Schmalkalden tool combination
The VEB Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden was founded in 1969 as a state-owned combine and was one of the four combines of the VVB machine tools and tools (WMW). The products were marketed under the brand name Smalcalda . The main company was initially formed by the companies
- VEB Werkzeugunion Steinbach-Hallenberg and
- VEB tool and cutlery factories in Schmalkalden.
Hand tools , cutlery , mower knives, mining tools and wood drills were manufactured there.
The following companies were later incorporated into the parent company:
- VEB milling tools Asbach
- VEB tools and security fittings Asbach
- VEB Hartmetallwerkzeuge Sewing silence
- VEB screwing tools Schmalkalden
- VEB Stahlwaren Schmalkalden
- VEB precision carbide tools Schmalkalden
- VEB tools Schmalkalden
- VEB saw factory in Schmalkalden
Other companies of the tool combine were:
- File factory Sangerhausen ( files )
- VEB tool factory Radebeul (including wrenches )
- VEB Werkzeugfabrik Altenburg ( milling and threading tools)
- VEB Preßluftwerkzeuge Niles Berlin (plug-in and compressed air tools)
- VEB Vereinigte Werkzeugfabriken Geringswalde ( technical knives , tools for woodworking )
- VEB Hartmetallwerk Immelborn ( carbide inserts , chisels )
- VEB precision tools Schmölln (milling, broaching and gear cutting tools )
- VEB Rationalisierung Schmölln (rationalization means, including devices, etc.)
- VEB Werkzeugfabrik Königsee (drilling, reaming and sawing tools for metalworking)
- VEB Elektrowerkzeuge Sebnitz ( power tools , hand drills )
- VEB August-Bebel-Werk Zella-Mehlis (including drill chucks )
- VEB special tool factory Zella-Mehlis (including lathe chucks , gear and reaming tools)
- VEB engineering office of the tool industry Gera (from 1978 assigned to VEB rationalization)
- VEB Werbung und Messen Leipzig (later department of the export and domestic trade directorate)
- VEB Metallverarbeitung Brotterode ( snap hooks , rope connections)
- VEB Werkzeugschmiede Großschönau (tools for agriculture , horticulture and forestry )
- VEB Tools Leipzig (drilling tools and pneumatic nailers )
- VEB Technical Knives Berlin (Technical Knives)
- Central research center for the tool industry in Schmalkalden
- VEB hand tools Steinbach-Hallenberg
- VEB tools Fambach oil mill
The combine thus covered the entire tool product range and was the most important tool manufacturer in the GDR .
The combine was dissolved in 1990. The individual companies were given back their independence and were continued by the previous owners, former senior employees or tool manufacturers from the old federal states. Some of these companies or their successors still exist today (July 2010):
- Rennsteig Werkzeuge GmbH , Viernau (special pliers and striking tools; subsidiary of KNIPEX -Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG, Wuppertal )
- SWM Werkzeugfabrik GmbH & Co.KG, Steinbach-Hallenberg (pliers and forging blanks; part of the Stahlwille Group, Wuppertal)
- NWS Thuringia Production, Steinbach-Hallenberg and Schwarza (pliers, production site of NWS Germany Production W. Nöthen eK, Solingen )
- MWS Schneidwerkzeuge GmbH & Co. KG, Schmalkalden (machine knives)
- SMM Schmalkaldener Maschinenmesser GmbH, Schmalkalden (machine knives)
- Mining tools Schmalkalden GmbH & Co.KG, Schmalkalden (mining tools)
- Herwig Bohrtechnik Schmalkalden GmbH, Schmalkalden (drill bits)
- Werkö GmbH, Königsee (drill)
- BE Maschinenmesser GmbH & Co. KG, Spreenhagen (machine knives )
- BISON-Großschönauer Werkzeugschmiede GmbH, Großschönau (forest and garden tools)
- MHG Messerschmidt GmbH, Schmalkalden (chisel)
- PWS PRÄZISIONSWERKZEUGE GmbH, Schmölln (gear cutting and milling tools)
- Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH, Sebnitz (power tools; subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH )
- Tribo Hartstoff GmbH, Immelborn (carbide tools and blanks)
- GFE - Society for Manufacturing Technology and Development Schmalkalden eV (research and tool development)
- SAEFA GmbH, Schmalkalden (solid steel and hard metal circular saw blades; production site of Koll & Cie. GmbH & Co KG, Neunburg vorm Wald)
- Sandvik Tooling Supply Schmalkalden, Wernshausen (precision tools; subsidiary of the Sandvik Group)
literature
Ritter, G .: The VEB Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden - creation, development and dissolution of an industrial combine . In: Geostudien . tape 14 . Self-published, Cologne 1995, p. 1 - 24 .