ABOUT
SCHELL
Schell is also located here, one of the first points of contact for high-quality fittings for building technology.
What fitters, dealers, planners, architects and also builders appreciate about our Olpe family business: the uncompromising quality, the innovative products and, in particular, the striving towards the perfect and sustainable solutions.
Values that already stood for the company founder, Hubert Schell, in 1932. And with which his son, Günther Schell, has established a successful international company. Continuity and reliability are of great importance to us, and this is indicated by the fact that the company is still in family ownership, already in the third generation. If you choose SCHELL, you are choosing quality products “Made in Germany”. And they arise here from one source. Technically innovative, creatively demanding and produced from 450 motivated members of staff in our two highly modern works in Olpe.
QUALITY
Where Schell is on the outside,
there is quality on the inside. Be it fittings for hand washbasin, shower, WC or urinal.
Whether they be regulating angle valves, domestic appliance connection fittings or gas and heating installation fittings. Today, SCHELL supplies more than 2000 competent answers to the increased demands to our customers globally with regard to hygiene, saving water, reliability or robustness. To ensure that there is quality inside where SCHELL is on the outside, our products and processes are continuously checked and are distinguished with the corresponding quality and safety features. An example of this is quality management at SCHELL, which is certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015.
And because quality particularly plays a significant role for fittings in public, semi-public and commercial sanitary rooms, we at SCHELL place great value on high-quality and hygienic materials and construction that ensures high service life and best protection against vandalism.
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
If you have a water protection area outside of your factory gates, as SCHELL, then you have been automatically bestowed the responsibility for nature.
Therefore, for us it is an obligation to develop solutions that are one thing above all: sustainable. Ultimately, sustainability is a key challenge for today’s and the future generations.
Independent investigations have discovered that approx. 80% of the total life-cycle costs for a building are spent on operation and maintenance. This is where investments in water and energy-efficient fittings quickly pay off. Furthermore, maintenance and servicing costs play a decisive role. Schell enjoys being renowned as the pioneer in the field of sustainable fittings. Thus, e.g. by using our products alone, it is possible to save up to 60% water.
In addition, numerous fittings from Schell have been awarded the WELL label. This product classification introduced in Europe in 2011 provides information about the efficient and sustainable operation of a sanitary fitting.
Hygiene also plays a vital role in the topic of sustainability Particularly in public sanitary rooms. Here, Schell provides numerous intelligent solutions. For example, contact-free washbasin, WC or urinal fittings. At Schell, sustainability just does not mean the products. For example, our production processes take place in both our plants in the Sauerland. This saves us considerably in terms of logistics costs and helps nature by preventing avoidable environmental damage. Also self-evident for us as the resource-saving use of materials.
An example of this is the fact that all brass swarf and burr from the production processes are collected and returned to the brass manufacturer.
In addition, Schell is together with other leading brand manufacturers from the sanitary products sector, one of the founders of the Blue Responsibility initiative. The Blue Responsibility initiative represents sustained and future-proof drinking water supply. Schell as the expert is therefore committed to responsible handling of natural resources worldwide.
HISTORY
1932
Company founded by Hubert Schell in Olpe. Production of draw-off fittings.
- 1935 : Manufacture of WC flushing valves.
- 1949 : Production start of angle control valves.
- 1957 : Dipl. Ing. Günther Schell, son of the company founder, enters the company as managing associate and expands the business in Olpe - Finkenstrasse to 10,000 m².
- 1962 : Manufacture of heating fittings.
- 1974 : Construction of a new building with a production and logistics centre in Olpe - Sassmicker Hammer on an area of 40,000 m².
- 1989 : Expansion of sales network by technical field service.
- 1998 : Dipl.-Wirt. Ing. Joachim Schell, son of Dipl. Ing. Günther Schell, enters the company at management level.
- 1999 : Ongoing development of sanitary electronics in the field of electronically controlled wash basin fittings.
- 2002 : Foundation of the SCHELL subsidiary in Poland.
- 2004 : Construction of a new building for production, administration, training, research and development in Olpe - Raiffeisenstrasse on an area of 65,000 m².
- 2006 : Dipl.-Kff. Andrea Schell, daughter of Dipl. Ing. Günther Schell, enters the company at management level.
- 2007 : Rounding off of the range for public/semi-public sanitary rooms with the LINUS shower and wall-mounted draw-off fittings. SCHELL achieves highest international water-saving assessments - Water Rating.
- 2009 : Opening of the first representation in India. Membership in the Blue Responsibility Initiative - sustainable sanitary solutions.
- 2010 : Focussing on the public and commercial sanitary rooms with wash basin and shower fittings as well as WC and urinal flush systems.
- 2011 : Foundation of the SCHELL subsidiary in Belgium. SCHELL becomes a member of the European fittings association, EUnited Valves. WELL – Water Efficiency Label.
- 2012 : Foundation of the SCHELL subsidiary in India.
- 2013 : Foundation of the SCHELL subsidiary in Hungary and France.
- 2015 : More than 500.000.000 installed angle valves worldwide.
Foundation of the SCHELL subsidiary in Singapore.
- 2018 : Award as world market leader in the angle valves product segment.
- 2020 : The company expands its digital portfolio with the SMART.SWS Cloud Service and receives the German Innovation Award.
