Quality and production
A quality promise with a future
The quality factor plays a decisive role in the entire life cycle of a product. The aim: Excellent customer satisfaction through closed quality control loops – from development and production through delivery and service to feedback and its implementation in development. A loop that closes yet always remains open to change.
Responsibility
Quality standards
Quality management
Evaluating impact
Further developing quality standards
Training employees
Assessing environmental sustainability
Enhancing sustainability
Our production
High quality requirements worldwide
Geislingen, Hayingen, Riedlingen, Diez, Zuchwil, Domažlice, Montebello and Heshan together form a state of the art manufacturing network for knives, pots, pans, cutlery, coffee machines and baking pans. Automated production islands ensure high productivity with maximum flexibility. Where required, quality is ensured through manual work. We set our own WMF high quality standards for all products, regardless of the geographical location of the production facility.
Coffee machine production at the Geislingen site is of huge importance for the entire Group. Thanks to our manufacturing depth and many years of expertise, we are able to respond individually to the wishes of our customers and partners when building the machines.
Area: 57.000 m2 Production: WMF 1500 S+, WMF 5000 S+, WMF 1100 S, WMF 1300 S, WMF Espresso, WMF 9000 F Special feature: WMF coffee machines always offer the highest quality. And thanks to an intelligent modular principle, they can be individually adapted to the needs of the customer.Knives of the highest quality and with patented Performance Cut technology are manufactured in Hayingen, Swabia. The site represents the link between tradition and innovation.
Area: 6.000 m2 Production: up to 3,000 knives per day Special feature: The knives are forged traditionally – rather than through an automated process – from one piece, and are therefore perfectly balanced.„With over 100 years of baking experience, ‘Made in Germany’ is written in big letters here at the site in Diez. Sustainable, effective and flexible manufacturing – with a competent, broad and in-depth product range.“
Area: 10.619 m2 Production:Metal baking pans from the “Kaiser” brand Besonderheit: We can draw on over 100 years of baking experience.„Highest level coffee expertise – this is what Schaerer’s production facility at the site in Zuchwil (CH) stands for. ‘Swiss coffee competence’ says it all and it offers customers all over the world the ultimate coffee enjoyment based on customized concepts, adapted to individual needs.“
Area: 17.000 m2 Production: Coffee machines from the Schaerer brand for 125 years Special feature: The focus is on the prompt implementation of customer-specific wishes and the agile, flexible response to projects of all sizes.Manufacturing at the Domažlice (CZ) site is distinguished by its expertise in cutting and forming stainless steel, and constitutes a ‘center of excellence’ in surface finishing.
Area: 4.300 Produkcion: Cutting and shaping stainless steel, surface treatment and finishing, assembly Special feature: Many products are manufactured in Domažlice for the professional sector, such as coffee machine accessories and muesli dispensers.At its facility in Montebello, California, Curtis produces a comprehensive range of professional filter coffee machines. The brand promise ‘the art of brewing’ shows that we understand the art of brewing coffee.
Area: 16.000 m2 Production: 10 production lines, ranging from the manufacture of coffee or tea serving containers to coffee and tea brewers Special feature: The assembly area operates with just-in-time and lean manufacturing technologies.High-quality table cutlery is produced at the Heshan site: with tremendous manufacturing expertise for scratch-resistant Cromargan Protect, the perfect cut for the sharpest knives, and uniquely complex cutlery design.
Area: 40.000 m2 Production: Premium table cutlery, kitchen knives, pot handles Special feature: Outstanding expertise in high-quality cutlery.
