New prod­uctsEvery­thing is elec­tric

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.