Schlatter Industries

Hans A. Schlatter, born in Zurich in 1886 as the son of a master metalworker, first came to work on resistance welding in America, at a time where this was technology was hardly known in Europe.

After returning to Switzerland, he put this knowledge to good use. His groundbreaking work was well received in the industry and lead to the founding of his company in 1916.

The early beginnings

During the First World War, he developed a method for the manufacture of hobnails. This method not only used electric heating to efficiently press and form the nail heads, but also to weld these heads with the pins afterwards. He also used this process of heat creation successfully for spot welding.

In 1930, H. A. Schlatter took over as representative for the wire butt welding machines at the American company Microweld which gained him access to companies and the mesh welding industry worldwide. For example, he provided radio and electric lighting manufacturers with precision spot welding machines, as well as steel manufacturing companies with high efficiency spot welding machines to weld up to 15 mm thick steel panels