About us

Your benefit: a comprehensive service from one source

Our aim: the perfect discharge and conveying system for your corporation

As a result of our long-standing experience and focus on the delivery and transportation of bulk materials that are difficult to handle, you can rely on the highest quality standards and the best service performance. We offer also long-term economical solutions.

State-of-the-art technology and the use of top-quality materials guarantee high operating times and therefore less downtime and lower maintenance costs when transporting your bulk materials.

You provide us with your challenging bulk material, we deliver solutions, think laterally and put your ideas into practice.

Over more than 50 years in this field we have become an expert in bulk material that is difficult to handle. The specific flow characteristics, combined with abrasion and corrosion, is the challenge that confronts us on a daily basis. You have the bulk material; we have the expertise for its handling and transportation.

We make sure that all processes are interconnected and that your plant can be operated at a reliably high availability.

We combine project planning and manufacturing expertise with the highest systems knowledge, which we demonstrate globally with more than 4000 plants. Every single SHW product satisfies the maximum quality requirements, every component is precisely tailored and optimised to the individual bulk material.

Our ISO 9001 certification enables us to guarantee our clients compliance with all the necessary quality standards from production to installation, to commissioning and our after-sales service.

Der bunte Kreis Schwäbisch Gmünd e.V.

"Der bunte Kreis" supports families with ill children. It offers holistic help so that cronically cancer suffering and gravely ill children, youth and young adults and their families are able to manage their everyday life.

Govinda Entwicklungshilfe e.V.

The association Govinda Entwicklungshilfe e.V. gets involved with different projects (orphanage, school, development programes in west Nepal) for needy children and humans in the most poor regions of the world.

Our office-dog Clooney from the Franz-von-Assisi dog emergency relief

Since the end of the year 2012 our team is strengthened by Clooney. He originates from a south spanish animal shelter and comes to the office every day since then.  He was refered to Germany by the Franz-von-Assisi dog emergency relief. This animal rights group addresses itself to the task of redeeming dogs from spanish killing stations and give them to loving hands in Germany.

Code of Conduct

Dear employees,
SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH is always seeking for the market leadership in our industrial sector.  
In order to reach this target, our products and service have to meet the highest quality standard and our business practices have to be beyond any doubt. A real leadership position can only be reached by a behavior fulfils the highest ethical standards. 
 The Code of Conduct of SHW Storage & Handling Solutions, which you can find on the following pages, describes our self-commitment to act according these ethical standards. This commitment implies a total sense of responsibility which exceeds the compliance with the effective laws and requirements. The way we act at work, in the market and around the world defines us towards our environment – and we should leave nobody in doubt we are a company with strong values and an unwavering faith in the principle of entrepreneurial responsibility.  
We know that the today’s world is complex and that also it will lead us in the future to situations in which we cannot find an apparent solution immediately.
Regarding this complexity there is our Code of Conduct, to lead us and to support us to find the genuine solutions – as a single person and as a company. The abidance of the Code of Conduct is the duty of every single employee of SHW Storage & Handling Solutions. By following the rules of conduct we can have a positive influence within our industry segment and we can build up a company of which we can be proud of and in which an entrepreneurial responsibility demonstrates a decisive competitive edge.  
I express my thanks to every one of you for your engagement and your support.  
Achim Brommer - General Manager

Professionalism and Quality Awareness
The concept of professionalism and quality awareness in our system of values contains:

• Sense of responsibility
• Supporting colleagues during their work. Doing so we consider ourselves as service providers towards the others.
• Accountability
• Integrity and exemplary behaviour
• An objective and target-orientated contact with each other and with our business partners.

Considerate behaviour towards our customers and our suppliers
This means to us providing our customers with high-quality products and services, just as putting an effort into offering the best possible performance to competitive prices in every area of application.
Our work is strongly orientated on the requests and requirements of our customers.
We constantly proof, rate and improve our products, services, technologies and processes to guarantee the quality, the safety and the innovation on all levels. This happens out of the conception above the distribution up to the production.
We do not only base our decisions of procurement on economical, technical and procedural criteria, but we also pay high attention on social and ecological aspects, such as the protection of human rights, the avoidance of child work, the fight against corruption an the environment protection.
We respect the resources of our customers and suppliers and try to deal with it in a careful and responsible way.
We secure our suppliers the preservation of the contractual defined and appropriated interests.

Safety and environment awareness
The SHW Storage & Handling Solution GmbH especially pays attention to the working conditions, above all on health protection and safety guarantee.
The preservation of health at the working place and on the way to work is superior to all other aims like adherence to schedules or cost stability, etc.  
We pay attention on the resources of our environment and try to handle it careful and responsible.

Considerate behaviour towards our employees and our colleagues
By this we mean that we trust in everyone’s loyalty, motivation and sense of responsibility.
We expect of our colleagues and our employees to behave with integrity and to avoid conflicts of interest.
Any kind of discrimination of a colleague or an employee due to her or his origin, religion or gender, her or his membership of a minority strongly contradicts our corporate philosophy as a modern and liberal-minded company. Furthermore we do not tolerate such discrimination in anyway and will uncompromisingly persecute this.
The SHW Storage & Handling Solution GmbH respects the private life of its employees and supports actively the compatibility of family and profession. Therefor the SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH offers working time models and work concepts, which are flexibly coordinated to the requirements of the employees.
The SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH involves the employees in the development of intern processes. For this purpose we especially support the exchange of experiences and ideas through information and dialogue. An important factor for our success is the professional competence and the definite area of responsibility of our employees.
Each employee at least once a year conducts a conversation with her or his superior, in order to rate the employee and discuss his or her future professional career.
The latter being supported by suitable training measures.
We pay attention on the resources of our company and try to handle it careful and responsible.