schulz

Schulz Compressores is the largest manufacturer of air compressors in Latin America. It is a genuine Brazilian company in Santa Catarina, with head quarter in Joinville (SC). Like other large organizations which began in a simple and family way, Schulz started its  history 50 years ago with only 26 coworkers and limited resources. On June 12th, 1963, Heinz Schulz invited a group of friends and entrepreneurs to found Metalúrgica Schulz.

The partners included the entrepreneurs Ronald Braatz, Herbert Theilacker, Norberto Ritzmann, Guilherme Urban, his son Gert H. Schulz and Ovandi Rosenstock, current CEO, who were part of the start group and have taken part since the start of this success story. At the time of the foundation, the youngest son of Heinz, Waldir Carlos Schulz, was 13 years old. Currently he is the Chairperson of Board of Directors and Vice CEO.

The  market vision of this group of visionaries would take the small metallurgical company Schulz to a line of manual fastening, tightening and cutting tools. The bench vise was its first product for mechanical purposes.

Attentive to the market, in 1972, Schulz was in search of new product lines with potential for growth and resolved to dedicate itself to the development of alternative piston compressors. It started with two small models, of ½ and 1 hp, and it did not take long to start in quest of models of greater capacity.

Ten years later, in 1982, Schulz attained the absolute leadership in the Brazilian market of piston air compressors. The success and quality of its products led to the opening of the foreign market the following year. Thereby, in 1985, the company gained leadership in Latin America. Moved by the constant search for evolution it became, also at the end of the decade, the first Brazilian company to develop rotary screw compressors with its own engineering.

In the 90’s the company underwent intense growth. One of the great advances was the acquisition of the shareholding control of its greatest competitor in alternative piston compressors, Tecnomecânica S.A., belonging to the Dresser Group, holder of the  brand  Wayne. Linked to this, in 1994, Schulz opened the capital and made another leap in growth with the impressive mark of 1 million compressors produced and sold. In 1999, it consolidated its North American market share, with the creation of Schulz of America Inc., another important step towards its global performance.

Today, Schulz is acknowledged as one of the most complete factories of air compressors in the world, offering the market a full line in the generation, treatment and storage of  compressed air. Besides the alternative piston, diaphragm and screw compressors of 5 up to 250 hp, it has refrigerated and adsorption air dryers, line filters, coalescence filters, condensate separators, pneumatic tools, electrical tools and accessories for residential, professional and industrial applications.

Currently, the products of Schulz are present in more than 70 countries, being a global supplier of solutions for compressed air and equipment for household to industrial use, which reinforces the tradition and high technological standard of its products.