
STÖBER manufactures gearboxes, servo motors and drive controllers as modular, perfectly matched drive systems.

STÖBER Antriebstechnik GmbH + Co. KG
Pforzheim · Laakirchen (AT) · Maysville, Kentucky (US) · Taicang (CN)New on Amplifa
About STÖBER Antriebstechnik
STÖBER Antriebstechnik is a family-owned drive technology company founded in 1934 and headquartered in Pforzheim. The portfolio includes planetary gearboxes and bevel gear units, rack and pinion drives, servo motors and drive controllers, including accessories and software. The drive systems are modular in design and freely scalable, enabling compact and high-performance machine concepts to be implemented. Drawing on its roots in gearbox manufacturing, STÖBER combines high-precision planetary gearboxes directly with dynamic servo motors. Customers come from mechanical engineering, stamping automation, ID card manufacturing as well as stage and event technology, for example in the movement of grandstands with loads of up to 26 tons. In addition to its headquarters in Pforzheim, the company maintains branches and subsidiaries in Austria, the USA and China, among others, and supplies customers worldwide.
- Site
- Pforzheim
- Processes
- Technical Consulting, Support, Commissioning Support, Software/Accessories for Drive Controllers
- Materials
- Planetary Gearboxes, Bevel Gear Units Series K, Rack and Pinion Drives, Servo Motors and Drive Controllers
- Certificates
- IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2
- Founded
- 1934
- Employees
- 700 (as of 2011)
- Industries
- Mechanical Engineering, Stamping Automation, ID Card Manufacturing/Linear Applications, Stage/Event Technology
- 01
Technical consulting and engineering design
- 02
Gearbox and drive controller manufacturing
- 03
System assembly gearbox/motor/controller
- 04
Software and accessories
- 05
Commissioning support and service
Products and Systems
Planetary Gearboxes
High-precision planetary gearboxes, combined directly with dynamic servo motors.
Bevel Gear Units Series K
Smooth-running angle gearboxes for demanding applications with high dynamics, e.g. grandstand technology.
Rack and Pinion Drives
For linear applications, optimized through micro-geometries and FEM calculation models.
Servo Motors and Drive Controllers
Including frequency inverters, servo controllers and associated software.
Locations

Pforzheim
DEHeadquarters and production
- Materials
- Gearboxes, servo motors, drive controllers
Laakirchen
ATSales branch Austria
Maysville, Kentucky
USSubsidiary
Taicang
CNSubsidiary
Industries
Additional services
Reference customers
Quality and Cyber Security
STÖBER develops drive systems systematically with protective measures that meet the requirements of Security Level 2 per IEC 62443-4-2, and supports customers from design through to commissioning.
| Evidence | Pforzheim |
|---|---|
| IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2 |
History
- 1934
Founded by Paul and Wilhelm Stöber as 'Verstellantrieb' with variable-speed gearbox
- 1949
Expansion of production after the currency reform
- 1960
25,000th gearbox produced in series production
- 1982
Handover to the second generation (Siegfried Thiel, Ursula Thiel, Bernd Stöber)
- 1991
Sales of frequency inverters, servo controllers and software; modular gearbox-motor system MGS; founding of the subsidiary in Maysville, Kentucky
- 1993
Development of high-precision planetary gearboxes combined with servo motors
- 2003
Patrick Stöber and Andreas Thiel take over management
- 2011
Approximately 700 employees
- 2013
Award 'Germany's Customer Champions 2013'
- 2019
Founding of the subsidiary in Taicang, China
- 2023
Rainer Wegener takes over management; Patrick Stöber and Andreas Thiel remain shareholders