The Philips company at Oss is part of Philips Lighting, which dates back to 1930. It was the first Philips branch in the Netherlands outside the Eindhoven region. In the course of its existence, lighting fixtures were made especially.

The arrival of Philips to Oss is closely related to the departure, in 1929, of Anton Jurgens' Margarine factories from Oss to Rotterdam.

In the Jurgens terrain on the Kruisstraat, a Splendor light bulb factory would originally come, but it remained. However, in 1930, Philips, although the establishment initially remained modest, caused by the economic crisis. Man-made fittings, tube lamp holders, and street lighting. Part of the buildings was rented in 1936 on Desso carpet factory.

During the mobilization, some of the factory buildings were advanced by the army, and when the Second World War broke out, the factory was temporarily closed. However, when the Eindhoven Philips plants were bombarded in 1942, the Osse complex was storing goods, while the production of electron tubes began in 1943. Given the military significance of this product, the whole was under the command of the Wehrmacht. Some of the buildings were used by the occupier as a warehouse. When the occupier began to retreat in 1944, they took over raw materials and equipment, but the train that made it was bombarded.

After 19 September 1944, we were released, Philips returned and expanded strongly. In 1948 there were 1300 employees. Philips Oss became an independent company focusing on the production of lighting fixtures. The production of electron tubes moved to Sittard.

In 1958, the New Lives windmill, also known as The White Mill or Philip Mill, was purchased and taken into service as a receptionist.

In the early 1960s, a site was purchased at the Kantsingel, where a new factory was built. Gradually, the activities from the old factory moved here, and in 1979 the old factory was abandoned and demolished to make way for the residential area of ​​Boschpoort. About 1970, 1565 employees worked in Philips, which was the maximum number. TL bars and ballasts were manufactured at the factory.

In the early 90's, the operation followed Centurion, where the production of TL-beams moved to Nevers and many jobs were lost. One started producing the first models of light bulb, the so-called jampot. Later, however, the Compact Fluorescence Lamp (CFL) came, which was soon produced in China.

In 2002 a new reorganization took place, with the electromagnetic department (EMB) moving to Poland. Now, especially high-intensity DID (High Intensity Discharge) car lights were made and UHP (Ultra High Performance) lamps for project purposes.

Gradually, the factory evolved into a competence center, where especially new lighting products and processes were developed to produce them in large quantities elsewhere later. There were still a few hundred people working.

In 2006, Philips decided to withdraw all production activities from Oss, which would lead to 125 redundancies. In 2007, the establishment was largely closed. In its place, car dealers arrived. External source

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