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In the beginning, there was Olflex Wire & Cable and Contact Electronics. The time has come for Industrial Evolution. Olflex and Contact have made the perfect connection by uniting to form Lapp USA.

Lapp USA has relocated to a new U.S. headquarters in Florham Park, NJ. This completely renovated, 130,000 square foot facility will also house a state of the art cable manufacturing plant, Lapp Cable Works. In addition to the manufacturing site, the Florham Park location will also be the new home of Lapp Systems USA, another Lapp Group company, which provides complex harnesses, integrated systems solutions, and custom cable assemblies.

The Lapp Group, based in Stuttgart, Germany, was founded by Oskar Lapp, who, in 1959 produced the first multi-conductor flexible control cable. Today the Lapp Group, with more than 45 companies, is one of the leading suppliers worldwide for wire and cable, cable accessories, industrial connectors and communication technology.

Founded in 1976, Olflex Wire and Cable is one of the leading suppliers of wire and cable products for the automation markets in North America. Its diverse product line of flexible, oil-resistant and continuous-flex cables, connectors and accessories is used by a variety of companies serving the automotive, machine tool, semiconductor, electronic assembly, pharmaceutical, robotics and automation industries.

Founded in 1979, Contact Electronics offers a broad range of products, which include: EPICŪ (Environmentally Protected Industrial Connectors) Multi-pin connectors, strain-relief, circular connectors, and remote access ports. Our connectors are used throughout the world in automotive plants, machine tools, instrumentation, medical electronics, telecommunications, robotics, industrial automation, transportation (trains, railway cars, elevators, and escalators), general industrial controls systems, as well as many other applications.