About Sauter GmbH

As one of the leading control suppliers of automation technology, we have placed ourselves at the service of our customers since 1972.
With a broad service spectrum, we provide high quality solutions for the concrete industry. From planning expertise and software development to well complete commissioning, our customers receive comprehensive services from a single competent supplier.
Many successful enterprises around the world place their trust in our services.
Today the company ranks among the leading manufacturers of control systems in the mixing and dosing industry. A very customer-oriented way of thinking and the highest standards of quality guarantee our success. Far more than 1700 controls from our company are in over 35 countries around the world in action. For over fifty years, we have been manufacturing machine and plant control systems in conventional, PLC, BUS and in the proven and very reliable PC technology. We take individuality of our customers as a matter of course. All products are exactly adapted to customer needs.
Based on our longstanding expertise and a thorough analysis of the specific requirements we are able to offer customized solutions for our customers. Through the use of Sauter controls you can fully concentrate on your core business. Complete solutions with the right amount of technical progress, and all this from one source, are important factors for a secure future.
Competence and experience write a 50-year success story
Foundation of Sauter & Sehn GdR
New business premises
Due to the steadily growing company, the move from Klettgau-Geißlingen to rented business premises in Wutöschingen took place.
Computer technology arrives
Anniversary 10 years
Well-deserved retirement
On 31.12.1985 Mr. Georg Sehn was adopted into well-deserved retirement.
Sole owner
From 01.01.1986 Sauter & Sehn GbR was managed by Kurt Sauter as sole owner.
Renaming and change of leadership
In 1989, Dipl. Ing. Werner Schmid is appointed as a further managing director At the same time, the company is renamed Sauter + Schmid GmbH. The business of the GmbH is now run by Kurt Sauter and Dipl. Ing. Werner Schmid geleitet.
Integration of other shareholders
In 1989, the two sons, Gerhard and Detlef Sauter, were integrated as further shareholders.
Relocation to a new company building
The company grows with the increasing customer demand and so in May 1991 the move to the new company building takes place.
The newly created building provided enough space for the employee. In response to the constant changes in technology and customer requirements Both , we have developed our range of services.
Anniversary 25 years
Sauter + Schmid GmbH celebrates its 25th birthday in July 1997. The company can look back on successful years of continuous growth. Founded in 1972 by Kurt Sauter and Georg Sehn, the company is today an established provider of innovative products and solutions in the concrete industry. Behind the success are our employees, who advance the company with their distinctive industry knowledge and personal commitment.
Name change and change of leadership
Mr. Dipl. Ing. Werner Schmid leaves the Sauter + Schmidt GmbH on 01.10.1997. At the same time, the company is renamed Sauter GmbH. From October 1997, Kurt Sauter, Detlef Sauter and Gerhard Sauter will provide the new generation of managers.
Handover and change of leadership
After many successful years, Kurt Sauter stepped back from an active role in the business in 2000. Before leaving, he handed over responsibility for the company to his two sons Detlef and Gerhard Sauter.
healthy growth
Sauter GmbH has spent a lot of time on this, but has also been very lucky in filling the most important positions with good employees.
Beginning 2017 the Sauter GmbH confer to the two employees Tobias Schmidt and Christian Weidner representative with power of attorney. Thus, further healthy growth will be ensured in the coming years and thus secure the jobs of the employees.
We believe that good employees make an important contribution to the success of a company.
Sauter GmbH mourns the loss of Georg Sehn
On 30.06.2018 the company founder and former owner Georg Sehn dies at the age of 93. Deeply affected, Sauter GmbH bids farewell to the company's formative personality.
New generation of leaders
On the basis of the strategic orientation of the company and with regard to the targeted continuation of the company, Sauter GmbH is taking a big step towards the future. The former Sauter GmbH handed over all current and future business to the newly founded Sauter GmbH on June 1, 2021. The significant changes are that the previous management team, the two managing partners and owners, Detlef and Gerhard Sauter, welcome two new partners, Tobias Schmidt and Christian Weidner. In the future, the newly founded Sauter GmbH will consist of four equal managing partners and owners.
Anniversary 50 years
In 2022, Sauter GmbH will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Tobias Schmidt, Christian Weidner, Detlef and Gerhard Sauter, like to look back on the successful years: "It is impressive to see the dynamic with which Sauter GmbH has developed and optimized itself from a small company to one of the leading companies in the industry".
The long-standing success is based to a large extent on the commitment and team spirit of the Sauter GmbH employees.