Company The SBA Group is a medium-size organization managed by the owners since the formation in 1969. The parent company in Heiligenstadt/Oberfranken has over 110 employees. Together with another about 40 employees in Jena, it sell goods worth some 12 million EUR in the aggregate every year. This puts SBA among the Top Ten of Germans small transformer suppliers. The basis of this success is the people behind SBA. Highly motivated employees, some former company trainees, apply their advanced technical know-how and ensure the high quality of all SBA products. Hardly any other field in the customization of small transformers and power supplies demands more competence, flexibility and customer focus. The best solution to a customers problem is always developed in a team effort. Responsible individual action and creative starting points yield products of optimal dimension and long life. Computer-backed processes, advanced materials engineering practices and high-level logistics are the basis of the attractive prices of our products. Continuous innovation in all areas from development to delivery ensure our constant competitiveness. Every day, new proof of SBAs performance potential is provided: Products of special design in small or medium lots permit individual solutions for diverse applications in industry - often within only a few working days. SBA emphasizes Germany as its home country. Impressive proof of this is the new facility in Heiligenstadt completed in 1996 and in the Saalepark Jena industrial estate in 1999. Our corporate philosophy: professionalism, reliability and speed put you, the customer, in focus. ______________________________________________________ Range of products Incorporated transformers: - Single-phase transformers up to 630 kVA - Three-phase transformers up to 1000 kVA - Isolating transformers for installation in hospitals - Insulating transformers up to 10000 V - High current transformers up to 2000 A - Autotransformers - Transformers for rail vehicles - Distribution board transformers Resin-encapsulated transformers: - Safety isolating transformers, stationary/transportable - Isolating transformers, stationary/transportable - Print and flat transformers Ballasts for lighting equipment: - Transformers for low-voltage halogen lamps 20 W to 500 W - Special ballasts for all kinds of gas discharge lamps up to 100 kW - High-reactance transformers - Controlled ballasts (transductors) - Electronic ballasts Voltage stabilizers: - Magnetic up to 3 kVA - Motor-controlled up to 1000 kVA Reactors and inductors: - AC reactors up to 500 kVAr - DC reactors - System and commutating reactors - Filter reactors - AF rejector circuits - Components for switched-mode power supplies DC power supplies: - Unsmoothed, up to 1000 A - Smoothed up to 40 A - UPS modules for DC power supplies Ring core and variable toroidal transformers: - Ring core transformers up to 1000 VA - Variable toroidal transformers, single-phase and threephase, up to 63 A Services: - Vacuum impregnation with high-grade polyester resin - Vacuum encapsulation with polyurethane resin - Pad printing - Milling of prototype boards, one or two-sided ______________________________________________________ History SBAs history: 1969: At January 1st , SBA-Elektrogerätebau (OHG) is formed by Ing. Helmut Schatzler and Otto Baier. Production commences in the former school building at Aufsess in Franconian Switzerland. 1970 - 1973: Constant growth of the firm. Workforce of 65 and a large number of home workers at the end of 1973. 1974: Move to a factory building with some 1,700 sq.m. area in Heiligenstadt. 1978: The founder"s son, Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Schatzler, joins the firm after completing his studies of electrical engineering. Otto Baier retires from the firm at the end of the year for age reasons. 1979: On 1 January, the firm changes its name to SBA-Elektrogerätebau GmbH with Helmut and Wolfgang Schatzler as managing directors. 1980 - 1985: Constant growth makes extensive investment in buildings and machinery possible. Workforce reaches about 80 at the end of 1985. 1986: Prefabricated iron cores for HT transformers are added to the product range and require the construction of a new production hall of 300 s.qm. 1987: The sister company Ing. Fritz Hegenbart in Nürnberg is dissolved on 30 June and production transferred to Heiligenstadt. Production is now in 2 shifts. 1989 - 1990: The foreseeable reunification boosts the economy. SBA now has 120 employees. Production cannot be expanded at the current site. Talks are started with Carl Zeiss Jena with the aim of taking over the winding department at Schreckenbachweg. 1991: The contract under which the firm merges with the newly formed SBA-Trafobau Jena GmbH is notarized on 9 July. On 1 September, 52 of formerly 70 employees are taken over. Horst Leipold from Jena remains works manager. Senior owner Helmut Schatzler dies on 17 August aged 66. A successful entrepreneur, respected citizen and generally popular person passed away much too early. 1992 - 1994: Economic recession, the breakdown of the markets in eastern Europe and the reorganization of the former major customer, Zeiss, require staff reduction to 30 employees in Jena. 1995 - 1996: The situation has improved. SBA-Trafobau Jena is again earning a profit. In Heiligenstadt, a new company building with over 3,500 s.qm useful area is built in the new Winkelleite industrial estate. 1997: On 14 March, the new building is inaugurated in a festive ceremony attended by numerous guests of honor. An Open House event is part of the program. The name of the parent company in Heiligenstadt is changed to SBA-TrafoTech GmbH. 1997: on 1 December Dipl.Ing. Matthias Leipold takes over the management of SBA-Trafobau Jena GmbH. 1999: After only 6 months of building, SBA-Trafobau Jena occupies the new company building in Nord industrial estate on 1 September. The building has over 1,700 s.qm area.