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This nomination stands for itself, because only companies that are outstanding in every respect have a chance of being awarded this coveted prize. Günther Schilling, founder and Managing Director of Schilling Engineering GmbH, has truly achieved outstanding things over the past 20 years. He is a prime example of what can grow from a brilliant product idea, technical know-how, courage and great commitment. Günther Schilling laid the foundations for his current company in 1998 in his garage at home in Klettgau. There, supported by his wife Gerda Schilling, he worked on ways to create a low-particle production environment. “Clean, sterile ambient air was required in many industries, I had gained experience in the industrial production of CDs myself and was confronted with this problem there,” recalls entrepreneur Günther Schilling, “there were simply no well thought-out Cleanroom solutions on the market. That aroused my ambition. My vision was to develop a modular turnkey system that could be individually tailored to the customer’s needs.” Günther Schilling pursued this goal very successfully.
Just one year after founding the company, he launched a fully automated sterile production cell onto the market. This was followed in 2000 by Germany’s first modular “room-in-room” cleanroom system, for which Günther Schilling was awarded the Rotary Innovation Prize. In 2006, Schilling Engineering moved into a new 1700 square meter building in the Horheim industrial estate.
Günther Schilling now had ten employees. He continued to tirelessly develop cleanroom technology. The product range was constantly expanded and adapted to customer requirements and a wide range of
applications. “The market was getting bigger and bigger, the demand for cleanroom systems offered enormous potential, which we knew how to exploit. Above all, we established ourselves as a competent
partner for turnkey solutions, where we supply everything from a single source for each individual customer, from planning and production to qualification.”
Text: Sandra Holzwarth
This article was published: Südkurier 15.09.2018
