Killark

Killark was founded in 1913 by MIT Graduate Joseph Desloge. He designed the electric fuse as we know it today, Killark (Kill the Arc) became the name of the company. The first factory was located on Locust Street in St. Louis, MO USA, with a ‘new’ facility erected in 1927.

With over 90 years of extensive experience, Killark is a leading manufacturer of weatherproof, harsh and hazardous location products suitable for standard, explosion proof and other hostile and adverse environmental applications. These products include conduit raceway fittings, junction boxes, enclosures, lighting fixtures, plugs & receptacles and standard and custom controls.

Killark manufactures quality standard and special application enclosures and fittings including hazardous location products for use in installations such as chemical plants, pipelines, grain elevators, coal handling facilities and refineries. These products include conduit raceway fittings, junction boxes, enclosures, lighting fixtures and standard and custom controls. Killark also is a major participant in the maintenance and repair, commercial and industrial construction segments of the domestic electrical construction materials market.

As a division of Hubbell since 1985, increased levels of capital have funded major new product initiatives and have enabled Killark to compete across the entire spectrum of electrical construction materials on a global basis.

Today Killark is known for individual customer solutions to complex hazardous location requirements. Utilization of existing designs coupled with value added engineering enables lower total installed cost systems with a lifetime of savings.