Santon
Santon was founded in the United Kingdom in the thirties of the last century by Harold Curtis Sanders and James Frasier Fulton. These gentlemen developed a switch with unique features that offered solutions in a rapidly electrifying industry in the United Kingdom and which today still forms the basis of the current packet switch one of the products that Santon manufactures. In the sixties the Hope on the sluisjesdijk in Rotterdam became Santon’s representative in the Netherlands, De Hoop came into the hands of GTI via the Steenkolen trade association and with that Santon became part of this company. After Santon UK ended up in heavy economic weather, it was taken over by Santon Holland bv at the time as part of GTI, so Santon UK became a branch of Santon Holland. In 2004, the business connections with GTI also came to an end via a Management Buy In and in 2008 the lease of the building on the Willingestraat was terminated and the activities were continued in a modern business premises on the Hekendorpstraat in Rotterdam IJsselmonde (after which in 2011 Santon Circuit Breaker Services BV was also established).