EJOT UK: The Backstory
We’re not going to give you the full 100 year plus company history – instead, let’s begin in 1967. A lonely teleprinter (cutting edge comms technology back in the day) can’t function without a name – and the name has to be less than five characters long.
A problem for German company Eberhard Jaeger until some bright light played with the initials E and J, extending the J to the German phonetic pronunciation of ‘JOT’. And from that day onwards, the company became ‘EJOT’.
The previous 45 years are interesting, but in short, it’s a journey that started with Adolf Bohl’s nail shop in Bad Berleberg – a spa town in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany – and progressed through expansion, reinvestment, and acquisition to arrive at the all important teleprinter installation. The years that have followed are a tapestry of innovation – corner-stoned by the invention of the original PT plastics screw in 1977 – that sees EJOT firmly established as a world market leader and originator of fastening solutions.
Today, the company serves three key market sectors:
- ADVANCED ENGINEERING - Any manufacturing assembly that joins modern engineering materials.
- BUILDING ENVELOPE - From industrial units to aesthetic facades – EJOT fasteners are everywhere.
- SAFETY CRITICAL ANCHORING - Think power stations, bridges and tunnels.
Worldwide, EJOT has over 40 subsidiaries servicing these markets, employing more than 4,000 people who share the ethos of a family-run business still thriving on the same business principles of planned and self-financed expansion that began with the nail shop back in 1922: Innovate, profit, reinvest, expand.
