Schroff is a German manufacturer of electrical and electronic cabinets, housings devices and associated components. Its products include cabinets, housings, chassis and related components for multiple markets such as telecommunications, data centers and traffic management. Schroff was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in

Straubenhardt Straubenhardt is a municipality in the Enz district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 21 km southeast of Karlsruhe, and 14 km west of Pforzheim. Municipality arrangement The municipality Straubenhardt consists of the for ...

near Pforzheim. It has been part of the Irish registered company ''nVent'' since 2018 after its previous owner British

Pentair Pentair plc (PNR) is an American water treatment company incorporated in Ireland with tax residency in UK, with its main U.S. office in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Golden Valley, Minnesota. Pentair was founded in the US, with 65% of company's reve ...

was split into two companies. nVent employs 9,000 people worldwide of which about 1,500 are part of the Schroff brand. The company operates in accordance with the

ISO 9001 The ISO 9000 family is a set of international standards for quality management systems. It was developed in March 1987 by International Organization for Standardization. The goal of these standards is to help organizations ensure that they meet ...

standards and is certified to OHSAS 18001. and ISO 14001 Schroff is one of the largest employers in the Karlsruhe/Pforzheim region.

History

Schroff was founded in 1962 by Gunther Schroff. In the early years Schroff only manufactured power supplies. By the mid-1960s the Schroff Europac Rack was the main product of the 19 inch division. Rapid acceptance of Schroff electronic housing products in the major electronics markets of the U.S. and Japan made Schroff the standard for electronic design. Through its participation in international standardization groups such as the IEC, Schroff pioneer of

19-inch rack A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide. The 19 inch dimension includes the edges or ''ears'' that protrude from each side of the ...

s, and also for the standard dimensions of the rack unit (RU) and division unit (TE). Schroff was part of British conglomerate

from 1994 until 2018. On April 30, 2018 Pentair split into two companies, and Schroff became part of the British nVent company.

Locations

The main work of the Straubenhardt facility is administration, development, metal processing, special tool manufacture, painting, plating, the manufacture and assembly of electronics components. In addition to production in Straubenhardt, Schroff has other production facilities in France and Poland as well as sales and integration centers worldwide.

Production

As of June 2018

Sales and Integration Centers

*Schroff UK Ltd. in England *Schroff Scandinavia AB in Sweden and

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

*Schroff S.R.L. in Italy *Schroff GmbH/S.p.z.o.o. in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

*Hoffman Schroff Pte. Ltd. in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

*Schroff K.K. in

Yokohama is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a popu ...

, Japan. Other manufacturing and solution centers owned by

in the United States, Mexico,

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

, China, India and

Products

Schroff, creates cabinets, cases and racks for industries including

telecommunications Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...

, data and

network Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

technology,

defense Defense or defence may refer to: Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups * Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare * Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with emergencies or enemy attacks * Defense industr ...

technology, aviation,

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

, and

traffic Traffic is the movement of vehicles and pedestrians along land routes. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic laws and informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly an ...

technology. Products include: * Industrial, electronic, networking, and server cabinets for indoor and outdoor applications * 19" table and tower cases, 19" racks, and enclosures, wall cases * Front panels, plug-in modules, subracks and printed circuit boards * Power supplies for measurement and control technology * Climate control such as 19" fan trays, 19" blowers, filtered fans, heaters,

heat exchanger A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes. The fluids may be separated by a solid wall to prevent mixing or they may be in direct contac ...

s, cooling devices * Racks and systems such as

AdvancedTCA Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA or AdvancedTCA) is the largest specification effort in the history of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedTC ...

AdvancedMC Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG). Known as AdvancedMC or AMC, the official specification designation is AMC.''x''. Originally AMC wa ...

MicroTCA MicroTCA (short for ''Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture'', also: μTCA) is a modular, open standard, created and maintained by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). It provides the electrical, mechanical, thermal an ...

CompactPCI CompactPCI is a computer bus interconnect for industrial computers, combining a Eurocard-type connector and PCI signaling and protocols. Boards are standardized to 3 U or 6U sizes, and are typically interconnected via a passive backplane. The ...

VMEbus VMEbus (Versa Module Eurocard bus) is a computer bus standard physically based on Eurocard sizes. History In 1979, during development of the Motorola 68000 CPU, one of their engineers, Jack Kister, decided to set about creating a standar ...

, VME64x bus and

disk drive Disc or disk may refer to: * Disk (mathematics), a two dimensional shape, the interior of a circle * Disk storage * Optical disc * Floppy disk Music * Disc (band), an American experimental music band * ''Disk'' (album), a 1995 EP by Moby Other ...

units *

Backplanes A backplane or backplane system is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. It is used to connect sev ...

, test adapters, and power strips for electronics industry

References