Electrium is a German-owned British manufacturer of electrical wiring accessories, circuit protection, cable management, and control equipment. Electrium has three sites across the UK as of 2014: the main factory in

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, the distribution center at

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, and the head office at

Cannock Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolv ...

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. The company is under the ownership of

Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', ''E ...

UK.

Brand names

Siemens

After the takeover of ''Electrium Sales Ltd'' by Siemens AG in 2005, Electrium began to manufacture and distribute Siemens branded circuit protection and electrical equipment.

Crabtree

J. A. Crabtree & Co was founded in 1919 by John Ashworth Crabtree. The company became one of Britain's leading manufacturers of electrical accessories, low voltage switchgear and motor control gear. In 1972, the company was acquired by the

British Ever Ready Electrical Company The British Ever Ready Electrical Company (BEREC) was a British electrical firm formed in 1906 as the export branch of the American Eveready Battery Company. In 1914 it became independent of its American parent company. For decades the firm domin ...

, which was itself acquired by

Hanson Trust Hanson UK, formerly Hanson Trust plc, is a British-based building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. The company has been a subsidiary of the German company HeidelbergCement since August 2007, and was formerly listed on the London S ...

in 1981. For many years the company was based at the ''Lincoln Works'' in

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield. Walsall is th ...

, Staffordshire, which was closed in 1997.

Volex

Ward & Goldstone Ltd. was founded in 1892 by James Henry Ward and Meyer Hart Goldstone. The company's ''Volex Accessories'' brand is now part of the Electrium Group and manufactures and sells circuit protection and wiring accessories.

Wylex

George H. Scholes Ltd. was founded in the mid-1920s by George Hamer Scholes to manufacture electrical accessories and

fuse box A distribution board (also known as panelboard, breaker panel, electric panel, DB board or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fus ...

es. In 1934, he built the ''Wylex Works'' at Wythenshawe, near Manchester. The company's ''Wylex'' brand consumer units still dominate the UK market. However, in recent years RCD protected consumer units have generally replaced the old rewireable fuse units. Parent company Siemens have now begun manufacturing the MCBs used in the more of the company's products in Europe.

Appleby

H. & L. Appleby Ltd. was founded in 1840. The company's factory was in

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, Staffordshire. The company offers a comprehensive range of pattress boxes, dry lining boxes and bulkhead light fittings.

Marbo

Marbourn Ltd. was a British manufacturer of electrical accessories, based in the

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. The company closed its factory in Hartlepool in 2000.

Other uses

There is also a science museum in

Sainte-Julie, Quebec Sainte-Julie (; originally Sainte-Julie-de-Verchères), is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, east of Montreal in Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was ...

called Electrium, see Électriumbr>

References

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