Scheurer Swiss expands core team, opens first U.K. branch

Scheurer Swiss GmbH (Volketswil, Switzerland), fiber composite specialist, reports that it is setting the course for international expansion, and has opened its first foreign branch in the U.K. with co-founder Robert Tween as branch manager, which will help simplify, strengthen and expand the company’s already successful engineering and placement activities. Scheurer Swiss also expanded its core competence team with an experienced and well-connected consultant in the nautical sector.

Since the U.K. is said to be the largest and most influential market in terms of technology and application of composite materials — particularly in the areas of motor sports and aerospace — and because Scheurer Swiss has already served customers in this region, establishing Scheurer Swiss in the U.K. market, with a permanent branch office and a contact person directly onsite, was a natural step.

The former co-founder, Robert Tween, himself a member of well-known Formula 1 motor sport teams such as Jordan, BAR and Tyrrell, will act as a local strategic partner and managing director of the U.K. branch office abroad, providing the necessary information and contacts for existing and future customers and potential employees.

“We are looking forward to expanding our business in the U.K. and with the experienced expert for carbon fiber-reinforced plastics and long-term partner, Robert Tween, we have the best and most competent local representation we can imagine,” Dominik Scheurer, CEO of the Swiss head office Scheurer Swiss GmbH.

Scheurer Swiss says it will continue to offer its engineering services and carbon-reinforced 3D printing via the new U.K. location, but in future will also place employees directly onsite and promote the hiring of highly qualified composite workers to Switzerland.

“We want to make the conditions that we have established for our workforce here in Switzerland over the past few years available to the employees we hire from the U.K. to Switzerland,” Scheurer emphasizes. 

Scheurer Swiss is also expanding its team to include consultant Andreas Scheurer, former founder of Scheurer Bootswerft AG. Scheurer has joined the core competence team, in order to support Scheurer Swiss in the future with his expert knowledge and extensive network as a consultant in the nautical sector.

“Andreas Scheurer can look back on a success story of more than fifty years and can open new doors for us thanks to its extraordinary know-how in the field of fiber-reinforced boatbuilding,” says the Scheurer Swiss CEO. “We are pleased to have him on board as a consultant and are looking forward to new nautical projects.”