From the start in 1910, Draka has grown significantly over the years. Below you will find an overview with the main achievements in the past 100 years.
1910 Draka was founded by Jan Teewis Duyvis, under the name: Hollandsche Draad &
Kabel Fabriek (Dutch Wire & Cable Factory)
1970 Draka was acquired by Philips N.V. and became part of the division Wire & Cable
1986 Draka Holding N.V. became independent via a buy out financed by Parcom and Flint
Beheer
1988 Acquisition of Boston Insulated Wire (USA & UK)
1989 Acquisition of Kabelwerke Wagner 50% (Germany)
Acquisition of Communication & Control engineering (UK)
1990 Acquisition of Chromatic Technologies (USA)
1991 Acquisition of Industria Cunha Barros 50% (Portugal)
Listed on the stock market (Euronext Amsterdam)
1992 Acquisition of NEK (USA & UK)
Acquisition of Sindutch Cable Manufacturer (Malaysia)
1993 Acquisition of Philips Optical Fibres & Yangtze Optical Fibres 37.5% (NL & China)
Acquisition of Coquesa (Spain)
Acquisition of Ralocar (Spain)
1994 Acquisition of Kabelwerke Wagner remaining 50% (Germany & Turkey)
Acquisition of Höhn (Germany)
Acquisition of Suzhou 60% (China)
Acquisition of NKT 70% (Denmark)
Acquisition of Kabelwerke Reinshagen (Germany)
1995 Acquisition of White Holding Group 70% (NL & UK & France)
Acquisition of White Insulated Cable 28% (NL)
Acquisition of Associated Cables 48% (India)
1996 Acquisition of Draka NKT remaining 30% (Denmark)
Acquisition of White Holding Group remaining 30% (NL & UK & France)
Acquisition of White Insulated Cable remaining 72% (NL)
1997 Acquisition of Gifi (France)
Acquisition of Cedegalsa (Spain)
Acquisition of Suzhou Draka Cable remaining 40% (China)
Acquisition of Oman Cable Industry 34.7% (Oman)
Disposal of BIW Connectors (USA)
Acquisition of Tamaqua Cable (USA)
1998 Joint Venture NK Wuhan Cable (China)
1999 Acquisition of MCI Cable Co. 64% (Thailand)
Acquisition of Delta (UK)
Acquisition of Republic Wire & Cable (USA)
Acquisition of NKF (NL)
Acquisition of the cable activities of ABB (Norway & Sweden)
2000 Joint venture of Draktel 50% (Brasil)
Acquisition of Telcon 28% (Brasil)
Acquisition of NK RF Brasil 78% (Brasil)
Acquisition of ANK remaining 50% (Brasil)
Acquisition of rubber cable activities from Felten & Guilleaume Kabelwerke
(Germany)
2001 Disposal of Industrias Cunha Barros 50% (Portugal)
2003 Acquisition of Atlas Metal Works (USA)
2004 Draka & Alcatel form Draka Comteq B.V.; Draka owns 50.1% and Alcatel 49.9%
Change in organisational structure: Draka divided its activities into two groups:
Draka Cableteq & Draka Comteq
Disposal of the copper datacommunication cable activities (USA)
2005 Disposal of NKF Electronics (NL) & NK Networks & Services (Germany)
Acquisition of Oakwell Engineering 29.9% (Singapore)
2006 Acquisition of insulated cable activities from International Wire Group (USA) in
Cebu, (Philippines) and Durango (Mexico)
Acquisition of Cornelia Thies Kabeltechnik (Germany)
2007 Draka acquires full ownership of Draka Comteq B.V.
2008 Acquisition of DeBiase Lift Components s.r.l. in Milan (Italy)