The SCHMID Group is your daily companion: for instance through smartphones, solar modules or modern energy storages. SCHMID conducts basic research and brings the technologies into mass production. Thus, the company founded in 1864 provides technical progress.
SCHMID masters processes that are used in the most different industrial sectors and builds machines and automation systems perfectly tailored to the requirements. By always entering into new fields of application, three business units developed taking advantage of numerous synergistic effects: Electronics, Photovoltaics and Energy Systems, supported and accompanied by the fourth business unit Customer Service.
Our promise: SCHMID – Expect Solutions.
Innovation and technology are the driving factors for our actions. In more than 150 years of company history, SCHMID has established itself as a technology leader in the market with sound knowledge in numerous processes. Based on our comprehensive and versatile technological expertise, we offer our customers future-oriented system and automation solutions that are perfectly adapted to their production requirements.
The group of companies with its headquarters in Freudenstadt (Germany) employs more than 900 staff members worldwide. Manufacturing sites in Germany, China, Turkey and the USA as well as sales and service locations worldwide ensure our proximity to customers.
Electronics
SCHMID has been an innovative partner to the electronics industry for more than 55 years. Our system and process solutions for the manufacture of printed circuit boards and other electrical components ensure low production costs and increase the efficiency of the final products.
In addition to the wet processes we are specialized in automation and transport systems for the electronics sector. We automate individual machines up to the innovative Smart Factory.
SCHMID further uses the extensive wet process and automation competence for anodizing and chemical milling.
Photovoltaics
As technology leader SCHMID supplies highly efficient equipment for the total value chain of photovoltaics. The product range includes single equipment for wafer, cell and module production as well as turnkey production lines and complete factory solutions. Thin-film manufacturers also place their trust in SCHMID’s technological expertise.
Energy Systems
SCHMID Energy Systems develops, produces and distributes stationary energy storage systems based on the powerful Vanadium Redox Flow Technology. The EverFlow® product family includes compact storage solutions for home-based applications, telecom storage facilities as backup for grid-dependent or grid-independent telecommunication towers, battery containers for businesses and industry as well as large storages for energy suppliers.
Customer Service
More than 100 service technicians spread over 17 service locations worldwide guarantee fast and comprehensive services to our customers. The business unit Customer Service offers maintenance contracts, after sales, customer training as well as on-site services. Spare parts and logistics are also part of their service portfolio, as are modernizations that keep your machines up-to-date and cost-efficient.