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The “Together We Are Strong” educational initiative for young people with learning disabilities won the award “Selected Landmark 2011” as part of the competition “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas”.

J. Schmalz GmbH recently welcomed 50 international guests to their headquarters in Glatten. Employees from Schmalz branch offices and commercial partners were invited to the International Sales Meeting.

On September 1, Schmalz was proud to welcome 21 young people as new employees.

For the third time, Schmalz has worked together with the Evangelical School for Social Pedagogy at the Oberlinhaus in Freudenstadt, Germany to organize a week-long vacation program for the children of Schmalz employees.

To start off the year, Schmalz held its World Market Meeting at its headquarters in Glatten. The company used this opportunity to greet the managing directors of its 16 international subsidiaries. As in years past, the subsidiary that showed the strongest growth was acknowledged.

Vacuum technology from Schmalz is used in different industries, e.g. automotive production, production of solar cells, for clamping wood and metal or as ergonomic lifting devices for in-house logistics. Attention to basic environmental concerns always was an important goal for the company as well as a part of its daily business. Ecological considerations such as energy efficiency and recyclability are an integral part of production processes as well as of product development.

The “Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken Baden-Württemberg” honor Black Forest-based J. Schmalz GmbH for its wafer grippers.

With two Schmalz anniversary events and a number of meetings with international partners, June has been an exciting month for the J. Schmalz GmbH.

On June 14-15, the leaders of Schmalz’ foreign branch offices met at the 17th World Marketing Meeting in Glatten.

From razor blades to complex vacuum solutions for gripping and handling systems – Schmalz has been busy over the last 100 years of the company’s history. A good reason to celebrate.

In the 1930s, Johannes Schmalz began to increase advertising for his products.

When the hardening shop burnt to the ground in 1918, this could have easily meant the end of the company. But Johannes Schmalz refused to be discouraged. He rebuilt his razor blade factory to be bigger and better than ever before.

Company founder Johannes Schmalz developed a machine for producing razor blades and sold the first products

As part of the XVIth World Marketing Meeting, Schmalz honoured one of its subsidiaries as company of the year 2009.

Around the World, Schmalz is Perceiving a Much Less Tense Mood

Schmalz wins Axia Award from the consulting and financial services group, Deloitte, for sustainable and successful human resource management.

Together with his brother Dr. Kurt Schmalz, Wolfgang Schmalz lead the traditional business to a global leader in vacuum technology.

Participation in the Schmalz training course to become a "Certified Vacuum Technician" and in the "Vacuum Technology Compact Seminar" is thus state promoted and supported financially.

At company headquarters in Glatten, J. Schmalz GmbH has begun operations at their new production facility, which was only under construction for a single year. The 16.3 million euro project was inaugurated on 10 December 2009 in the company of more than 170 guests including representitives from the political arena, associations, institutions, companies from the region and also from the companies involved in the construction.

The “Fit für den Wissenswettbewerb” initiative (“Ready for the Knowledge Competition”) has awarded J. Schmalz GmbH the prize for exemplary knowledge management in small to medium-sized businesses.

The Schmalz ecological guided tour is one of the prize winners in the national innovation competition “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas”.

After intensive, experimental tinkering, Dr. Kurt Schmalz developed a novel pneumatic work table for a carpenter.

Future-oriented investments and product innovations give Schmalz an optimistic outlook on what’s to come.

Schmalz presents a wide range of apprenticeships

The largest construction project in the history of the company is now at its peak. The external facade of the new production facility was completed in June.

The initiative „Germany - Country of Ideas“ awarded Schmalz for its ecological guided tour as “Exclusive Place 2009”.

Construction work for the new production facility is on schedule.

Employees appreciate the corporate philosophy of the company in Glatten

Schmalz celebrates in the Community Hall in Dornstetten.

Company initiative creates more training positions for young people with learning problems

Artur Schmalz, the father of the current managing directors of J. Schmalz GmbH, died on 20 September 2008, at the age of 95 years

Ground-breaking ceremony for new building which will double the production area

Water power reduces CO2 emissions by 124 tonnes per year

13 Schmalz employees enjoy success at sports weekend

At a small ceremony, we were recently honoured by our software partner "ABAS-Projektierung", with headquarters in Karlsruhe, for our many years of cooperation and partnership.

Schmalz has been using water power for almost 100 years

Company initiative starts preparations for the second round of training

As part of a tour of the economic region of Freudenstadt on 18 December 2007, District President Dr. Rudolf Kühner and Ms. Graf from the Regional Administration Authority in Karlsruhe visited the Schmalz headquarters