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Category: Schaffhausen

  • Generis AG continues business development

    Generis AG continues business development

    As the current service contract with Generis AG expires at the end of 2024, the Schaffhausen government decided to put the mandate to manage the economic promotion and regional and location development office out to public tender at an early stage. Generis AG prevailed over its competitors in the two-stage tendering process.

    Extension of the mandate until 2032
    The new service contract comes into force on 1 January 2025 and ends on 31 December 2032, ensuring continuity and stability in location development in the canton of Schaffhausen.

    Future-oriented measures
    Generis AG will continue its successful work, with a particular focus on digitalisation and demographic challenges. Close collaboration with local and regional partners remains central to this.

    Trust and stability
    The Schaffhausen cantonal government sees the renewed award of the mandate to Generis AG as a confirmation of its previous successes and expects it to further strengthen Schaffhausen as a business location.

  • Halter takes over residential project near Schaffhausen

    Halter takes over residential project near Schaffhausen

    Schlieren-based property developer Halter AG has acquired the Waldstadt residential development site in Pantli between Schaffhausen and Stetten SH, according to a press release. The seller is DOST Architektur GmbH in Schaffhausen. The two companies will jointly realise the planned construction of 200 owner-occupied flats.

    According to the plans, over 200 condominiums are to be built on 47,600 square metres of land. In a first step, 100 condominiums will be realised. This will be followed seamlessly by the other stages, according to the company press release. Over 40 different types of flat are available for different living requirements. The sizes range from 2.5-room to 5.5-room flats. The flats are orientated on several sides and offer rooms with plenty of natural light and a direct view of nature and the forest. The new living space is suitable for families, couples and commuters from the region.

    A new bus stop and direct access to the motorway in the direction of Schaffhausen, Winterthur and Zurich ensure optimal transport connections. An integrated kindergarten and a day care centre round off the offer and make Waldstadt im Pantli attractive for families too.

    The construction time for the first stage is estimated at around two and a half years. If everything goes according to plan, the first flats can be occupied in 2026, according to Halter AG.

  • GF tackles expansion of Klostergut Paradies

    GF tackles expansion of Klostergut Paradies

    The Paradies Foundation, which belongs to GF, wants to upgrade its Klostergut Paradies estate in Schlatt. To this end, a hotel is to be built on the site of the GF conference and seminar centre and the existing restaurant is to be renovated and converted in an environmentally friendly manner, GF announced in a press release. The Schaffhausen-based industrial group is investing around CHF 10 million in the project.

    The hotel will serve the company’s seminar and meeting guests. However, the planned 34 rooms will also be available to other guests, particularly at weekends and during holiday periods. The Paradies restaurant, which was previously only open in summer, will be open all year round following the renovation work. The new construction and remodelling will create around 15 new jobs in Schlatt.

    In connection with the project, GF is examining the wish expressed by nature conservation and environmental organisations to renaturalise the banks of the Rhine near the restaurant and hotel together with the energy company SH Power, writes GF. The Müli stream has already been renaturalised during the preliminary work and a cold-water bay has been added.

    Following the granting of the necessary building permits in recent weeks, construction work is set to begin in June. Completion is scheduled for the end of December 2025. The restaurant will remain closed during the construction work and will be replaced by a sunset bar at weekends during the summer months.

  • SH Power wants to network Herrenacker with other heating networks

    SH Power wants to network Herrenacker with other heating networks

    The Herrenacker heating association has been supplying municipal and private properties around Herrenacker in Schaffhausen’s old town with heat from groundwater since 1993. It belonged to a simple partnership in which the canton held 56 per cent and the city 44 per cent.

    Now SH Power is taking over the heating network with retroactive effect from 1 July. According to a media release, the municipal energy supplier will pay the canton CHF 2.8 million for its share in the simple partnership.

    SH Power intends to supply the entire old town with sustainable heat in the future. The Herrenacker network has a large storage capacity and is to be networked with other heating networks in the future.

  • Schaffhausen extends contract with Generis AG

    Schaffhausen extends contract with Generis AG

    Generis AG will continue to run the economic development agency for the canton of Schaffhausen until 2024. The same applies to the office for the promotion of regional and location development. The government council decided this at its meeting on Tuesday.

    The service contract currently runs until the end of 2022. After that, it can be extended for a further two years for the last time. At the beginning of 2015, Generis AG was awarded the contract to manage both facilities.

    As stated in a communication from the government council, Generis AG has “so far fulfilled its mandate very well. The results achieved to date in the field of business development represent a real success story. ”That is why the service contract is now being extended.

  • TTS Inova wins Schaffhauser innovation award

    TTS Inova wins Schaffhauser innovation award

    Every two years the Industry and Business Association Schaffhausen ( IVS ) and the ITS Industry and Techno Center Schaffhausen host the IVS Innovation Prize of the Schaffhauser Platzbanken . It is awarded to companies from the Schaffhausen economic area for developing and successfully placing an innovative product on the market. Criterion for awarding the prize are, among other things, the profitability and the economic potential of the innovation.

    This year 23 companies competed for the award. Among them, TTS Inova from Thayngen SH won the prize and a prize money of 10,000 francs, the IVS informed in a message. The family company, which specializes in trimmings and technical textiles, was awarded for an elastic geothermal probe. “Our product is food-compliant, so it can also be used in areas where you would otherwise not be able to install a geothermal heat pump,” owner Simon Bernath is quoted in the press release.

    The young company Imnoo from Buchberg SH came second with its artificial intelligence-based application for milled and turned parts. “Calculating technical parts is time-consuming and requires a great deal of specialist knowledge, which usually only a few people in the SME – and not infrequently only the managing director himself – has”, explains Inmo co-founder Jonas Albergatti.

    Savvy Telematic Systems AG took third place with its sensor for rail transport wagons. In the last competition in 2019, the company from the canton capital won first prize for a sensor for automatic flat spot detection in rail transport. The Tanne Schaffhausen restaurant received a special award for its ethical and ecological business model.

  • Canton Schaffhausen increases stake in cantonal works

    Canton Schaffhausen increases stake in cantonal works

    The canton of Schaffhausen is buying a temporarily owned 10 percent stake from its power station, informs the canton administration in a message . The shares were sold by the canton to EKS three years ago when the canton took over a total of 25 percent of EKS from Axpo Holding . At that time, the canton had sold the remaining 15 percent to EKT Holding AG ( EKT ) from Thurgau.

    The canton paid Axpo a total of CHF 53 million in 2017 to acquire the block of shares. They were reapplied by reselling 10 percent to EKS at a price of 21.2 million francs and reselling 15 percent to EKT at a price of 31.8 million francs.

    In January of last year, the canton considered buying back the shares held by EKS as part of its ownership strategy, the announcement further explains. The EKS never intended to hold the shares itself in the long term, it says there. As the purchase price, the two partners have agreed the price of 21.2 million francs already paid for the transaction three years ago.

    After the transaction, the canton will hold an 85 percent stake in its cantonal works. The remaining 15 percent of the EKS should remain in the possession of EKT. The canton administration wrote that this was welcomed “particularly with a view to the synergy potential in the network area, both by the government council of the canton of Schaffhausen and the government council of the canton of Thurgau as well as the boards of directors of EKS and EKT”.