EJOT is a medium sized Group of companies with application markets including the Construction, Automotive and Consumer Electronics industries. The group headquarters are in Bad Berleburg

Bad Berleburg

Bad Berleburg is a town, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest towns by land area. It is located approx...

 in the Siegen-Wittgenstein

Siegen-Wittgenstein

Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe, Hochsauerlandkreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, Altenkirchen.-History:...

 region in Germany

Germany

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History

The origin of EJOT is the former Adolf Böhl GmbH & Co. KG, a manufacturer of screws and nails founded in 1922 in Bad Berleburg - Berghausen.

In 1960, after the death of the founder, his nephew Hans W. Kocherscheidt inherited the company. In 1965 he bought the screw producing company Eberhard Jaeger in Bad Laasphe

Bad Laasphe

Bad Laasphe is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district.-Location:The town of Bad Laasphe lies in the upper Lahn Valley, near the stately home of Wittgenstein Castle in the former Wittgenstein district...

 and merged the two companies under the name EJOT.

In 1971 an Engineered Plastic Components production was added to the production in Bad Berleburg

Bad Berleburg

Bad Berleburg is a town, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest towns by land area. It is located approx...

. In 1993 EJOT acquired the former Volkseigener Betrieb

Volkseigener Betrieb

The Volkseigener Betrieb was the legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany...

, Schraubenwerk Tambach GmbH in Tambach-Dietharz

Tambach-Dietharz

Tambach-Dietharz is a town in the district of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Thuringian Forest, 19 km south of Gotha.- Places of interest :...

, Thuringia

Thuringia

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. With time, expansion, acquisitions and diversification developed the former screws company into the present business group with approx. 2200 employees. About 1500 employees are working in Germany, further 700 employees belong to foreign offices and connected companies in Europe, Russia, United Arab Emirates, China, Mexico and the USA.

In Mexico

Mexico

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, the company produces cold-formed fastener

Fastener

A fastener is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.Fasteners can also be used to close a container such as a bag, a box, or an envelope; or they may involve keeping together the sides of an opening of flexible material, attaching a lid to a container,...

s for various customers in the automotive industry, the electronics industry and the industry of household appliances. EJOTATF Fasteners de México is a Joint Venture between two important companies in the industry of fastening elements:

• EJOT GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
• ATF Inc., Lincolnwood IL, USA

The plant at the Parque Industrial Millennium in San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí

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 augments the San Luis Potosí Assembly

San Luis Potosí Assembly

San Luis Potosí Assembly is a General Motors assembly plant located in San Luis Potosí, Mexico — 400 km northwest of Mexico City. The facility was dedicated on July 30, 2008, with a June 2009 construction completion....

, a General Motors

General Motors

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assembly plant.

Products

The company manufactures engineered fasteners and cold-headed products such as:

Precision Fasteners for the Automotive and Consumer Electronics Industries, Complex Metal and Plastic Components for Individual Fastening Solutions, Trendsetting Fastening Technology for the Building Industry, Multifunctional Components and Fastening Elements.