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| OUR HISTORY |
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| SCHMALEDURATE
– Reliable for over 70 years |
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| The beginnings: The
family business Schmale was established in 1936.
The company initially traded in sewing machines
in Germany's traditional textile region of the Münsterland. |
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| The first developments
of our own: Shortly after starting up as a trade
company, Schmale began to modify the commercially
available sewing machines in order to meet the growing
requirements for commercial applications. These
various conversions and expansions quickly caught
on in the market and Schmale consequently also became
a licenser for the prestigious sewing machine manufacturer
Union Special, amongst others. |
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| Breakthrough as a specialist
for the textile manufacturing industry: The
start signal for the automation of home textile
manufacturing, which had been characterized by manual
work until then, soon followed with the development
of the very first longitudinal hemming machine –
the legendary A1. Based on this original model,
further production stages such as, for example,
longitudinal slitting were automated over the years
one by one. In parallel, the distribution spread
further and further beyond Germany's borders, first
into Europe and then all around the globe. |
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| Developing into a high-tech
company: The greatest leaps forward in automation
were achieved in the 1980s by the growing performance
capacities of microelectronics. Ever more complex
processes could now be automated. More and more
sub-processes were integrated in one installation.
Meanwhile the company, now managed by Carl Schmale
junior, developed at the same breakneck speed as
the technology. The machine range was augmented
by numerous fully and semi-automatic machines and
soon emcompassed the entire manufacturing process.
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| Maturing into a total
solution provider: Starting in the 1990s, the
development focus shifted to fully automated, computer-controlled
appliances whose productivity was continually enhanced.
Once folding machines had also been integrated,
the product range encompassed the entire manufacturing
process. Schmale has begun the new millennium with
the successful completion of a particularly ambitious
project: the development of a complete range of
fully automated production lines for bed linen manufacturers.
Ever since the successful market introduction of
these installations, SCHMALEDURATE truly offers
total solutions for all types of home textiles,
all from one source. |
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| But one aspect has never
changed in the company's 80-year history: top quality
always has been and still remains our top priority.
Then, as now, the design of all our installations
is therefore aimed at ensuring outstanding reliability.
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