Schubert & Salzer group of companies
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1883 in Chemnitz |
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Ingolstadt , Germany
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| Number of employees | approx. 450 (worldwide) |
| Website | www.schubert-salzer.com |
The Schubert & Salzer GmbH is a group of companies with headquarters in Ingolstadt . The companies Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH, Schubert & Salzer Feinguss Lobenstein GmbH and Schubert & Salzer Data GmbH operate under the umbrella of Schubert & Salzer Holding.
The company is a family business . Arnold Kawlath, Bertram Kawlath and Wolfgang Betz provide the management of the holding.
In addition to the Ingolstadt and Bad Lobenstein locations in Germany, the company has its own subsidiaries in Benelux, France, Great Britain and the USA. In India, the company has a liaison office in Mumbai.
The group's total turnover in 2012 was around EUR 50 million.
Schubert & Salzer today
Today the following companies operate under the umbrella of Schubert & Salzer Holding:
The Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH developed, based in Ingolstadt, manufactures and sells valve technology to control fluid and flowing media for use in industrial processes. They are used, for example, in the manufacture of chemical and pharmaceutical products, in food processing, when filling beverages or in the production of steel, paper and solar cells.
The Schubert & Salzer investment casting Lobenstein GmbH is an investment casting foundry. Molochite-zirconium shell and quartz-ceramic shell are used in production. In the investment casting process , particularly complex cast parts with a high level of surface accuracy, high level of detail and very low dimensional tolerance can be produced. The entire added value, from development to series production, takes place at the German location in Bad Lobenstein.
The Schubert & Salzer Data GmbH has its headquarters in Ingolstadt and developed ERP / PPS software solutions based on the needs of industrially unjustifiable medium-sized companies are aligned.
history
The Schubert & Salzer textile machine construction in Chemnitz
The history of Schubert & Salzer began in 1883 with Carl Schubert and Bruno Salzer in Chemnitz . The wave of mechanization prevailing at the time prompted the two locksmiths to set up a machine construction factory for stocking knitting machines . Production initially took place in a small back building at Chemnitz Poststrasse 69. The flat knitting machines built there, based on the model of the Englishman Arthur Paget , were so successful on the market within a short time that the company soon expanded.
In 1887 the two founders acquired an area of 4,880 m² on Adorfer Strasse, where the first factory was built. In 1889 the company became a public limited company with a share capital of 500,000 Goldmark and was called Chemnitzer Wirkmaschinenfabrik AG from then on.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the product range included: knitting machines of all kinds, jacquard-petinet machines, tulle, warp, sewing and winding machines as well as curtain chairs and precision machine tools for various applications. The brief start of the production of bicycles and cash registers in 1904 led to another change of the company name to Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik AG.
The entry into casting production
Since the textile machines of that time consisted largely of cast parts and steel, the demand increased as the range of products increased. This led to Schubert & Salzer taking over the Hugo Schreiter iron and metal foundry in 1907 and the CE Seidel iron foundry, both based in Chemnitz, in 1916.
Despite the global economic crisis , business developed positively and the business premises continued to expand. Section G with its 63 meter high clock tower was created in 1927. The construction based on the tower buildings in Northern Italy is the work of the architect Erich Basarke . The active tower of Chemnitz still shapes the cityscape today.
The Schubert & Salzer spinning machine construction in Ingolstadt
In 1938 Schubert & Salzer acquired the majority of shares in DESPAG (Deutsche Spinnereimaschinen AG Ingolstadt). This was the former Royal Bavarian Gun Foundry, which has been located in Ingolstadt since 1885 . Under state administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria, this was restructured into an efficient spinning machine construction factory.
After the First World War and at the end of the Kingdom of Bavaria, the iron and steel foundry had been converted to customer cast production, the so-called peace production, and was now delivering the cast parts required for the spinning machines. Another mainstay of the foundry was the manufacture of water and steam fittings.
New beginning after 1945
Despite being involved in armaments work, textile machinery construction remained dominant during the Second World War. Both textile machines and fittings were almost exclusively exported.
After the end of the war, the Ingolstadt production benefited from being the only spinning machine construction company in Germany that had survived. The Chemnitz parts of the business, on the other hand, were transferred to public ownership as early as 1946. On August 17, 1948, the company Schubert & Salzer Maschinenbau AG was deleted from the commercial register by order of the Saxon state government in Dresden and the business units were assigned to various large companies in the former GDR, including the later Combine Textima . Ingolstadt then became the new headquarters and, from 1952, also manufactured investment cast products in addition to cast iron.
