Kathrin Fricke (CHRO), Christian Sallach (CMO/CDO), Sebastian Schatt (CTO Interconnection) WAGO GmbH & Co. KG (/ˈvɑːˌɡoʊ/,[3] German pronunciation: [ˈvaːˌɡoː][4]) is a German company based in Minden, Germany that manufactures components for electrical connection technology and electronic components for automation technology.

In the same year, WAGO presented the first spring terminals at the Hannover Messe,[5] which however faced less reception due to ductility problems.

Until the mid-1990s WAGO established subsidiaries in France, Switzerland, Austria, USA, Japan, the UK and former East Germany (Sondershausen),[9] Czech Republic[10] and in India.

[8] In 1998, Wolfgang Hohorst founded the WAGO Foundation with the goal of promoting education and training for young people interested in technology.

[11] After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, WAGO announced that they set up a new plant in Sondershausen, Thuringia, which had a special role amongst the newly founded production sites.

One year after the announcement, operations in Sondershausen first started in a rented facility; since 1993, Wago has been producing in a newly built factory.

[13] In 2003, the company shares were bought back from Spirent PLC (formerly Bowthorpe), making WAGO into a family owned business again.

[11] In the 2000s, WAGO further developed existing products, notably, they improved the miniaturisation of the picoMAX connector system in 2010, in which glass fiber-reinforced plastics PAA-GF were used.

Other production sites are located in Wrocław (Poland), Domdidier (Switzerland), Germantown (United States), Noida (India), Tianjin (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Tremblay-en-France (France).

[2] WAGO manufactures components for electrical connection and decentralised automation technology as well as interface electronics.