Founded in 1945, SCHMERSAL specializes in the design and manufacture of industrial switches, machine safety products, position sensors and related control accessories. We are represented in more than 30 foreign countries.

Our North American operation, SCHMERSAL Inc., is focused on supplying machinery builders and users with safety components which satisfy the machine guarding requirements of OSHA, ANSI and the European Machinery Directive.

In addition we offer:

• Application assistance
• Safety seminars for machine safeguarding
• Safety videos on machine safeguarding
• Tutorial information regarding ways to meet new and emerging machine guarding safety requirements
• Products are available at more than 120 stocking distributor locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.

For the representative and/or local distributor nearest you click on "Reps & Distributors" above.

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