Dresden Silver
Company Ernst Strohbach - Georgplatz - founded 1939
A company with tradition
Your specialist for technical and decorative metal finishing
As a specialist in technical and decorative metal finishing, Dresdner Silber und Metallveredlung GmbH can look back on decades of eventful company history as an electroplating company.
Today, we can silver plate, gold plate and electroplate almost any material.
The history of this traditional company is closely linked to the history of Dresden as a city of art.
Picture: Company founder Ernst Strohbach in front of the crown gate of the Dresden Zwinger in 1972.
Today, we can silver plate, gold plate and electroplate almost any material.
The history of this traditional company is closely linked to the history of Dresden as a city of art.
Picture: Company founder Ernst Strohbach in front of the crown gate of the Dresden Zwinger in 1972.
Our company history
From 1939 until today
- In 1939 Ernst Strohbach founded the former craft business
- In 1966-69, the company merged to form Strohbach-Schöne-Melzer-KG
- In 1972, the operation was forcibly nationalized
- After the turnaround, the company was able to be reprivatized in 1990 as one of the first in Saxony.
- With the spin-off of a production company in 1992, Dresdner Silber und Metallveredlung GmbH was founded in its present form. Since 1996 the company manufactures at its current location in Dresden-Niedersedlitz.
- In 2009, the production area in the modernized company building expanded again.
- 2010-2012 Investment in automated systems engineering, such as rack and drum machines
- 2014 Handover of the family-run company to the next generation
- 2016 Acquisition of the neighboring property with warehouse to expand the storage and production capacity at the site
- From 2019 expansion and conversion of existing locations
- At present the enterprise employs 41 coworkers, among them 3 apprentices.
