Complete Product Catalog - Norman Equipment Co.

ABOUT SCHMERSAL
K.A. SCHMERSAL GmbH & Co. was founded as a family
business in 1945. The firm initially focused on the design
and manufacture of electromechanical switches for
industrial applications.
Our first products included heavy-duty, cast-encapsulated
limit switches for (post-war) civil engineering and construction
applications. This program quickly expanded to
include:
• grey cast iron limit switches
• light metal limit switches
• robust precision limit switches
• spindle limit switches
• gear motor switches
• elevator switch gears
• CENELEC position switches
• miniature snap-acting switches, and
• command devices for machine and crane control
systems.
With this early post-war product program, the firm quickly
established itself as a specialist in monitoring, switching,
and controlling elevators, material handling systems,
machine tools, and other industrial equipment.
Many of these initial products satisfied unique requirements
for safety switches. Such products included:
• explosion-proof switches for gasoline pumps
• door contacts and locks for personnel/freight
elevators
• cable monitoring switches for mountain cablecar
systems, and
• snap-acting limit switches featuring positive-opening
contacts for lignite diggers, construction cranes, and
other machinery.
Today the Schmersal Group has grown to include 5
manufacturing facilities around the world, producing over
20,000 different switching and control devices – making
Schmersal one of the largest machine safety suppliers.
The Schmersal product family has developed to include
the latest designs in Electro-Mechanical Interlocks,
Electronic Safety Sensors, Programmable Safety
Controllers, and Optoelectronic Safety devices.
Headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, the Schmersal
Group of companies has direct operations in 17 countries
employing over 1200 people around the world. A
global reach, combined with our focus on Man-Machine
Safety, enables Schmersal to remain committed to
customer’s safety application requirements.
This customer driven approach has given Schmersal the
ability to continually develop products to meet the latest
application needs and market trends around the world.
SYSTEM SAFETY: PROTECTION
FOR MAN AND MACHINE
Safety requirements for workers in almost all industries
have evolved to insure that safety in the workplace is
no longer an option. Government organizations around
the world have made worker safety a priority for companies
which has drawn even greater attention to the topic
of safety. The latest product developments from the
Schmersal Group have focused on advanced safety
systems designed to satisfy the most current safety
standards and regulations.
GLOBAL COVERAGE:
Technical support and
inventory in more than
22 countries.
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