Schmidtsche Schack
German manufacturing company
Schmidtsche Schack - ARVOS is a German enterprise with headquarters and fabrication facilities in Kassel. The company also operates a branch office in Düsseldorf and has affiliated units in the US, Japan, and Singapore.
It originates from Schmidt’sche Heissdampf-Gesellschaft mbH, which was founded by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1910. The firm belongs to the ARVOS Group and is a world leader in process gas cooling systems for the chemical, petrochemical, and metallurgical industries. In the fiscal year 2018, the sales figure amounted to approximately 335 million euros.
History
Company history in the 19th century
In 1880, before the company Schmidt’sche Heissdampf-Gesellschaft was founded, the engineer Wilhelm Schmidt had begun developing steam engines. In 1887 he sold the first patented licence for a hot steamship engine to the German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss in Hamburg. Three years later, businesses with patented licences for hot steam technology began to flourish. In 1895, Wilhelm Schmidt acquired the majority share of Ascherslebener Maschinenfabrik, which was converted into a joint stock company in 1898, of which Schmidt took over a mandate in the supervisory board. The first two hot steam locomotives equipped with the Schmidt’sche superheater system were delivered to the Preußische Eisenbahngesellschaft (German railway company) via Vulkan AG Stettin, and Henschel & Son in Kassel.
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