In the 50s, the upswing in industrialisation led to a huge demand for cables and conductors. Faced with this development, Oskar Lapp asked himself a simple question: "How can I optimise the current method - the time-consuming manual inserting of single cores and switching strands into the outer sheaths?" His answer: Invent the first industrially produced flexible, colour-coded signal cable - ÖLFLEX®.
