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GERMAN FAMILY BUSINESS paves the way for ELECTRIC CARS

Sauerland, June 2014: The German family Business Mennekes Elektrotechnik GmbH will produce plugs for electric cars in 2017. This decision by the EU Commission has been decided as early as mid-April. Thereby, the Mennekes plug “type 2” replaces the earlier “type 1”. However, since the company cannot provide for the whole of Europe with its product, the managing director Walter Mennekes freed his patents.

In around 90 countries worldwide, represented with production facilities in China and the U.S., Mennekes is a world market leader with its core business of standardized industrial plugs and sockets of the CEE standard.