Ortofon A/S is a Danish manufacturer of electronic audio equipment. It is the world's largest producer of magnetic cartridges for phonograph turntables, with 500,000 cartridges sold annually.[1]
History
1918-1945: Founding and sound film
Ortfon was founded in Copenhagen as the Electrical Phono Film Company on 9 October 1918 by Danish engineers Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen. Initially focusing on sound film technology, Petersen and Poulsen experimented with synchronizing sound with moving pictures on film.[2]
1946-present: Rebranding to Ortofon
Ortofon began to diversify into gramophone record playback and cutting equipment towards the end of World War II. In 1946, the company was renamed to FonoFilm Industry A/S.