160 years of company experience.

Foundation of the company
Martin Schmitt – a construction fitting company

Construction of the first lift system.

First in-house developments in lift construction
Drives, controls, cars, doors. 130 employees.

Supplier to the Royal Court of Bavaria

Renaming of the company Aufzugswerke M. Schmitt & Sohn

300 new systems annual production
Exports to Finland, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Turkey
and Czechoslovakia

Destruction and reconstruction
Gerhart and Karl Schmitt, the development generation – a modern lift company is created.

Production of escalators

Development of the company Schmitt + Sohn Elevadores in Portugal.

The first electronic controls
Schmitt + Sohn – Pioneers of new technologies in lift construction

Development of Swiss Lift Electronic Schweiz
Specialised in the construction of modern electronic controls

Extension of the international market presence
Dr. Johannes Schmitt and Martin Schmitt – Development of
an internationally recognised and strong brand of Schmitt + Sohn,
extension of the international sales organisation

International development
Formation of aninternational development
and production association and new companies in
the former East Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia

Best Design
Award to Schmitt + Sohn Aufzugssysteme of the internationally
renowned iF Product Design Award for outstanding industrial design

First Schmitt + Sohn lift without machinery room  
ISI 2040® – excellent quality lifts without machinery room

Introduction of a standard European ERP communications and
information system

Internationally sustainable jobs are created.

Best Service
Introduction of international Best Service standards.

Best Production
Introduction of international Best Production  standards at all production sites. 
1,360 employees.

Introduction of a new logo that is part of a communicative digitalization process.