Company profile
We close the hygiene gap. For over 130 years, the highest demands on performance, clear values and convictions have been brought together to form a globally active company, shaped and driven by our dedicated employees.
schülke is engaged in development, production and sale of over 300 products worldwide, including disinfectants, antiseptics, medical and cosmetic skin care products, preservatives and ingredients for deodorants. The company is one of the international market leaders in the areas of hygiene, infection prevention and preservation. schülke offers its customers high-quality products and services in the four core business areas of Healthcare, Life Sciences and Over-the-Counter (OTC). Our mission: We protect lives worldwide. Germs know no borders. This has always been the case and is of steadily growing importance in our present globalised world.
Facts and figures
- Headquartered in Norderstedt, Germany
- The company employs currently over 1300 people worldwide
- schülke sells its products in over 100 countries
- Represented by 20 branches and a network of sales partners
- The company operates three production sites in strategically important countries, Germany (schülke), France (Bioxal) and Brazil (Vic Pharma).
All threads come together at our headquarters in Norderstedt, near Hamburg. All of our central areas work hand in hand here: from research and development to management, production, marketing to sales and logistics. As one of the market leaders in infection prevention, we provide important impulses from here: for our continuous global growth – and for successful hygiene solutions for our customers.
Values
The principle expectations that we, as a international leading company in our specialist fields, have of our actions and what we do unite in our values and guidelines. These have shaped our corporate culture from the start, and still do so today. They form the base and provide orientation for our daily actions.
Certificates
We set high standards in the structure and organisation of development, production and sales. The high sense of responsibility is comprehensively expressed in our Total Quality claim. We take all relevant standards, laws and guidelines into account. These are confirmed by independent experts in regular routine checks (audits).
Rudolf Schülke Foundation
Together we create more. With the Rudolf Schülke Foundation, established in 1972 in honor of the founder Rudolf Schülke, we promote research and development in the areas of hygiene and microbiology beyond the internal company boundaries of schülke.
