A unique opportunity that arose by chance.
Some phone calls are a daily routine - not so on 1 July 2022. How often do you get offered an entire company that has a good name and is also close to your own head office? "At first, I didn't know what to say when I heard from an employee that there was a company that stood for constructive metal construction and that had got into difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis and was now on the verge of opening insolvency proceedings - and whether I might be interested in taking over the company," recalls Georgine Scheidt, Managing Director of SCHEIDT. "That made me sit up and take notice!"
Race against time.
A decision had to be made by the beginning of August 2022 at the latest. The opinion of the father, Michael Scheidt, was immediately sought as an experienced consultant on the idea and the experts from TEAM SCHEIDT were consulted. After all, their knowledge is an absolute prerequisite when developing your own doors and ventilation elements. It was therefore clear that only if they were just as convinced of the project as the management would it make sense to hold realistic talks about the takeover. Immediately after the clear decision to take over the other company, SCHEIDT did everything it could to fulfil the formal obligations and steps at record speed between mid-August and 1 September 2022 by obtaining the necessary documents and drawing up all the contracts.
Doors and ventilation grilles for transformer stations rethought.
As with every new development and technical advancement, the right answers had to be found to numerous questions. A challenge for the SCHEIDT and SMA tech experts. The first prototypes with aluminium doors were built back in November 2022, and technical development has been continuously optimised ever since, focusing on what has always guided the company: the future. Doors for compact stations have been in series production since February 2023.
Qualitative and economic advantages for customers.
The new technical generation of doors comes with convincing arguments: it is material-efficient by saving on ventilation and is therefore also ecologically responsible. It is of high quality and durable thanks to the use of aluminium instead of steel. Specific details with well thought-out modifications to the door hinges make it possible to have the station doors tested in resistance classes RC2 and later RC3 for burglary resistance.
Test passed at the IPH Institute "Testing Centre for High-Performance Electrical Engineering".
The new development was successfully tested on 11 May 2023. The positive results underline SCHEIDT's claim to have developed the most material-efficient, high-quality and durable technical door with/without ventilation currently available on the market.
Dimension Future with SCHEIDT: Employees of the newly founded SMA Tech GmbH & Co. KG (Scheidt Metall & Anlagentechnik).
