04/29/2014
Schuler celebrates 175th anniversary
From metalworking shop to globally operating group: The world’s leading press manufacturer has a long tradition
It’s Schuler’s birthday: the internationally successful press manufacturer is celebrating its 175th year in business in 2014. Louis Schuler founded the company in 1839 as a metalworking shop in Göppingen’s Sauerbrunnengasse. Nobody at the time would have thought that the little workshop would one day become a global corporation with sales of almost € 1.2 billion.
“There have been many milestones in Schuler’s success over the past 175 years,” says CEO Stefan Klebert, “and very few companies in Germany can look back on such a long and successful history.” A 175th company anniversary is rare: not even half of all German companies reach their 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Schuler’s celebrations will therefore include a central event for employees at its base in Göppingen, Germany, to be held in July. In addition, a special website (www.schulergroup175.com) presents 175 minor and major moments which have shaped Schuler over the years.
These include, for example, the moment in 1852 when founder Louis Schuler – inspired by the Great Exhibition in London one year previously – decided to dedicate his future to the construction of machines for sheet metal processing. However, he himself could no longer witness his company’s own exhibit at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900: the world’s first transfer press. Over the following years, the company’s headcount grew to 1,000. With a car body press for Opel in 1924, Schuler began supplying the fledgling auto industry, which is still its most important customer today.
Economic and technological milestones
After the Second World War, Schuler was the first company in the American sector to receive an export license. The painstaking reconstruction work was rewarded: in 1961, sales reached 100 million deutschmarks, in 1970 they exceeded 200 million. At the same time, the company drove its internationalization with the foundation of subsidiaries in Brazil and North America, for example, followed by China and India in the 90s.
Meanwhile, Peugeot launched production on the first Crossbar Transfer press with suction-cup tooling – supplied by Schuler. Further innovations in recent years, such as Compact-Crossbar presses, ServoDirect and TwinServo technologies, have underlined Schuler’s leading position in the field of metalforming. This is also reflected by its business success: in 2012, the Schuler Group posted sales of more than one billion euros.
“Over the past years, we have achieved a level of growth and earnings which we can be justly proud of,” concludes CEO Stefan Klebert. “We therefore want to celebrate this 175th anniversary together with our employees and look forward to a year full of exciting and entertaining moments.”
Timeline
1839 Company founded as a metalworking shop by Louis Schuler
1852 First metalworking machines produced
1863 Founding of Fritz Müller Construction and Decorative Metalworking in Esslingen
1866 Founding of machine tool factory Weingarten
1895 Schuler delivers the first minting press to China
1897 Founding of Erfurt Forming Technology GmbH
1900 Schuler presents the world’s first transfer press
1922 Founding of Gräbener Pressensysteme, Netphen
1924 Development of car body presses for mass manufacturing
1945 First Export License in the American sector
1946 Founding of Süddeutsche Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft in Waghäusel
1961 Sales exceed 100 million deutschmarks
1963 Founding of Machine Tool Plant Hermann Schleicher in Heßdorf
1965 Founding of Prensas Schuler S.A. in São Paulo (Brazil)
1967 Louis Schuler Fund (LSF) for Education and Science established
1973 Foundation of Gemminger Machine Tool Builders GmbH
1983 Schuler installs large panel transfer press with a three-axis transfer
1991 Crossbar transfer presses with suction-cup tooling supplied
1992 Foundation of Tianjin facility in China as joint venture
2003 World’s first Compact Crossbar press starts operating
2007 Acquisition of Müller Weingarten AG,
Launch of ServoDirect Technology (SDT)
2009 Production launched on world’s first press line with SDT
2012 Introduction of TwinServo Technology (TST)
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