COMPANY > History
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1967 |
Andreas Scherer, Georg Scherer and Lothar Trier founded the company in downtown Michelau. The extruded profiles were primarily oriented toward the local basket and small furniture industry. |
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| 1971 |
The company received the first order from the automotive industry. |
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| 1979 |
The company moved its location in the new business park in Michelau in Oberfranken. It creates a new administration building and a larger production hall for extrusion technology. |
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| 1984 |
The company expanded the production line by using the injection molding technique. |
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| 1988 |
It arise a research & development center including new CNC machinery in order to make our own tools and samples. |
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| 1993 |
Lothar Trier got General Manager and owner. The name of the company remained with „Kunststoff-Technik Scherer & Trier“. |
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| 1998 |
The company expanded its warehousing capacity by building a new logistics center. |
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| 2000 |
The company starts its globalization. |
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| 2001 |
In Goteborg/ Schweden established another foreign location with the KUNSTSTOFF-TECHNIK SCANDINAVIA AB. |
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| 2002 |
In Michelau in Oberfranken, the production rage is extended by the founding of the state of the art painting plan. |
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| 2005 |
The new subsidiary KUNSTSTOFF-TECHNIK SCHERER & TRIER USA INC. based in Saline/ USA. |
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| 2008 | The area of logistics is expend by building a 3.000 sqm factory floor to deliver "just-in-sequence". |
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| 2010 | After the death of founder Lothar Trier his sons Dr. Hartmut Trier and Martin Trier continue the family-owned enterprise. |
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| 2015 | In February occurred the takeover of the business of Scherer& Trier by the Indian Samvardhana Motherson Group. |
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