Background The company SH a.s was established in 1925 as a subsidiary of Louis Friedman, incorporated, located in Vienna, Austria. Their specialization is in engineering and manufacturing of lubricant systems.
Initially the subsidiary which is now SH a.s located near Brno Czech Republic, started out as a supplier of component part from parent company.
1939 company has hired 120 employees in total and began to manufacture the bearings and railroad car couplings among other railroad related components. During the war periods 1939 to 1945, production was modified to produce a variety of hydraulic valves for military applications, including submarines.
Major capital investments were made in the physical facilities in 1976. Production facilities for manufacturing of the Hydraulics components were substantially expanded. Internally designed hydraulic radial piston type motors were put into production.
A major expansion took place in 1980 till 1990. The production of centralized grease lubricating systems was substantially expanded. A newly introduced R&D effort resulted in the design, development, and production of lubrication system. During this period, as a legal Czechoslovakia monopoly, the company specialized in producing systems for heavy equipment manufacturing industries, steel making and mining.

Nationalization:

In 1948 the company was nationalized and its engineering and manufacturing resources were re-focused on railroad applications. During this nationalization company has changed his focus and starts manufacture the new products like new heating system for railroad cars and manufacturing of centralized grease lubrication system was restarted and hydraulic technology became integral part of
It remained nationalized till 1990 and major changes made during last 10 years from 1980 to 1990. During this period newly introduced R&D efforts resulted in design, development, and production of lubrication equipment reflecting a wide range of application.

Transformation: Transformation starts in 1987 when company start negotiated a licensing agreement with a French firm, Poclain Hydraulics, for manufacturing the radial piston hydraulic motors and components. A major transformation came in 1992 when ZTS Juranovy Zavody was privatized under Czechoslovak privatization program.

Products: Company is offering three lines of products
I. Heavy Hydraulics
II. Light Hydraulics
III. Custom fabrication of components

Heavy Hydraulics:

The market of heavy redial piston hydraulics is relatively stable. The company is the sole manufacturer of these types of motors for customers in domestic market and Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Most of this type of equipment is for military customers. New equipment was designed for the customization of the product.
New R&D is limited due to lack of capital investment in this sector which is a problem for the company as their competitors are investing in this area for better and qualitative products.

At the request of major clients S.H a.s introduced some innovations, but only a very selective basis these innovations generally represents only