1882 - Founding
Max Schorch registered the company MAX SCHORCH & Cie in the commercial register of Moenchengladbach in August. At that time Schorch employed 5 workers.
Historie
Max Schorch registered the company MAX SCHORCH & Cie in the commercial register of Moenchengladbach in August. At that time Schorch employed 5 workers.
Schorch manufactured dynamo machines and arc lamps.
Schorch was awarded a gold medal for the machines and arc lamps exhibited at the World Exhibition in Brussels.
120 employees. Schorch established electrical control centers. In addition a new building with three floors was erected.
Schorch was converted into a public company with a capital of 1.3 million marks. Specialization in machines and their accessories. At that time the construction of three-phase machines begins. The workforce increased to 600.
A large part of the factory burns down. A 140,000 sqm plot of land was qcquired on Breite Str. The construction was delayed due to the beginning of the 1st World War.
The Schorch factory with 62,000 sqm for 2,000 empoyees was completed.
Construction of welding transformers and wire welding machines. Production of welding electrodes with the brand name "Primus".
Schorch merged with Elin from Vienna. This cooperation inevitably ended after the war.
The Schorch factories were almost completeley destroyed in a targeted day attack. In the same year, reconstruction began with 20 Schorch employees. On October 1st, Schorch received limited permission to resume production.
Schorch employed 1,800 people again.
Schorch-Werke AG merged with other well-known electrical companies to form Continental Elektroindustrie.
Start of construction of the transformer test field. Enabeling of test on limit power transformers.
The company has opend a new carpentry workshop for motors and transformers.
Change of name from Schorch elektrische Maschinen und Antriebe GmbH to: ATB Schorch GmbH.
