HELU

HELU, known as HELUKABEL until its 2025 brand change, is a German family-owned business that manufactures and distributes cables, wires, cable accessories and broader electrical connection technology. Founded in Hemmingen near Stuttgart in 1978 by Helmut and Heidi Luksch, it began as a sales company for cables, wires and accessories. The company added its own cable production when its Windsbach cable works opened in 1988. Its headquarters remain in Hemmingen, Germany. The company presents itself as more than a cable supplier: its current brand positioning emphasizes systems, project partnership and solutions tailored to customers’ applications. Its portfolio includes cables and wires, cable accessories, ready-to-install and pre-assembled drag-chain systems, energy chains and custom-made products. Applications span industrial automation, machinery and plant engineering, building technology, mobility, energy and other sectors. The company highlights the challenges of dynamic movement, bending and torsion, mechanical or chemical exposure, and restricted installation space. Its website also foregrounds solutions for renewable-energy applications and modular energy-chain systems. HELU serves customers in Germany and internationally. The supplied company history reports 76 locations in 43 countries by 2025. Its expansion has included overseas and European subsidiaries, manufacturing and logistics facilities, and acquisitions or majority investments in specialist businesses. The group includes, among others, cable winding-technology, cable-production and connectivity-solutions businesses. A central logistics facility in Hemmingen supports distribution, while the company also operates production locations in Germany and China. HELU is described as an internationally active family-owned company rather than a listed corporation. The reported group managing directors are founder Helmut Luksch, his son Marc Luksch and Andreas Hoppe. The German Wikipedia material reports approximately 2,500 employees worldwide and 2023 revenue of almost €1.1 billion; these are historical reported figures, not current performance estimates. In 2025 the company introduced HELU as its new brand name and logo, presenting the change alongside a strategic emphasis on being a systems provider for electrical connection technology.

Helu Kabel GmbH was founded in 1978 in Hemmingen near Stuttgart by Helmut Luksch and his wife Heidi. It began as a distributor of cables, wires and accessories. The company expanded from distribution into manufacturing in 1988, when its cable works in Windsbach near Nuremberg opened. The plant was subsequently enlarged several times. During the following decades, the company developed an international network of subsidiaries. Its expansion covered European markets including France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Turkey, and overseas markets including the United States, Singapore, South Korea, India, China and Thailand. In 2001 it opened a logistics centre in Hemmingen, strengthening its distribution infrastructure. The group broadened its capabilities through acquisitions and investments. In 2009 it acquired Kabelmat Wickeltechnik GmbH in Glatten. In 2012 it acquired Robotec-Systems GmbH in Kamp-Lintfort and invested in Kabelwerk Balzer in Meißen. The Hemmingen logistics centre was expanded in 2013; the reported €35 million project more than doubled its storage capacity. In 2014 the company opened a production facility in Taicang, China. Further expansion followed in Europe. In 2018 the company took a majority stake in Urkunde S.A. in Spain, and in 2019 it took a majority stake in Eltron-Kabel in Poland. In 2019 it also began building a new headquarters beside its high-bay warehouse in Hemmingen, bringing technical and commercial departments together. The new headquarters was completed in 2021. That year the company took a majority stake in Norway’s Primatec. In 2022 it acquired EKD Systems GmbH in Erkrath and Sangel Systemtechnik GmbH in Bielefeld, and began construction of another production and logistics site in Changzhou, China. Alongside these investments, the company continued to expand its international sales network, including subsidiaries in Austria, Mexico, Brazil and Morocco. The supplied company account states that by 2025 the group had 76 locations in 43 countries. Its businesses include cable and wire production, cable accessories, cable winding technology, connectivity solutions and energy-chain systems. The company also makes custom products for customer requirements and serves applications across industrial automation and other sectors. In 2025 the company adopted HELU as its brand name, replacing HELUKABEL, and introduced a new logo. Its current presentation describes a strategic move toward being a systems provider and project partner for electrical connection technology. The company remains family-owned; the supplied company history identifies founder Helmut Luksch, his son Marc Luksch and Andreas Hoppe as group managing directors. It reports approximately 2,500 employees and 2023 revenue of almost €1.1 billion.

• 2025

  Brand changes from HELUKABEL to HELU

• 2022

  Connectivity acquisitions and Changzhou construction

• 2021

  New headquarters completed; Primatec investment

• 2019

  Eltron-Kabel investment and new headquarters project

• 2018

  Majority stake in Urkunde S.A.

• 2014

  Production site opens in Taicang

• 2013

  Hemmingen logistics centre expanded

• 2012

  Acquisitions and investment expand capabilities

• 2009

  Kabelmat Wickeltechnik acquired

• 2001

  Hemmingen logistics centre opens

• 1988

  Own cable production begins

• 1978

  Helu Kabel founded in Hemmingen

A German cable manufacturer and systems provider offering reliable, application-specific electrical connection technology and project support across industrial and energy sectors.

• Cables and wires

  Products for energy, signal and data transmission across industrial and other applications.

• Cable accessories

  Accessories supplied alongside the company’s cable and wire offering.

• HELUCHAIN® systems

  Modular energy-chain systems for linear-motion applications.

• Custom connection solutions

  Special products made to customer requirements.

1. 1HELU official homepagehelu.com
2. 2HELU Success Storieshelu.com
3. 3Helukabel — German Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
4. 4HELU: Lantech packaging-machine success storyhelu.com
5. 5Helukabelwikidata.org