Julius Blum GmbH

Julius Blum GmbH is an Austrian manufacturer of cabinet hardware, founded on 1 March 1952 in Hoechst, Vorarlberg, by Julius Blum, a farrier and carriage smith whose first product was a horseshoe stud. Still family-owned, held by Martin Blum, Philipp Blum and the Blum Private Foundation, the company is today one of the world’s leading makers of hinges, drawer runners, box and lift systems.

Blum employs around 9,950 people worldwide, 6,760 of them in Vorarlberg, where eight plants operate alongside the headquarters; further production sites are in the USA, Poland and China, for sales of about 2.7 billion dollars in more than 120 countries. Product development is organised around movement and ergonomics, from BLUMOTION soft closing and SERVO-DRIVE to TIP-ON and the AVENTOS lift systems, and BLUMOTION won the European Inventor Award in 2013.