With more than 125 years of production expertise, the top-flight employees at our plants in Mengen manufacture roughly five million parts a day for more than 2,000 customers around the world. With our wide range of production technologies which include punching, cutting, waterjet & laser cutting, we can manufacture your parts flexibly and economically. Our success is the outcome of effective teamwork, continuous innovation and strict focus on customer needs coupled with specialist technical expertise.
As a financially robust company with sound sustainable credentials, we believe that must never rest on our laurels, and should instead always view changes and challenges as opportunities.
This year, Schlösser in Mengen is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and it continues to expand. This involves more than an expansion in storage surface area. We are also seeking to recruit new team members.
MENGEN – Schlösser is one of the leading manufacturers of seals and technical parts. These versatile products are used in a great many sectors including the automotive industry or in household & electrical appliances. Today, our product range includes more than 15,000 items made from more than 2,000 different materials. To manufacture the 5 million or so products every day, we use a range of different production technologies, including punching, cutting, waterjet & laser cutting. We manufacture the punching and cutting tools we need in our in-house toolmaking shop.
As shown on this animation, a new incoming goods area and additional storage space is being created here.
2021
Founding year
CARL SCHLÖSSER founds a company for the design & manufacture of fittings.
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employees
With a team of more than 350 employees, we pride ourselves on a corporate structure with quick decision-making paths and sustainable corporate development.
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Production facilities
25,800 m2 of production and storage surface area constitute the physical premises for the expertise delivered by Schlösser.
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parts every working day
Today, production output represents about 5 million parts each working day.
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active parts
Today, the product range encompasses more than 15,000 items made from a diverse range of materials.
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different materials
With our comprehensive portfolio of different materials, we can always find the right solution for you.
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customers worldwide
The work we do always focuses on our customers and their requirements. This is what makes us such a dependable partner right around the globe.
SCHLÖSSER is absolutely the leading service provider for bespoke solutions, often involving a high level of innovation (mobility, engineering, electrical engineering etc.). We delight customers with our specialist product solutions backed by comprehensive service support. Superlative made-to-measure product solutions can be created through close partnership with our customers. SCHLÖSSER is best known for functional reliability, safety, dependability, close links with its customers and for ‘good solid work’. The extra services we provide also deliver genuine added value: e.g. enhanced technical cleanliness, processes for cutting to size, fabrication, mechanical or visual inspection etc.
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The secret of our success is not based on materials and systems. Instead, it is founded far more on the individual capabilities of our highly skilled and motivated employees. This is why you are centre-stage in all that we do!
In the two plants at our Mengen site, a family atmosphere combines the expert knowledge and many years of experience of more than 300 employees. We provide our employees with a wide-ranging and challenging range of tasks that enable them to work independently and to be responsible for their own work. We value expertise and we promote skills and aptitudes – to safeguard job security and enduring success into the future.
On a daily basis, with our technical parts and our expertise, we help to shape the trends of tomorrow within our sector.
Our success is the outcome of effective teamwork, continuous innovation, stringent focus on customer needs married to our highly professional technical expertise.
As a financially robust company with sound sustainable credentials, we believe that must never rest on our laurels, and should instead always view changes and challenges as opportunities.
More than 100 years ago, when Carl Schlösser founded the company, submitting his first patents for gas fittings, he was already manufacturing his own seals for those fittings. Even back then, Schlösser was constantly striving to find the ideal solution. An aspiration that runs throughout the history of the company like a golden thread. Today, there is scarcely a single sector in which Schlösser is not represented with a range of highly specialist products. That expertise has a solid foundation. It is the outcome of many years of experience, continuous innovation, strict customer focus and stringent quality management. And it is the consequence of a conviction never to rest on past achievements but instead always to view new customer requirements as a challenge and an opportunity.
125 years of SCHLÖSSER
In 2022, SCHLÖSSER celebrated its 125th anniversary in Mengen and is still continuing to expand. A fourth section of building is under construction. The storage area has been enlarged substantially and a new incoming goods area is being built. This will greatly improve logistical operations, creating approximately 3,800 m² of additional surface area.
Building section 3
In July 2018, Schlösser opened this 8,250 m² expansion to Plant II. This expansion in production surface area, with particular attention being paid to the increasingly stringent requirements of customers in relation to the technical cleanliness of products, and through the enlargement of the materials storage area, Schlösser is now well prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
Expansion of production surface area with an innovative new building
SCHLÖSSER opens its new Plant II in Mengen, with a surface area of 8,250 m². This expansion in production surface area, with particular attention being paid to the increasingly stringent requirements of customers in relation to the technical cleanliness of products, and through the enlargement of the materials storage area, Schlösser is now well prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
Rotary punching
Rotary punching is being introduced as a new production technology.
Laser cutting
Laser cutting is being introduced as a new production technology.
Certification
SCHLÖSSER succeeds in obtaining certification for the ISO 14001 environmental standard.
Introduction of SAP
SCHLÖSSER has been working with SAP since early 2004.
