History
Today
the Schätti family is active entrepreneurially in Schwanden in the fourth generation for over 90 years and employs 100 highly qualified employees. Schätti AG Metal Goods Factory develops and produces, in close collaboration with its customers, assembled or sale-ready assemblies and electrical devices. Schätti supplies customers in Switzerland and throughout Europe. Together with its customers, Schätti sustainably and purposefully converts innovative ideas into successful products.
2025
Capacity expansion in sheet metal processing: Trumatic 6000 is replaced by Trumatic 7000, automatic sheet storage is expanded, and an automated bending line ensures the correct shape around the clock.
Company continuity: Expansion of the management team with Michael Walcher, Head of Technology (CTO).
With Nic Schätti, the fourth generation is joining the company.
2020
Schätti expands its capacity in sheet metal processing with an automatic sheet storage system and a second laser punching system.
2017
A derelict industrial site is being revived.
Schätti is taking over the second location in Schwanden. The electrical devices assembly department is moving into the former Therma halls.
Parts of the previously unused Therma site are being put back into active use. New investments, modernization, and new jobs are being created.
2012
2011
Schätti buys the small espresso machine manufacturer Olympia Express and integrates it into its manufacturing.

2006
2005
Schätti Bulgaria EOOD takes up its activities. Nowadays it is an independent partner company of Schätti, Glatec EOOD.


1991
At the beginning of the 1990s, the third generation, the three brothers and engineers Jos, Thomas and Stefan Schätti, join the executive management. In 1991 the company has 56 employees.
1996 Relocation to the luminous production extension building.
Fridolin Walcher photographs all employees. The pictures are shown in the exhibition "Betriebskultur".


1981
The company becomes a family-owned limited company and employs 44 people.
Schätti is a pioneer in Switzerland in the field of robot welding: welding robots are used at Schätti since 1983.
In 1986, in a new three floor building, the powder coating department is established.

1969
Josef Schätti-de Jong and his wife Francisca take over the company on 1 January 1969. They concentrate on the production of furniture fittings. The company employs 10 people.

1934
Josef Schätti-Zopfi, born 1903, founds an installation business for central heating in Schwanden, the hometown of his wife Anna. In the 1940s the production of metal goods and mechanics for construction and furniture starts. In 1948 the company employs four people.


