Carl Heinrich Johann Schenck was a German technology pioneer and businessman who established Carl Schenck Eisengießerei & Waagenfabrik in 1881, in Darmstadt, Germany.EBN 24/7 index; European Business Network. The company was the first manufacturer of the industrial balancing machine."Schenck Shanghai Machinery Corp. Ltd." ; Ringier Industrial Sourcing.com. It is known today as Carl Schenck AG, and has been a subsidiary of the global technology conglomerate, Dürr AG, since 1999."Reference for Business.com"; website.
Memoriam The Carl Schenck Award, offered annually by the Technical University in Darmstadt, is dedicated to him. The TU campus houses two units of Dürr's Measuring and Process Systems division: the Balancing and Assembly Products unit (BAP); and the Schenck Technologie und Industriepark.
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