Success story

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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..

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.

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.

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

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.

Joint venture in China for the production of valve springs. Construction of a new plant in Bor, Czech Republic.

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.

Start of production in Sorocaba, Brazil.

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

Completion of the plant in Myjava, Slovakia.

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.

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.

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.

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., LTD.

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.

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.

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

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

Opening of the new plant in Kaluga, Russia.

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

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

Our company celebrates its 125-year success story.

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

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