History
1900 Charles-Louis Maillefer - brother of the Dentsply-Maillefer founder - starts running the company Maillefer in CH-Romainmôtier (Jura).
1967 The machine department is established at Nokia Cable Factory in Finland
1982 Development of fiber optic machinery is begun
1987 Nokia Cable Machinery and Maillefer merge to become Nokia-Maillefer Group
1995 Listing of Nokia-Maillefer shares on the SWX in Zurich. Until this date, the stock was mainly traded in Geneva
1998 Unified Corporate identity is launched. Nokia-Maillefer becomes Nextrom Holding SA and is listed under this name on the SWX mainsegment in Zurich
2000 Strategic focus on Fiber Optics
2001 Outsourcing of the Cable-Wire Division called Maillefer
2005
  • Knill Gruppe (Austria) becomes the majority shareholder of Nextrom, buying the shares from Nokia
  • CommCept AG (Switzerland) acquires the Nextrom shares from Knill Gruppe
  • Nextrom restructures its business and divests the loss-making fiber optic units
2006 Nextrom Holding AG becomes Spirt Avert AG by a name change
2007
  • Spirt Avert received CHF 20.7 million for its first capital increase
  • The new founded subsidiary mindset AG aquires the automotive stardesigner Murat Günak as its Co-Initiator
2008
  • Spirt Avert focuses on the development of the electric vehicle mindset and lays the foundation for a serial production
  • During the first half of the year, emphasis is on the presentation of a technology carrier and various models of the mindset vehicle; the second half of the year marks the launch of the first drivable mindset prototype