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Radiall
Summary
Radiall is a company that designs, develops, and manufactures connectors and associated components for use in electronic applications. The company offers interconnect components, including radio frequency/coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, antennas, fiber optic connectors and cable assemblies, microwave components and cable assemblies, microwave switches, and multipin connectors.
It serves the aerospace, defense, industrial, instrumentation, telecom, space and medical markets.
The company markets its products worldwide through a network of agents and distributors.
Co-founded by Yvon and Lucien Gattaz in 1952, it is headquartered in Paris, France. In 2018, Radiall's revenue was 357 million euros.
In the spring of 1952, two brothers, Yvon and Lucien Gattaz, founded Radiall. Yvon Gattaz was the entrepreneur who took care of the commercial and financial aspect of the business. Lucien was the inventor. He was more interested in the technical aspects of research and production. In 1953, they bought their first workshop in Paris, France. They had already chosen a slogan: "Speed & Quality."
At that time, France intended to be a world leader in television by using higher frequencies through its SECAM standard. The antenna had to be linked to the TV monitor with a coaxial cable. Yvon and Lucien worked hard to invent a cheap and easy-to-use interconnect that would fit the application. By 1954, Radiall was producing 100,000 connectors per month.
In November 1963, Yvon and Lucien inaugurated their first factory at Voiron in Isere, France. The factory was 2,500 m2 (27,000 sq ft). That same year, the company launched the coaxial connector Mini-Quick. Five years later, in 1968, Radiall built its headquarters at Rosny-Sous-Bois. This 4,000 m2 (43,000 sq ft) two-story building (the third floor came after) is made only of glass and foil.
By 1967, the Gattazes were already thinking about expanding in Europe, so they created a subsidiary in Staines, England: Radiall Microwave Components Ltd. In 1969, they opened another office in Buchslag, Germany: RGmbH.
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