History of Luxalp

Achille BENOIT, great-grandfather of the founder of Luxalp, created the Cluses Royal Watchmaking School and directed it for 41 years. As a teacher, he became famous for his innovative watch design.

Charles KRAUSS, grandfather of the founder of Luxalp, after studying watchmaking in Moutier, Switzerland, runs a watch shop in France, where he sells and repairs clocks.

Establishments CAILLER & KRAUSS, installed in the Arve Valley, realize, for large industrial developers, engine mechanisms for toys and fishing reels. Charles KRAUSS, future founder of Luxalp, directs the design office of the family company.

Charles KRAUSS grabes an opportunity to manufacture and sell metal lighting fixtures: Luxalp is founded.

Having a large machine park of cutting presses, resulting from the manufacture of toy mechanisms, Luxalp is moving towards electromechanical equipment.

Luxalp wins subcontracting contracts with major automobile and appliance suppliers for the production of precision cut springs and the assembly of pressure gauge mechanisms.

Luxalp, following a request from one of its historical customers, seized the opportunity to manufacture an electronic variator intended for drills for the general public. It incorporates a small metal switch of its design. Luxalp took the opportunity to start its first activity of assembly and welding of electronic components, and carries out a potting to protect them.

Luxalp designs and builds a small geared motor for card reading in public payphones.

During a specialized exhibition, Luxalp seduces a major player in fire safety who entrusts the re-design of an existing product to reduce the cost. It is a motorized actuator for resetting fire dampers.

In parallel, Luxalp is designing its first electromagnetic release to lock and unlock a smoke evacuation damper.

Following an opportunity, Luxalp wins a subcontracting contract with a textile equipment manufacturer. A manufacturing line (winding, overmolding, potting or rectification), intended to produce electromagnetic organs, is implanted in the Luxalp workshops.

After having made several customized designs for electro holding magnets on behalf of its customers, Luxalp decided to create its own range of selectro holding magnets: Lux'On for permanent magnet, Lux'Off for breaking current.

Luxalp renews its offer for fire safety by designing an innovative electromagnetic release and a motorized reset actuator for smoke evacuation dampers.

• To optimize the management of its activity and increase its productivity, Luxalp integrates a new ERP
• In parallel, in order to reconnect with its industrial origins, Luxalp changes its graphic identity by taking over the Luxalp logo from the beginning