TOP 100 Award officially handed over to Schmidt & Heinzmann
Recently, the TOP 100 Innovation Awards were presented at the German SME Summit in Augsburg. The award ceremony honors all medium-sized companies that received the TOP 100 seal at the beginning of the year. In the competition, which was held for the 30th time, Schmidt & Heinzmann particularly impressed in the category “External Orientation / Open Innovation”
The TOP 100 company portrait published on the occasion of the award states (excerpt): Schmidt & Heinzmann manufactures innovative, customized production systems and automation solutions for the fiber-reinforced plastics industry. CEO Matthias Feil and is approximately 100 employees are not the only ones to decide where the company will go in the future.
“The customer defines the innovation, not us. Only he can decide whether a new product will bring him an advantage or a sustainable improvement,” says Feil. That’s why we involve users with easy-to-use digital surveys. In this way, the two-time TOP 100 innovator can better take their focus into account, ensure alignment with needs and meet the requirement of a short time-to-market. Feil accepts the fact that he has to show his cards a little when he makes five to six concrete proposals for innovation projects to his customers. Because his goal is a higher one: “We always want to be the best and constantly increase the gap to our competitors.”
About Schmidt & Heinzmann:
Schmidt & Heinzmann has been developing and producing innovative tailor-made production
machinery and automation solutions for the fiber-reinforced plastics industry for more than 50
years. The product portfolio includes:
• Cutting systems for all kind of fibers
• SMC production machinery
• Automated cutting & stacking systems
• Deburring & Trimming Solutions
• Preforming systems for the automated production of textile preforms
• Automation solutions for composite cut and part handling
• Customized special solutions
Headquartered in Bruchsal, Germany, and with offices in the United States and China, Schmidt & Heinzmann generated a turnover of 20 million Euro in 2021 with more than 130 employees.
