Schalksmühle, 10 November 2016. The partnership between Lumberg, an owner-managed manufacturer of quality connectors and Mütron Müller GmbH & Co. KG in Achim, a distributor in the field of electromechanics, cable and equipment assembly, boasted its 35^th anniversary this year. Back then, Lumberg celebrated its 48^th anniversary; Microsoft had just launched MS-DOS and Sony the 3½” diskette, when Siegfried Müller and Heinz Knapp, the founders of Mütron, added the first Lumberg products to their product range for distribution throughout Germany’s north. A handshake sealed the beginning.

Reason enough for Lumberg to distinguish this long-standing and close business relationship. With its Recognition of Excellence award, presented for the sixth time since 2012, the Lumberg Group honored years of close ties between the two businesses in Germany. “35 years are a long time. The trial period ended a long time ago with a positive outcome and we have grown together not only in economic terms, but our contact with each other and the fact that we can depend on one another are success factors that mark this long-standing co-operation”, so the summary of Meike Schmidt, Managing Partner of Lumberg Group. “Mütron has been handling a growing number of complex projects and as a result, has moved into our ranking of top ten distributors”, added Peter Maffei, Sales Manager Global Sales Distribution of Lumberg Connect while handing-over the bronze statue made exclusively for Mütron, to Matthias Strutz, managing director at Mütron, at the Lumberg booth in Hall B2.

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