Magnetfabrik Schramberg (MS-Schramberg)

Bonded (compression-pressed and injection-molded) NdFeB, SmFeN and SmCo magnets; hard ferrite and rare-earth (NdFeB/SmCo) sintered magnets; and magnet-based system assemblies (overmolded and plastic-integrated magnet components, permanent-magnet rotors/assemblies) for automotive, e-mobility, medical, and industrial customers. Public sources do not describe in-house rare-earth mining, separation, or primary alloy/ingot production: the company's own rare-earth sintered-magnet process description on its website begins with 'inspection of incoming raw material' after a generic 'alloying' step, consistent with buying in alloy rather than producing it.

At a glance

Founded: 1963 — Founded in Schramberg (Baden-Württemberg) as a hard ferrite magnet manufacturer (then trading as Herbert Braun GmbH / Magnetfabrik Schramberg) with three employees; added plastic-bonded and rare-earth magnets in 1985. The current operating entity, MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG, was created in a 2008 legal restructuring; the original 'Magnetfabrik Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG' registration became an upstream holding entity, later renamed MS-Schramberg Holding GmbH & Co. KG (2008) and then SBS Holding GmbH & Co. KG (2016).
Headquarters: Schramberg-Sulgen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Ownership: Privately held, family-owned. Die Deutsche Wirtschaft's German family-business register lists the Moerschen family as owner ('Inhaber') of MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG. The operating company is registered at Amtsgericht Stuttgart as MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG (HRA 722601), with MS-Schramberg Verwaltungs-GmbH as general partner and MS-Schramberg Holding GmbH as limited partner. Company leadership (NRWZ, 2025) also describes the firm as family-owned, noting family shareholders' 'long-term interest' in the business.
Revenue: EUR 110.4 million
Reported, FY2018.
Source

Capacity

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What	Figure	Status	As of
Total magnet and assembly components produced (all product lines, all materials)	approximately 20 million parts per year	Historical	Dec 2015
New production site, United States	not disclosed	Under construction	Sep 2026

Narrative

MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG, based in Schramberg-Sulgen in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, traces its roots to a 1963 hard-ferrite magnet manufacturer historically known as Magnetfabrik Schramberg. It diversified into plastic-bonded and rare-earth magnets from 1985, into customer assembly work from 1992, and into plastic-component manufacturing from 2005, and today makes hard ferrite and rare-earth (NdFeB, SmCo, SmFeN) magnets in both sintered and plastic-bonded (pressed and injection-molded) forms, along with overmolded plastic/magnet assemblies for automotive, e-mobility, medical-technology, and industrial customers, drawing on bought-in magnet alloy rather than performing rare-earth separation or alloying itself. The company underwent a 2008 legal restructuring that separated an operating entity (now MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG) from an upstream holding company, which has since been renamed twice and no longer trades under a Magnetfabrik/MS-Schramberg name. It remains a family-owned business, with the Moerschen family named as owner in German family-business directories, and completed a generational leadership transition effective January 2025 when Michael Dein and Volker Patz succeeded long-serving managing director Heimo Hübner. Reported revenue peaked at roughly EUR 110 million in FY2018 (about 600 employees) before falling sharply — to EUR 94.3 million in FY2019 amid an automotive-sector downturn that led to layoffs in 2020, and press reporting in 2025 described a further decline to roughly EUR 80 million in the most recently reported year, alongside continued heavy dependence (reported at about 70%) on automotive customers. The company reports current headcount in the 415–460 range depending on source and date, and describes recent moves to diversify into non-automotive sectors and to add production capacity outside Germany, including a new U.S. site and plans for a site in Eastern Europe.

Where public sources disagree

Internal atlas working notes describe this company's rare-earth output as bonded/pressed NdFeB and SmCo only, with its own production starting at alloy-derived 'block making.' The company's public website and a Techpilot supplier profile instead describe an in-house sintering process for NdFeB and SmCo (in addition to hard ferrite), listing 'Alloying' as the first step of a generic rare-earth sintering flow but showing the company's own sequence beginning at 'Inspection of incoming raw material' — consistent with buying in alloy, but not with a bonded/pressed-only product scope. This profile documents the sintered-magnet claims from public sources rather than resolving the discrepancy.
Legal-entity naming is inconsistent across public registries and directories. The original 'Magnetfabrik Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG' registration (Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRA 480663) was renamed 'MS-Schramberg Holding GmbH & Co. KG' in 2008 and then 'SBS Holding GmbH & Co. KG' in 2016, and appears no longer to be the operating business. The operating company trading today as MS-Schramberg is registered separately as 'MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG' (HRA 722601). Some directories and press articles still refer to the operating company as 'Magnetfabrik Schramberg.'
Revenue figures conflict across sources and years. NRWZ (2020) reported FY2018 revenue of EUR 110.4 million falling to EUR 94.3 million in FY2019. NRWZ/press coverage of the 2025 leadership transition described a further, separately dated decline from roughly EUR 100 million to roughly EUR 80 million in 'the last reported year' without naming specific fiscal years. Die Deutsche Wirtschaft separately lists an unsourced figure of EUR 62.3 million with about 415 employees, explicitly labeled a 'Schätzung' (estimate) rather than a filed figure. No underlying Bundesanzeiger filing could be directly retrieved during this research to reconcile these figures; German Wikipedia cites a 'Konzernabschluss zum 31. Dezember 2023' filing in the electronic Bundesanzeiger, but the filing's actual figures were not accessible.
Employee counts vary by source and date: approximately 500 (2013), approximately 600 (2018), approximately 550 (Techpilot supplier profile, undated), 460 (NRWZ, reporting on the 2025 leadership transition), 415 (Die Deutsche Wirtschaft, undated estimate), and approximately 450 (current company website, undated).

Sources

Company website — About us — MS-Schramberg (magnete.de) (2026-09)
Company website — Company (English) — MS-Schramberg (magnete.de) (2026-09)
Product page — Sintered magnets — MS-Schramberg (magnete.de) (2026-09)
Product page — Plastic-bonded magnets (pressed) — MS-Schramberg (magnete.de) (2026-09)
MS-Schramberg (Wikipedia article, German) — Wikipedia (2026-09)
Archived company facts page 'Daten und Fakten' — magnete.de via Internet Archive Wayback Machine (2015-12-22)
Magnetfabrik Schramberg: Entlassungen weder überstürzt noch kurzfristig — NRWZ (Neue Rottweiler Zeitung) (2020-03-24)
Generationswechsel an der Spitze der MS Schramberg — NRWZ (Neue Rottweiler Zeitung) (2024-12)
MS Schramberg: Generationswechsel in der Geschäftsführung — Schwarzwälder Bote (2025-03-23)
Die Kunst, Magnetkräfte zu integrieren — Industrieanzeiger (2026-09)
Moerschen, Familie (MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG, Schramberg), Inhaber — Die Deutsche Wirtschaft (2026-09)
MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG (Schramberg) im Ranking der deutschen Top-Unternehmen — Die Deutsche Wirtschaft (2026-09)
MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co.KG supplier profile — Techpilot (2026-09)
Register history — SBS Holding GmbH & Co. KG (formerly MS-Schramberg Holding / Magnetfabrik Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG), HRA 480663 — North Data (2026-09)
Register entry — MS-Schramberg GmbH & Co. KG, HRA 722601 — North Data (2026-09)
Register entry — MS-Schramberg Holding GmbH, HRB 755569 — North Data (2026-09)

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