Elma Schmidbauer GmbH

It was the trained watchmaker and inventor Hans Schmidbauer who revolutionised the watch industry in 1948 with the world's first watch movement cleaning machine, the Elma Super Elite. Today, there is probably not a watchmaker in the world who does not know Elma.

Elma is still 100% family-owned. More than 280  employees  currently generate an annual turnover of over EUR 50 million. The main products 

• ultrasonic cleaning systems ,
• ultrasonic  and
• watch cleaning devices  and
• cleaning chemicals  

are exported to more than 80 countries.

The company's core competences lie in  ultrasonic  and  steam cleaning , where it is the market leader. In the in-house  process laboratory , highly qualified process engineers work together with customers to develop process solutions for individual cleaning tasks, which then result in a customised system concept including cleaning processes and chemicals.