Littelfuse is a global industrial technology company and leader in circuit protection, with power controls and sensing platforms serving industrial, transportation and electronics markets.
Littelfuse is a global industrial technology company and the world's leading supplier of circuit protection, with expanding platforms in power controls and sensing technologies. Founded in Chicago in 1927, the company began with an invention by its founder, Edward V. Sundt: a small, fast-acting protective fuse designed to safeguard delicate electronic instruments. Nearly a century on, that founding product remains the basis of a business that ships billions of electronic components each year to more than 100,000 end customers.
The company employs over 17,000 associates across more than 15 countries. Its components and systems serve industrial, transportation and electronics markets, including electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. Technical work spans circuit protection, fuse technology, power controls, sensing technologies and electronic component design.
Littelfuse describes its culture as mission-driven and rooted in solving safety problems, with an emphasis on the safety, reliability and performance of its solutions. The company states a purpose of empowering a sustainable, connected and safer world, and reports a strategy built on continuous evolution, strategic acquisitions and close partnerships with customers to design and deliver solutions.
