous growth of ERNI Elektroapparate Ltd. on the one hand and the differences in the
product-assortment of goods on the market between the core business of the parent company and
the business area Limitor on the other hand result in the decision to spin off the business area
Limitor of the concern. |
| 2001 |
Foundation of Limitor GmbH. |
| 2002 |
Taking up operative business activities as an independent enterprise under new direction. |
| 2003 |
Positive development in the first year requires an expansion of capacity. The Production centre in
Hungary starts operations. |
| 2004 |
Halfway through the year, the prvious two production sites have been merged to the new production
center in Hungary in the course of optimisation. |
| 2005 |
Foundation of sales branch in Italy. |
| 2008 |
Foundation of sales branch in France |
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