The management of HELUKABEL GmbH, l. right: Andreas Hoppe, Chief Financial Officer; Helmut Luksch, Founder and CEO; Marc Luksch, Managing Director - International Sales, Business Development and Marketing

HELU - Quality connections

As a hidden champion and medium-sized family-owned company, the HELU brand stands for quality, reliability and innovation. In the following, we would like to introduce the HELU Group to you in more detail.

With a business history of over 40 years, we have consistently acquired a broad spectrum of experience and in-depth knowledge in many key industries and technologies. Regardless of whether you are a sales representative, a cable designer or a business manager, you will always find the right partner at HELU.

At HELU we have made it our mission to bring power and communication reliably and consistently to our customers' destinations at all times, making impossible circumstances possible! Over Mitarbeiter employees located at 55 sites in 36 countries spare no effort to do so. We see it as our challenge to find the right cable solution for you every day, giving you time to concentrate on more important things than cables and wires.

A cable is only as good as the minds that ask the right questions before making it. We have many brilliant minds at HELU who spend every day searching for intelligent answers.Finally, to make sure there are no problems during use, all newly developed products undergo rigorous testing at our R&D center in Windsbach near Nuremberg. Here we bend, pull, shred and ignite the cable to its full value.

What makes us unique

Family Focused

  • Family-owned company since 1978 successful
  • 1.07 billion EUR turnover in 2025
  • Employees in the workforce

Global

  • Niederlassungen located in Ländern countries
  • Just-in-time delivery to more than 160 countries

Products

  • Cables, wires and accessories: a one-stop supplier for industry and infrastructure

Logistics

  • Lagerartikel products in stock
  • 24h delivery service
  • State-of-the-art logistics

Quality-focused and environmentally friendly

  • ISO 9001 & 14001 & 50001
  • More than 1250 kW total capacity of the company's own solar plant

Production

  • 6 manufacturing and assembly sites around the world

History

1978 Foundation of HELUKABEL® GmbH
1980 Nationwide Sales Force established
1984 Initiating of export activities
1988 Start of production at the Windsbach plant
1989 Foundation of subsidiaries in the new German states (East Germany)
1990 Foundation HELUKABEL® Sweden
1994 Foundation HELUKABEL® Switzerland
1997 Doubling of the production capacity at the Windsbach plant
1998 Foundation HELUKABEL® France

2000 Foundation HELUKABEL® Netherlands and Poland
2001 Opening of the new logistics centre in Hemmingen, Germany
2002 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Czech Republic, Singapore, China and South Korea
2003 Foundation HELUKABEL® India
2005 Foundation HELUKABEL® Turkey and Thailand
2006 Foundation HELUKABEL® Russia
2007 Foundation HELUKABEL® USA and Italy
2008 Expansion of the production capacities in the Windsbach plant & foundation of HELUKABEL® Belgium
2009 Acquisition of Kabelmat® Wickeltechnik GmbH in Glatten, Germany

2010 Foundation of HELUKABEL® South Africa and Malaysia
2012 Acquisition of Robotec-Systems GmbH in Kamp-Lintfort and of Kabelwerk Meißen Wilhelm Balzer GmbH
2013 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Canada, Indonesia, United Kingdom and representative office in the United Arab Emirates; commissioning of expansion of the fully automated logistics centre in Hemmingen
2014 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Austria; opening of production site in Taicang, China
2015 Expansion of Windsbach production site
2016 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Vietnam, Portugal, Brazil and Mexico
2017 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Bulgaria
2018 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Denmark; acquisition of CableXOy, Finland and URKUNDE S.A., Spain;
2019 Foundation of HELUKABEL® Romania, Hungary, Myanmar and Peru; acquisition of Eltron-Kabel, Poland

2021 - Majority interest in Primatec, Norway; Opening of the new administration building of the Hemmingen headquarters
2022 - Acquisition of EKD Systems GmbH in Erkrath, Germany; Acquisition of Sangel Systemtechnik GmbH in Bielefeld, Germany;Foundation of HELUKABEL® Morocco

2023 - Foundation HELUKABEL® Ireland and HELUKABEL® Colombia
2024 - Opening of the production and logistics facility in Changzhou, China

Corporate Movie

HELU Group sales evolution in million euros

Chart turnover development