Restructuring to Schubert & Salzer GmbH
In 1987, the Swiss machine factory Rieter, based in Winterthur, acquired the majority of the shares in Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik AG. Three years later, in 1991, Dr. Arnold Kawlath and the Deutsche Beteiligungsgesellschaft took over the cast and fittings areas of Schubert & Salzer. Under the holding company of Schubert & Salzer GmbH, a group of companies was created that consisted of four companies: Schubert & Salzer Eisenguss GmbH, Schubert & Salzer Feinguss GmbH, Schubert & Salzer Ingolstadt-Armaturen GmbH and Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH.
In the course of German reunification, the Schubert & Salzer group of companies initially acquired the spheroidal casting foundry of GISAG AG in Leipzig and Feingusswerk Lobenstein GmbH in Thuringia. The factory in Bad Lobenstein soon became the main location for the production of investment casting. In 1993 production was relocated from Ingolstadt to Thuringia. In the following years, the foundry in Leipzig invested in new buildings and modern equipment, including a Heinrich Wagner Sinto molding plant. In 1994, the second oldest German foundry, Eisenwerk Erla GmbH in Saxony, founded in 1330, was acquired. At the same time, the subsidiary Schubert & Salzer UK Ltd. was established in Great Britain. founded. Investments were also made in Erla and in 1995 all of the remaining foundry activities were relocated from Ingolstadt to Erla. In the same year the Schubert & Salzer large parts iron foundry in Leipzig was sold to Georg Fischer AG .
In 1996, all rented buildings in Ingolstadt were given up and the company moved into its own premises at Bunsenstrasse 38. The subsidiary Schubert & Salzer France SARL was founded in 1997, followed by the foundation of Data GmbH in 1998 and Schubert & Salzer Inc. in Concord NC, USA in 1999. Through the sale of the domestic water and safety fittings division in 1998 to the British Delta Group, this business area was also restructured. The industrial valves division (Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH) remained in the group of companies.
In 2004 the company became a purely family business. In 2007 the subsidiary Schubert & Salzer Benelux BVBA / SPRL was founded. Schubert & Salzer Eisenwerk Erla GmbH was bought by the Indian Sanmar Group in the same year. An Indian liaison office was founded in Mumbai, India in 2011.
Others
The former foundry building of Schubert & Salzer in Chemnitz is now one of the industrial cultural monuments. The then directors of Schubert & Salzer attached great importance to design. The type and presentation of the Art Nouveau font about Schubert & Salzer from 1927 show that those responsible knew how to appreciate artistic work. The famous photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch took around 1500 industrial photos of Schubert & Salzer between 1955 and 1966, most of which are now in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Web links
- Official website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Schubert & Salzer group of companies in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://controlsystems.schubert-salzer.com/ website of Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH
- ↑ http://www.feinguss-lobenstein.de/ Internet site of Schubert & Salzer Feinguss Lobenstein GmbH
- ↑ https://datasystems.schubert-salzer.com/ website of Schubert & Salzer Data GmbH
- ↑ 75 years of textile engineering / Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft Ingolstadt; the portrait of an industrial company. Edited by Schubert & Salzer AG, Ingolstadt 1958, DNB 969346417 , p. 23 and p. 30–31.
- ↑ 100 years of foundry tradition in Chemnitz . Edited by Flender Guß GmbH, Wittgensdorf 1998, OCLC 248596500 , p. 38.
- ^ Frank Richter: Industrial architecture in Chemnitz 1890–1930 . Thom-Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930383-10-1 , p. 70 and plate 24.
- ↑ a b 75 years of textile engineering / Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft Ingolstadt; the portrait of an industrial company. Edited by Schubert & Salzer AG, Ingolstadt 1958, p. 53.
- ^ Erich Maßl: 110 years of Ingolstadt foundry history . Creative-Verlag, Ingolstadt 1996, ISBN 3-931341-06-2 , p. 65.
- ↑ 100 years of foundry tradition in Chemnitz. Edited by Flender Guß GmbH, Wittgensdorf 1998, p. 61.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Schütt: Continuity through change - The Schubert & Salzer group of companies . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-361-00552-3 , pp. 79-86.
- ↑ http://www.schubert-salzer.com/
- ^ Karl-Heinz Schütt: Continuity through change - The Schubert & Salzer group of companies . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-361-00552-3 , p. 91.