Operations were expanded every five years. These expansions included a move from Augsburg to Königsbrunn, followed by another move in 1991, to our present site in Gersthofen. As the operations grew, the range of products and services on offer followed suite. After starting out making only car seats, a bus-fitting service was soon added in the 1970s. Initially, the company concentrated on re-covering seats in second-hand buses, but quickly moved on to providing stitching and upholstery for all the well-known bus and seat manufacturers, such as Kässbohrer (later Evobus), Neoplan, Göppel, MAN, Kiel, etc.

The start of the 1980s saw the first motor-home seats made for the European market. Originally, the seats were imported from the USA, but within a short period of time, Schnierle supervised their manufacture itself. Bus fitting and production of motor-home seats remain core areas of Schnierle’s work today.

During the 1990s, Schnierle started to develop and manufacture its own seat designs for minibuses – in fact the company was the first to offer a coach seat that had an integrated three-point seatbelt. Seats with integrated seatbelts are still the speciality of Hermann Schnierle GmbH.

Today the company concentrates on providing seating and upholstery services of all types for the motor-home sector, as well as on manufacturing seats and benches for minibuses, commercial vehicles, ambulances, police vehicles, fire-brigade vehicles and military vehicles, as well as many other special-purpose vehicles.

It now has a modern machining pool, with the latest industrial sowing machines, CAD laser cutting systems and assembly equipment. The newest addition to the company’s production facilities is its own test track, to allow it to reduce the cost of new product development for seat-belted seats, even on small production runs.