History

  • 1950 Start of Dutch sales office Kerpen Kabel
  • 1972 Founding of Voltec
  • 1980 Voltec becomes a cable distributor for NS [Dutch railway services]
  • 1986 Start of the development of fibre optic cables
  • 1988 Voltec becomes the official cable distributor for IBM  
  • 1991 Introduction of the world's first STP-100 Mbit copper data cable [MegaLine]
  • 1994 New logo Voltec  
  • 1999 Commencement of production of fibreglass [GigaLine]   
  • 2001 Introduction of multimedia applications
  • 2004 Product portfolio for industrial environments provided with EN 50288-7 standard 
  • 2006 Kerpen is taken over by LEONI   
  • 2009 Introduction of C6A module system RJ45  
  • 2012 Voltec celebrates its 40-year anniversary, logo edited
  • 2014 Logo changed and new corporate design
  • 2014 New Voltec website