If you have ever unlocked a car door using a remote car key, you were like­ly using a piece of elec­tron­ics that was processed on a machine from SCHUNK Elec­tron­ic Solu­tions. The plant in St. Geor­gen man­u­fac­tures depan­el­ing machines that divide print­ed cir­cuit boards with tenth-of-a-mil­lime­ter pre­ci­sion and then feed them into the down­stream process chain by means of a grip­per sys­tem. Due to lin­ear motor dri­ves devel­oped and pro­duced in-house, the depan­el­ing machines are so fast and pre­cise that cus­tomers all over the world are using these machines from the Black For­est. “Our focus here at the site is obvi­ous­ly the elec­tron­ics and auto­mo­tive sup­ply indus­tries,” says Jochen Ehmer, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the site.

“We‘ve achieved good growth here.“

Jochen Ehmer, Direc­tor of SCHUNK Men­gen Elec­tron­ic Solu­tions St. Geor­gen

The name – SCHUNK Elec­tron­ics Solu­tions – bears wit­ness to the her­itage of the site, which was for­mer­ly home to the “Gesellschaft für Antrieb und Steuerung­stech­nik”. In the mean­time, it has become part of the SCHUNK group of com­pa­nies. After two moves with­in the town, the area cov­ered by the plant has now dou­bled. 170 peo­ple work across 8,400 square meters – in 2008, when SCHUNK start­ed oper­a­tions there, there were just 40. “We’ve achieved good growth here,” says Ehmer.

SCHUNK Elec­tron­ics Solu­tions is well-known and respect­ed local­ly, and coop­er­a­tion with schools and uni­ver­si­ties in the area ensures an influx of tal­ent­ed young peo­ple. Eight young peo­ple start­ed train­ing at the site in Sep­tem­ber 2022.