Company history

new contruction of a production and storage hall with an area of 4000m²

Increase the machine capacity for the milling department for the chokes and transformers.
Optimizing the production of middle frequency transformers (mf-transformers)
Steady upgrading of the choke production

Value-Stream-Mapping to reduce the delivery times.
Amount of employees rise to 155 people
Development of a new series of AFE-Filter and commutating inductor
Steady increase of the capacity for water-cooling reactors.

Increase of activities for power supplies and control systems
First projects with inductive charging for busses and railways
Investment in big winding machines for High power transformers
Biggest low voltage transformer in Schmidbauer’s history with a power of 2,5 MW

Starting the vacuum-pressure-impregnation (VPI-technology) especially for railway water proofed transformers and reactors
and new ovens
Reconstruction of the administrative building.
Employ number rises to 140

Further extracting of the sales network
New production facility in Spanberg with approx.. 2000m² for the production of flat wire windings and copper- and aluminium- windings for high power transformers and chokes up to 5 ton per piece
New foil winding machine

Installing a world-wide sales network
Increase the aluminium-foil – technology for transformers and inductors.
Increase the development team for chokes and filters (LCL,AFE)

Construction for an stock- and logistic – facility with high-bay-warehouse and total 3500m²
Installation of new foil winding machines

Investment in new winding machines with 1000Nm for the expanding department of chokes and filters for drive applications, solar and power quality – projects.
3rd Generations with Johanna und Dominik Reichl joins the management team.

Building a new production hall for control systems and power supplies with 2100m²

New vacuum impregnation system

Implementation of a ERP-system with PPS, BDE and Controlling

Automated wiring unit for wires up to 2,5 mm (3-wire technology)

Installation of bond winding automat (special coils production) processing copper band material up to bis 450 mm width and 2 mm in diameter.

Production capacity in Hebertsfelden again doubled

CNC controlled winding machines installed

Opening of branch office and additional production unit in Czech Republic.

Computer controlled single testing units provide further quality improvements for transformers.

Quality system according to DIN ISO 9001 and EN 29001 standards certified.

introduction of UL insolation systems for transformers and transducers, Class B, file E181051.

Production start for large coils (?700 mm and 1400 mm of length, torque up to 300 Nm).

Automatic production of coils up to ?1.6 mm of wire.

First water-cooled transformer

Production centers for ?1,2 mm wires (4-wire technology)

Fully automated vacuum sealing unit installed

Vacuum sealing machine is installed

New building to avoid further capacity bottlenecks

First PC based software for transformer construction is installed

Privately owned company transferred to Schmidbauer Ltd.

New 3-storey warehouse erected

New building and production start of transformers for slide projectors

Introduction of a lacquer dipping system for transformers