From left to right: managing director of the Industry Division, Frank Klingemann with the site manager and global automation director, Benjamin Fürst. Photo: Schuler

Hermann Schleicher, who passed away in 2005, and will always be remembered for developing pneumatic gripper feeds, started the business 60 years ago in a small garage in Erlangen, where he founded the machine factory named after him. In 1990, his company joined Schuler, and today, as well as producing transfer systems for presses, also manufactures ‘state of the art’ coil lines and laser blanking lines at the Louis-Schuler-Strasse in Heßdorf. Around 250 employees celebrated the milestone anniversary with a big party at then end of last month.

Frank Klingemann, managing director of the Industry Division, said: Schuler can look back on a long tradition in Hessdorf. The coil lines, transfers, and blanking lines also continue to provide our customers around the world with increased output, efficiency, and flexibility.”

Site manager Benjamin Fürst added: “My big thanks go to all our employees, whose years of tireless dedication we have to thank for this. Our coil lines and transfers really make a press productive; and with our laser blanking lines, we have shown that blanks can even be cut without expensive and heavy dies.”