Success­ story

Progress based on tradition

For more than a century our company has been standing for success in motion.
Whether in the Graf Zeppelin airship, the Daimler-Benz Silver Arrow or the 24-hour race of Le Mans: Motion and developments related to engines, technical springs and many other technical components, are what drives our company every day. The courageous footprints of the legendary company founder Sigmund Scherdel have encouraged many people to join and shape our company in the course of our corporate history. Even today, with the fourth SCHERDELgeneration, the signs are set for success, telling our success story:

1889

1889

1889

Kom­merzien­rat Sig­mund Scherdel founds a wire draw­ing mill for the pro­duc­tion of piano strings in Mark­tred­witz. The spring steel wire is soon processed into spokes, flex­i­ble shafts, ten­sion, com­pres­sion and tor­sion springs.

1893

1893

1893

Rudolf Diesel exper­i­ments with springs from SCHERDEL on the world’s first diesel engine.

SCHERDEL is devel­op­ing into one of the most impor­tant spring sup­pli­ers in the industry.

1902–14

1902

SCHERDEL springs are suc­cess­ful­ly used in the first road rac­ing cars.

1915

1915

Start-up of the first auto­mat­ic pro­duc­tion lines. The month­ly out­put of a series spring part exceeds 500,000 units for the first time.

1940

1940

The tech­no­log­i­cal advan­tage secures SCHERDEL a mar­ket share of up to 80% for impor­tant springs for the air­craft and auto­mo­tive industry.

1951

1951

1951

Daim­ler-Benz Arrows, NSU blue Whales, BMW motor­cy­cles and Porsche rac­ing cars achieve their first post-war suc­cess­es with valve springs from SCHERDEL.

1957

1957

The Eng­lish com­pa­ny Van­der­well can take part in races with its Van­well rac­ing cars, which are lat­er to become very well known, only after valve spring frac­tures can be elim­i­nat­ed through con­struc­tive design con­sul­ta­tions.  Stir­ling Moss wins the Euro­pean Grand Prix on Van­well. Qual­i­ty prod­ucts from Mark­tred­witz gain inter­na­tion­al recognition.

1961

1961

Wal­ter Bach, a grand­son of the com­pa­ny founder, takes over the com­pa­ny management.

In the new­ly built Mark­tred­witz-Leu­ten­­dorf plant, valve spring pro­duc­tion starts for the first time on auto­mat­ic pro­duc­tion lines. The con­trol meth­ods used ensure the high qual­i­ty stan­dard of series-pro­­duc­­tion to this day.

1966–78

1966–78

1966

Start of pro­duc­tion of pis­ton ring expanders. SCHERDEL is still the mar­ket leader in this seg­ment today.

SCHERDEL valve springs not only prove their worth on the road, but also on water. Dieter Quester sets three world records for Euro­pean sport boats on Lake Iseo in north­ern Italy.

BMW wins with its tour­ing car (valve springs from SCHERDEL) at Le Mans and in the Grand Prix of Tour­ing Cars at the Nürburgring.

The increas­ing impor­tance of the company’s own tool and machine con­struc­tion jus­ti­fies its inde­pen­den­den­cy. The Tool­ing Divi­sion is found­ed under the name of Comet GmbH, based in Berlin, and the machine con­struc­tion is found­ed under the name of AFEMA GmbH, based in Mark­tred­witz. Pro­duc­tion of spe­cial springs is start­ed at the Mark­tred­witz-Friedau plant.

1983

1983

1983

Nel­son Piquet wins the For­mu­la 1 World Cham­pi­onship in a Brab­ham-BMW. The valve springs for the M Pow­er engine come from SCHERDEL.

1985

1985

Start of internationalization.

Share­hold­ings in the French spring man­u­fac­tur­er Her­ck­­el­bout-Daw­­son S.A. and its sub­sidiary Rhône-Ressorts S.A. and Spires 2000 S.A.R.L..

1989

1989

1989

With the takeover of the com­pa­ny MECO (1988), an effi­cient tool shop for stamp­ing and bend­ing tech­nol­o­gy is estab­lished at the Walder­shof location.

In 1989, a new plant starts pro­duc­tion at the Walder­shof site in the field of stamp­ing and bend­ing tech­nol­o­gy. The build­ing with 4500 square meters of floor space is a suc­cess­ful exam­ple of con­tem­po­rary indus­tri­al architecture.

1991

1991

1991

Fed­ern­werke Marien­berg GmbH is tak­en over by the SCHERDEL Group. This allows expan­sion to large springs, stamp­ing parts and seat components.

The com­pa­ny Moltec, the largest spring man­u­fac­tur­er in Por­tu­gal, is tak­en over.

