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PRODUCTION
A centre of excellence for
SCHERDEL plant in Myjava manufactures complex
art technical equipment
PRODUCTION PROCESSES – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – NEWS AND INFORMATION Contact O nce viewed as an extended work- Bratislava, the home of the automotive
C.E.P. Scherdel Pružiny, bench for labour-intensive ser- industry in Slovakia. Since there had
spol. s.r.o. vices, the SCHERDEL location C.E.P. been a factory producing instruments in
Javorinskà 1200/4 Pružiny s.r.o. in Myjava has become a Myjava until the turn of the millennium,
90701 Myjava much valued supplier of components the small town with about 12,000 resi-
Slovak Republic and assemblies for seats and backrests dents was already home to an unusual-
Tel.: +421 34 6946-701 in passenger cars, commercial vehi- ly high number of skilled workers. Yet
Fax: +421 34 6946-711 cles, coaches and trains. The product another reason for SCHERDEL to open
Plant Manager range includes rear seat frames, posi- a new plant there in 2001 and to close
tioning wires, assembly parts, stamp- its previous manufacturing location in
Robert Sasák ings and shaped components. Even Brezova, which had been founded in
Tel.: +421 34 6946-701 though cooperation with the main plant 1992. After a number of redevelopment
Email: robert.sasak@ in Marienberg still plays a major role for projects in recent years, the four work-
cep.scherdel.sk the manufacturing location in Slovakia, shops now offer roughly 5,500 square
Sales Manager more and more customer projects are metres of dedicated production and lo-
being solved “in-house” so to speak. Af- gistics space. A steep upward trend
ter all, the Myjava plant has, in the has been firmly established at the loca-
meantime, managed to secure a well- tion with consistent growth and an
trained workforce of roughly 200 staff above-average rise in sales of approxi-
and boasts CNC bending equipment mately 10% over the past years. See-
and its own tool and jig making shop. ing as all the signs point to further
The technical equipment also includes growth, SCHERDEL decided to acquire
systems for high-quality welding pro- an adjacent piece of empty land of
duction. The company therefore has the 10,000 square metres for any required
ability to offer a “one source solution” – expansion of the existing premises.
from development and prototype build
to the manufacture of required tools In the field of bending technology, the
and volume production – in order to de- location’s manufacturing skills include
liver customer orders efficiently. the manufacture of torsion bar spring,
shaped wire parts and strip compo-
The SCHERDEL plant is not far from nents. Fully automatic robot units carry
Dipl. Ing. Martin Cervenka
Tel.: +421 34 6946-708
Email: martin.cervenka@
scherdel.com
State-of-the-art manufacturing
engineering is also utilised at
10 SCHERDEL’s Slovakian loca-
tion in Myjava.
