Tschudin + Heid
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1892/1900 |
| Seat | Waldenburg , Switzerland |
| management | Tobias Patrik Schmid CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Branch | Medical technology, measuring technology, mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.tschudinheid.ch |
The Tschudin + Heid AG is a family in Waldenburg , in the Swiss canton of Basel-Land . It is active in the development and manufacture of precision mechanical articles for medical and measurement technology, mechanical engineering and for the watch industry.
history
In 1892 Alphonse Thommen , the owner of Gédéon Thommen - Uhrenfabrikation , founded a factory in Waldenburg to manufacture parts for the watch industry. Alphonse Tschudin and Fritz Heid took over the company in 1900. The collective company Tschudin & Heid, Waldenburg was created. For the time being, the company continued to concentrate on the production of simple turned parts such as screws, nuts, bolts and other parts that were required in watchmaking.
Reinhard Straumann joined Thommens Uhrenfabrik AG as a designer in 1916 , where he was technical director until 1938. In 1919 he married Fanny Heid from Arisdorf, the daughter of Fritz Heid.
In 1931 the collective company Tschudin & Heid was converted into the stock company Tschudin + Heid AG .
After Fritz Heid's death in 1935, his son-in-law Reinhard Straumann took over duties on the board of directors. From 1938 he was director and chairman of the board of directors. He was able to take over the shares of the deceased co-owner Alphonse Tschudin.
In 1945, JJ Buser AG in Basel was taken over.
Research laboratory
Straumann has been studying various fields in his spare time for years. With Heraeus, for example, he developed a nickel-iron alloy with beryllium. He called the material Nivarox, which he patented in 1935. To intensify his research, he set up a research laboratory in the house in 1938. New measuring methods and materials were sought. In this way the basics for the Nivaflex alloy could be worked out. Nivaflex was patented by Straumann in 1948. Due to the special material properties, Nivarox and Nivaflex are ideally suited for the production of drive and mainspring springs. For the first time, it was possible to manufacture unbreakable springs with the alloys developed . The two materials are still used in the manufacture of balance springs in Swiss watches today. 1954 arose from the research laboratory , the Institute Dr. Ing.Reinhard Straumann. In 1990, Straumann AG was founded, which in 1998 became Straumann Holding AG in Basel.
New production building
Towards the end of the 1950s, Straumann had a production building built in Bretzwil , which was expanded in 1979 and 1992. Up to 132 employees found new jobs in this plant. Production in Bretzwil was discontinued at the end of 2004. In 2005 the building was rented to Medartis AG , founded in 1997 by Thomas Straumann, Fritz's son and grandson of Reinhard Straumann .
Web links
- Tschudin + Heid AG website
- Website of Medartis AG , Basel
References and comments
- ↑ It was not until 1987 that the name was changed to Revue Thommen AG
- ↑ Tschudin + Heid AG About us . Retrieved December 23, 2016
- ↑ Alphonse Thommen changed the name and legal form of Gédéon Thommen - watch manufacture in 1905 .
- ^ Franziska Pfister: Straumann - godfather of three global companies. NZZ . January 1, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , from October 23, 2012, jubilation in Bretzwil . Retrieved December 23, 2016
- ↑ Medartis AG is active in the development of implants for oral, facial and maxillofacial surgery