1994

1994

1994

Start-up of mod­ern sur­face tech­nol­o­gy instal­la­tions at the Mark­tred­witz site with state-of-the-art envi­ron­men­tal technologies.

1995

1995

Pro­duc­tion start-up at new loca­tions in Slo­va­kia and the Czech Repub­lic to open up East­ern Euro­pean mar­kets for tech­ni­cal springs and seat spring sys­tems for vehicles.

1996

1996

Joint ven­ture in Chi­na for the pro­duc­tion of valve springs.

Con­struc­tion of a new plant in Bor, Czech Republic.

1999

1999

1999

Devel­op­ment of spring ele­ments for the ful­ly vari­able valve train in BMW engines.

Start of series pro­duc­tion of com­pres­sion spring/gas damper sys­tems for inno­v­a­tive trunk lid mech­a­nisms and inde­pen­dent­ly open­ing trunk lids with tem­per­a­ture compensation.

Start of pro­duc­tion of plas­tic-met­al con­nec­tions for vehi­cle interiors.

Start-up of the SCHERDEL plant in Muskegon (Michi­gan), USA.

2000

2000

2000

Start of pro­duc­tion in Soro­ca­ba, Brazil.

2001

2001

Expan­sion of com­pres­sion spring pro­duc­tion at the new plant in Röslau.

2002

2002

2002

Com­ple­tion of the plant in Myja­va, Slovakia.

2003

2003

Joint ven­ture with the Japan­ese TOGO-Seisakusyo Group.

Foun­da­tion of SCHERDEL-TOGO Cor­po­ra­tion and TOGO-SCHERDEL GmbH. Pro­duc­tion of spring ele­ments for pis­ton rings in Japan and of hose clamps at the loca­tion in Marienberg.

 

 

 

 

New plant in Seifhennersdorf.

2004

2004

Com­ple­tion of the new plant in Seifhen­ners­dorf and start of series pro­duc­tion of dynam­i­cal­ly loaded spi­ral springs for camshaft adjusters.

 

Acqui­si­tion of Reichen­bach­er GmbH. Under the new name REICHENBACHER HAMUEL, the com­pa­ny from Dör­fles-Esbach com­ple­ments the machine and tool con­struc­tion division.

 

New pro­duc­tion loca­tion in Mexico.

2005

2005

As a con­tin­u­a­tion of an exist­ing com­pa­ny, weld­ing assem­blies and wire bend­ing parts are man­u­fac­tured in Treuen under the new com­pa­ny name SCHERDEL Schweiß- und Umformtech­nik GmbH.

2006

2006

Acqui­si­tion of GL-Spezial-Plati­­nen GmbH Chem­nitz. This expands the SCHERDEL Group’s man­u­fac­tur­ing exper­tise to fine-blank­ing parts.

 

New joint ven­ture in Chi­na: Foun­da­tion of Anqing SCHERDEL Auto­mo­tive Parts Co

2007

2007

2007

Con­struc­tion of a new plant in Anqing for Anqing SCHERDEL Auto­mo­tive Parts Co., LTD.

 

With valve springs from SCHERDEL, Audi, for the first time with a diesel engine, once again cel­e­brates vic­to­ry in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, fol­low­ing on from its rac­ing suc­cess­es in 2005 and 2006.

2008

2008

Inau­gu­ra­tion of the Wal­ter Bach Research and Devel­op­ment Cen­ter, which also hosts SCHERDEL SIMENT with numer­i­cal sim­u­la­tion and Innotec with prod­uct devel­op­ment and pro­to­type shop.

2009

2009

2009

Mar­cus Bach, great-grand­­son of the com­pa­ny founder Sig­mund Scherdel, joins the SCHERDEL­Group as assis­tant to the Gen­er­al Management.

2010

2010

Com­ple­tion of the 7th edi­tion of the SCHERDEL Spring Man­u­al in book form.

 

Open­ing of the new plant in Kalu­ga, Russia.

2013

2013

2013

Chris­t­ian Schiener, Mar­cus Bach and Max­i­m­il­ian von Walden­fels are respon­si­ble from 2013 for the suc­cess­ful future of the company.

2014

2014

2014

New future-ori­en­t­ed mar­kets such as med­ical tech­nol­o­gy and e‑mobility are suc­cess­ful­ly developed.

2015

2015

2015

Our com­pa­ny cel­e­brates its 125-year suc­cess story.

2018

2018

2018

Open­ing of the new Scherdel Huzhou plant in Zhe­jiang Province, China.

2019

2019

2019

Open­ing of the SCHERDEL Appren­tice­ship and Train­ing Cen­ter (SCHATZ) in Marktredwitz.