Swoboda (company)

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Swoboda

logo
legal form group
founding 1947
Seat Wiggensbach (headquarters)
management Christian Göser, Dr. Sebastian Herler, Dirk Müller, Klaus Rudolph, Harald Schöpp
Number of employees approx. 4,200
sales EUR 450 million (2018)
Branch Automotive supplier, technology company
Website www.swoboda.com

Swoboda is a group of companies in the automotive supplier business . The company develops and produces metal-plastic composite parts, sensors, actuators and control devices for the automotive industry . The company's headquarters are in Wiggensbach in the Oberallgäu district . Further locations are in Germany ( Schorndorf , Fürth , Karlsruhe ), the Czech Republic (2 plants in Jihlava ), Romania ( Timișoara , Sibiu ), China ( Kunshan ), USA ( Grand Rapids , Auburn Hills ) and Mexico ( San Juan del Río ) . Swoboda employs over 4,200 people worldwide (as of 10/2019). The company has been led by five directors with equal rights since July 1, 2018.

Products

Assemblies for transmission controls, steering controls, magnet assemblies, high-current assemblies, actuators, control devices and sensors are developed and produced. The company's customers are both automobile manufacturers and automotive suppliers .

history

Swoboda location in Wiggensbach (Allgäu)

The company was founded in 1947 by Max Swoboda as "Textil GmbH". In the beginning, fabrics, handkerchiefs and doormats were made. In 1961 the company entered the automotive supplier industry with the production of windshield wiper motors . In 1963 the name was changed to "Swoboda oHG" and the manufacture and assembly of turned parts and camping items. In the same year, the first deals were made with Robert Bosch GmbH ( contract production of suppressors , later of temperature sensors, winding elements and cable harnesses ). In 1968 Swoboda expanded its production range with the introduction of injection molding technology.

From 1977 the company traded as Gebr. Swoboda GmbH . In 1989 Kurt Swoboda and Ingo Granel took over the management. The Czech subsidiary was founded in 1994 and the US subsidiary in 1997. In the following years, the company expanded both the production facility in Wiggensbach and the two plants in Jihlava . In 1995 the first complex, interlinked automation system was put into operation. Sensor housings for airbag control units have been manufactured fully automatically since 2001 .

In spring 2016 Swoboda opened its new plant in Fürth . It should "become the nucleus in toolmaking for the worldwide Swoboda Group", said partner Matthias Groth at the laying of the foundation stone in November 2015.

Hartmann-exact KG in Schorndorf- Schornbach was a 100% subsidiary of Swoboda for many years, which with 200 employees and 80 million euros contributed to the group's total result of around 400 million euros. Since the merger on July 1, 2018, Swoboda and Hartmann-exact KG have been operating under the new brand name "Swoboda Technologies".

In spring 2018 Swoboda founded a joint venture with the Franz Morat Group, a manufacturer of gear wheels, under the name "Morat Swoboda Motion". The company aims to offer new drive technologies for e-mobility . On September 16, 2018, the foundation stone was laid for a new plant in Nowa Ruda , Poland . In October 2018, the company announced that it had recently acquired the Karlsruhe-based companies Ingenieur-Systemgruppe Zahn GmbH (ISZ) and Peter Systemtechnik GmbH (PST), which are active in electronics development.

Awards

In February 2007 the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises awarded Gebr. Swoboda GmbH with the "Medium-Sized Business Award Bavaria". In 2014 the company was awarded the Bavarian Quality Prize in the Industry category by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology . In 2018, the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy awarded Swoboda as one of the 50 fastest growing medium-sized companies in Bavaria as the winner of the "Bavaria's Best 50" competition . Swoboda has been named "Supplier of the Year" several times by its own customers (including Robert Bosch GmbH , Continental AG , General Motors ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swoboda website: Company. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Swoboda website: Company. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Swoboda website: Products. Swoboda Wiggensbach KG, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Swoboda website: Company. Swoboda Wiggensbach KG, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ Swoboda website: Members of the Swoboda management. Swoboda Wiggensbach KG, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Swoboda merges with Hartmann-exact. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Langenscheidt, Florian, 1955- Venohr, Bernd: Lexicon of German world market leaders . German Standards Ed, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86936-656-2 ( worldcat.org [accessed October 8, 2019]).
  8. ^ Swoboda website: News and press releases. In: Swoboda website. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
  9. ^ William Forster: Internet portal of the city of Fürth - Swoboda in the golf park. In: www.fuerth.de. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  10. ^ New Media Publisher GmbH, Kaarst: Swoboda: New plant for injection molding tools in Fürth. In: plasticker.eu. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Automobilwoche: Automotive supplier Hartmann-exact: Negotiating at the pain limit . ( automobilwoche.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Swoboda website. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Swoboda Hartmann and Franz Morat combine competencies - Kempten / Oberallgäu - B4B Schwaben. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  14. ^ Website Morat Swoboda Motion. Retrieved October 8, 2019 (German).
  15. ^ Gmina Miejska Nowa Ruda. Retrieved October 8, 2019 (Polish).
  16. ↑ Swoboda buys two Karlsruhe companies. Allgäuer Zeitung , October 19, 2018, accessed on October 24, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Bavarian Quality Award 2014, Industry category . Website of the Bavarian Quality Award. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  18. ↑ BAYERNS BEST 50 - Bavarian Ministry of Economics . In: Website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy . ( bayern.de [accessed December 3, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Swoboda website. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 55.8 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 14.4"  E