Schwarzmüller (company)

Wilhelm Schwarzmüller
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1871 (legal form: 1970)
Seat	Freinberg , Upper Austria
management	Roland Hartwig, CEO; Michael Weigand, CSO; Georg Preschern, CFO;
Number of employees	2290 (total), 850 (Austria)
sales	€ 364 million (2019)
Branch	towed commercial vehicles
Website	www.schwarzmueller.com

The Wilhelm Schwarzmüller GmbH , headquartered in Freiberg ( Austria ) is a provider of solid commercial vehicles .

In 2016 the Schwarzmüller Group employed 2,200 people, around 850 of them in Austria. Since January 2016 the company has been managed by Roland Hartwig, Michael Weigand and Georg Preschern. At the production sites in Hanzing (Austria), Žebrák ( Czech Republic ) and Dunaharaszti near Budapest ( Hungary ), Schwarzmüller produced 9,441 commercial vehicles with 2,290 employees in 2019 (2018: 9,306; plus 1.5 percent) and generated sales of 364 million euros.

The Schwarzmüller Group currently has an international organization in 21 countries in Central and Eastern Europe . In addition to the three production plants in Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, it has its own sales and service locations in fifteen countries and is represented by partners in a further three countries. The service organization currently comprises 350 locations on all European transport routes.

Company history

Foundation and expansion

Company headquarters in Freinberg

The company was founded in 1871 by Joseph Schwarzmüller as a forge in Passau (Germany). In 1921 the first truck trailer with wooden spoke wheels and solid rubber tires (on iron tires) was produced. In 1939 the company moved to Freinberg ( Upper Austria ) by Josef Schwarzmüller jun. In 1985 the company comprised four service plants in Austria and one in Germany.

expansion

Expansion began with the opening of the production plant in Budapest (Hungary) in 1990 . Three years later, the third production plant was opened in Žebrák (Czech Republic) and in 2009 another service plant followed in Bucharest (Romania).

In October 2018, Schwarzmüller took over a service and repair workshop in Eltmann, Franconia, between Bamberg and Schweinfurt on the A70. The expansion to a full sales, repair and service location takes place on more than 27,000 square meters.

In February 2020, the Schwarzmüller Group took over Hüffermann Transportsysteme GmbH, one of the leading German manufacturers of container transport trailers, based in Neustadt / Dosse (Brandenburg).

Strategic direction

From 1966 the product range of platform, tipping and wooden vehicles was expanded to include tank vehicles. In 2001, Schwarzmüller developed the segment tipping vehicle in lightweight construction. This vehicle should combine weight optimization with stability.

In 2009, the fully automatic side member production was put into operation at the company's Freinberg site. In the same year, Schwarzmüller produced the first moving floor semitrailer with steel and aluminum frames. In 2012, the company launched the newly developed ultralight platform saddle. In 2014, the Thermo-tipping semitrailer, the Tele-Mega-Platform semitrailer and the 3-axle double wedge tank semitrailer followed.

The Schwarzmüller Group has been represented at major trade fairs such as Bauma in Munich or the IAA in Hanover since 2014 .