Certification
SCHLÖSSER becomes one of the first companies in its sector to obtain certification for the ISO TS 16949 and DIN ISO 9001:2000 standards.
Expansion of production surface area
To tap into new areas of potential development, SCHLÖSSER expands its production surface area with an innovative new building.
Centenary celebration for the company
SCHLÖSSER celebrates its 100th anniversary as a company. The executive management team takes this anniversary and its successful track record as an opportunity to invest more in the future.
Waterjet cutting
Waterjet cutting is introduced as another production technology.
Expansion of executive management
Reinhard Adams is appointed as another director of SCHLÖSSER.
Manfred Bok becomes CEO
Manfred Bok, the nephew of the company founder, steps into the shoes of his grandfather. The company develops further, becoming one of the best-known manufacturers of seals and punched parts.
In-house tool-making
An in-house tool-making shop is established. As the years go by, SCHLÖSSER grows into a well-known major player for industry and trade.
Emmy Bok shoulders the legacy
Company founder CARL SCHLÖSSER dies, and is succeeded by his daughter Emmy Bok, who has just turned 30. By now, the company has specialised entirely on the manufacture of seals.
Relocation of the registered office to Mengen
Just before the millennium, CARL SCHLÖSSER moves its registered office to Mengen, a town in Upper Swabia.
Expansion of the business segment
CARL SCHLÖSSER starts to produce seals from materials such as leather, vulcanised fibre and rubber. After the First World War, in addition to production for the company’s own products, it also began manufacturing seals for the emergent industrial sector.
Receives patents
CARL SCHLÖSSER receives various German as well as international patents for his inventions.
Founding by CARL SCHLÖSSER
At this time, CARL SCHLÖSSER recognised that there was great demand for safety fittings for gas supply and gas lighting. After founding his company, he began to design and manufacture these fittings himself.
125 years of SCHLÖSSER
In 2022, SCHLÖSSER celebrated its 125th anniversary in Mengen and is still continuing to expand. A fourth section of building is under construction. The storage area has been enlarged substantially and a new incoming goods area is being built. This will greatly improve logistical operations, creating approximately 3,800 m² of additional surface area.
Building section 3
In July 2018, Schlösser opened this 8,250 m² expansion to Plant II. This expansion in production surface area, with particular attention being paid to the increasingly stringent requirements of customers in relation to the technical cleanliness of products, and through the enlargement of the materials storage area, Schlösser is now well prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
Expansion of production surface area with an innovative new building
SCHLÖSSER opens its new Plant II in Mengen, with a surface area of 8,250 m². This expansion in production surface area, with particular attention being paid to the increasingly stringent requirements of customers in relation to the technical cleanliness of products, and through the enlargement of the materials storage area, Schlösser is now well prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
Rotary punching
Rotary punching is being introduced as a new production technology.
Laser cutting
Laser cutting is being introduced as a new production technology.
Certification
SCHLÖSSER succeeds in obtaining certification for the ISO 14001 environmental standard.
Introduction of SAP
SCHLÖSSER has been working with SAP since early 2004.
Certification
SCHLÖSSER becomes one of the first companies in its sector to obtain certification for the ISO TS 16949 and DIN ISO 9001:2000 standards.
Expansion of production surface area
To tap into new areas of potential development, SCHLÖSSER expands its production surface area with an innovative new building.
Centenary celebration for the company
SCHLÖSSER celebrates its 100th anniversary as a company. The executive management team takes this anniversary and its successful track record as an opportunity to invest more in the future.
Waterjet cutting
Waterjet cutting is introduced as another production technology.
Expansion of the business segment
Reinhard Adams is appointed as another director of SCHLÖSSER.
Manfred Bok becomes CEO
Manfred Bok, the nephew of the company founder, steps into the shoes of his grandfather. The company develops further, becoming one of the best-known manufacturers of seals and punched parts.
In-house tool-making
An in-house tool-making shop is established. As the years go by, SCHLÖSSER grows into a well-known major player for industry and trade.
Emmy Bok shoulders the legacy
Company founder CARL SCHLÖSSER dies, and is succeeded by his daughter Emmy Bok, who has just turned 30. By now, the company has specialised entirely on the manufacture of seals.
Relocation of the registered office to Mengen
Just before the millennium, CARL SCHLÖSSER moves its registered office to Mengen, a town in Upper Swabia.
Expansion of the business segment
CARL SCHLÖSSER starts to produce seals from materials such as leather, vulcanised fibre and rubber. After the First World War, in addition to production for the company’s own products, it also began manufacturing seals for the emergent industrial sector.
Receives patents
CARL SCHLÖSSER receives various German as well as international patents for his inventions.
Founding by CARL SCHLÖSSER
At this time, CARL SCHLÖSSER recognised that there was great demand for safety fittings for gas supply and gas lighting. After founding his company, he began to design and manufacture these fittings himself.
We based and certified our management system on IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards. Our management system is described and defined in a manual. This and also all existing legislation and regulations are binding upon all employees.
Certificates in the download area