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Company portrait



1837
  • foundation by Johann Heinrich Schmidt
  • registration in the trade roll of the municipal council Wurzen
  • manufacture of bucket elevators for mills

1886
  • take-over of the company by son Heinrich August Schmidt
  • sale of buckets and bucket elevators Europe-wide

1889
  • purchase of a larger site and construction of a new factory building
  • additional manufacture of conveyor worms and belt conveyors

1900
  • development of new hoisting/conveying devices such as chain conveyors, inclined lifts, aerial ropeways and storage basins
  • beginning of the chain-and-bucket excavator production

1908
  • construction of an assembly shop for the highly expanded excavator/dredger construction

1914
  • the company was taken over by a relative, Mr. Paul Schulz, engineer

1920
  • first equipment for municipal sewerage systems
  • production of dredge devices

1939
  • Paul Schulz died
  • take-over of the company by his two sons Paul and Ernst Schulz

1972
  • compulsory nationalisation

1990
  • re-privatisation
  • setting up of the H. Aug. Schmidt Transportanlagen GmbH
  • management: Mr. Frank Schulz