TRUMPF expands Schramberg location

New building on the company campus // Commitment to Schramberg // Important location for laser production for electromobility

Schramberg, March 01, 2023 – The high-tech company TRUMPF has expanded its location in Schramberg with a 14,000 square meter building. For this, the high-tech company is investing a mid-double-digit million amount. "A new building always expresses a commitment to a location, to the people who work there and their families. Schramberg is now an immovable cornerstone of the TRUMPF Group," says Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, Chairwoman of the TRUMPF Managing Board. The building, which will already be occupied in December 2022, fulfills several functions. It offers offices for management and administration, a laser application and development center, a health center for employees and a visitor area.
TRUMPF Schramberg location benefits from e-mobility
"This building represents the heart of this site. It is not only a visual appearance, but is also characterized by the very highest efficiency for the site's needs. It houses all administrative areas of the location and is also the meeting place for our employees," says Hagen Zimer, Managing Director of the TRUMPF Schramberg location. Currently, about 1,500 people work in Schramberg. TRUMPF develops and manufactures lasers there that are used primarily in electromobility for the production of batteries and e-motors. The heart of laser expertise in Schramberg is the so-called disk laser. This laser is the first choice in automotive production in particular. For example, disk laser systems accelerate the production of battery cells for electric cars.
In addition to the disk laser, the developers in Schramberg have played a key role in developing so-called ultrashort pulse laser technology and bringing it to industrial maturity. This technology can be used, for example, to efficiently process hard materials such as glass, but also solar cells. In 2013, TRUMPF, together with representatives of the Bosch technology group and the University of Jena, received the prestigious German Future Prize from the German President for the industrialization of ultrashort pulse laser technology.
Wood and glass characterize the new building
The architectural firm Barkow Leibinger from Berlin designed the building. "The highlight is the company restaurant. Creating such a high, atmospherically pleasant space, letting it tower so openly and permeably over the site, aligning everything with the reference to the outdoors and views of the landscape, providing restful acoustics under this far exciting wooden roof - these are all signs of TRUMPF's appreciation for its employees, which we were only too happy to translate into architecture," says architect Regine Leibinger. The building stands on an area of 60 by 60 meters in a ring around an inner courtyard. As a result, there is daylight in all the rooms, which are distributed over four floors, three above ground and one below. On the top floor, the open wooden beam structure with its triangular basic structure characterizes the space. This is where the company restaurant for all employees at the site is located, with seating for around 420.
The facade of the multifunctional building consists of a wood-glass structure with horizontal steel bands approximately 1.60 m high. Since the floor slabs are offset from one another, the view creates an interplay between cantilevers, parapet bands and generous terrace areas.
In the new building, the architects paid attention not only to form but also to function. For example, a sprinkler tank for firefighting also serves as a cold storage tank. Production uses the stored cold to cool its manufacturing processes. The heat, which in turn is generated in the production of the lasers, is used by the building operations for heating.

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Building fulfills several functions
The new building houses, among other things, the development department, the company restaurant, but also rooms for administration. (Image: TRUMPF)	

Expansion of the company campus                                                    The new building is adapted to the site structure of the TRUMPF campus in Schramberg. (Image: TRUMPF)

Company restaurant on the upper floor 
An open wooden beam structure is the eye-catcher on the upper floor, where the company restaurant is located. (Image: TRUMPF)

Daylight in all areas 
Thanks to the ring-shaped inner courtyard, there is daylight in all areas of the building. (Image: TRUMPF)

About TRUMPF
TRUMPF is a high-tech company offering manufacturing solutions in the fields of machine tools and laser technology. The Company drives digital connectivity in the manufacturing through consulting, platform products and software. TRUMPF is one of the technology and market leaders in highly versatile machine tools for sheet metal processing and in the field of industrial lasers. 
In 2021/22, the company employed some 16,500 people and generated sales of about 4.2 billion euros. With over 80 subsidiaries, the TRUMPF Group is represented in nearly every European country as well as in North America, South America and Asia. The company has production facilities in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico and China.

Find out more about TRUMPF at www.trumpf.com

Press contact:
Silke Villinger
Press officer Schramberg
+49 7422 515-121 
Silke.Villinger@TRUMPF.com 
 
TRUMPF Laser GmbH, Aichhalder Str. 39, 78713 Schramberg, Deutschland 

Press contact:
Gabriel Pankow 
Spokesperson Laser Technology, Group Communications
+49 7156 303-31559
Gabriel.Pankow@trumpf.com

TRUMPF SE + Co. KG, Johann-Maus-Straße 2, 71254 Ditzingen, Deutschland