Company - Who we are

As a medium-sized family run company, schäfer-technic gmbh can look back on a long business tradition. Founded as a forge in 1898, our focus has shifted over time. For more than 40 years we have been producing road maintenance and road repair machinery as well as automotive manufacturing machinery in Fellbach. At the same time, we develop our own control engineering and offer services covering all aspects of our product range.

Our main focus is on bitumen processing machinery and units that offer high performance and exceptional processing quality.
Thanks to our close contact with customers, suppliers and bitumen producers, schäfer-technic machinery is always state of the art.

A professional team of over 80 employees ensures a smooth process in project planning, design and production, continuing to sales and after sales service. Every year, we offer apprenticeships in commercial and business management fields, which means we are ideally equipped to face future challenges.

Our stated aims are to extend and expand our long-standing cooperation with our customers and suppliers on a trusting and productive basis. We see quality, reliability and always being willing to listen as absolutely essential.

We look forward to helping you with your tasks.

Trade associations

The only thing that’s constant is change. That is why we are active in a variety of national and international trade associations and sit on numerous committees. For example, we participate in creating new directives and guidelines.

The trade associations benefit from our decades of experience and our customers get machine concepts that are more relevant to their day-to-day work.

Professional association FBK (formerly AKB and FBS)
https://www.fachverband-fbk.de/

German asphalt association
https://www.asphalt.de

FGSV - Road and transport research association
https://www.fgsv.de

ISSA - International Slurry Surfacing Association
https://www.slurry.org/

RSTA - Road Surface Treatment Association
https://www.rsta-uk.org/

Social Involvement

Community involvement is really important to us:
schäfer-technic regularly supports a number of regional organisations.

These include:
 

Company history

1898
Johannes Schäfer founds the company Schäfer in Fellbach as a forge for horseshoes and agricultural products.

1927
Karl Schäfer takes over management of the company.

1953
Robert Schäfer takes the first steps into machine manufacture and expands the area of business with the production of steel trailers for agriculture and equipment for the construction industry.

1961
Space gets tight. We move to the new premises on Friedrich-List-Straße in Fellbach.

1983
Demand for road repair vehicles grows. In cooperation with the company Lothar Schäfer, Schäfer machinery becomes a byword for quality domestically and internationally.

1988
New blood: Karl-Heinz and Roland Schäfer take over the company, bringing new ideas and techniques.

1998
Three figures! We celebrate our company’s 100th anniversary.

2001
Sales activities of Lothar Schäfer GbR are incorporated into Karl Schäfer GmbH.

2002
Short distances - the new schäfer-technic gmbh means that sales, design, production and service now all come from a single source. Customer requirements can be dealt with faster and more effectively.

2002
We strengthen our technical and commercial know-how as Joachim Wesner joins the company.

2008
Sales and financial accounting acquire new premises at Friedrich-List-Straße 41.

2014
Quality assurance: Our quality management system is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001.

2019
Jens Schäfer becomes a director, marking the 5th generation of the product-focused family company.