Schulz

Heritage: From a Joinville Foundry to Latin America's Largest Compressor Maker

Schulz was founded on June 12, 1963 by Heinz Schulz as Metalúrgica Schulz — a foundry with 26 employees in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Six decades later, Schulz S.A. operates two industrial divisions: Schulz Automotiva, one of Brazil's largest integrated machining foundries and a world reference in gray and nodular iron castings, and Schulz Compressores, the largest manufacturer of piston and rotary screw air compressors in Latin America. With more than 3,000 employees, over 10,000 distribution partners, and roughly 700 technical assistance points, Schulz builds compressors at a scale few manufacturers in the Americas can match — and the foundry heritage still matters, because Schulz casts and machines its own cast-iron pumps rather than assembling someone else's.

Schulz compressor pumps have been exported to major U.S. compressor manufacturers since 1980 — there is a good chance an American-branded compressor you have worked on was running a Schulz pump. In 1999 the company opened Schulz of America, Inc. in Acworth, Georgia, its first subsidiary outside Brazil, and in 2021 moved the operation into a 30,000-square-foot facility supporting U.S. distribution, parts, and warranty service. Schulz units sold in the United States carry a two-year pump warranty backed by that Georgia operation.

What Schulz Does: Compressed Air from Garage to Production Line

Every spray gun, pump, and booth CET sells runs on compressed air — and Schulz builds the machines that supply it. The line covers the full range from single-bay shops to multi-shift production:

• Two-stage piston compressors — Schulz's core line, from 5 to 20 HP at 175 PSI working pressure, built on cast-iron V-, W-, and L-configuration pumps from the MSV, MSW, and MSL families. Tank-mounted packages run from 80-gallon vertical units to the MSW 60 MAX — 15 HP, 45 CFM, on a 120-gallon horizontal ASME tank. These are the workhorses behind autobody booths, wood shops, and general industrial finishing.
• Audaz direct-coupled series — Schulz's modern two-stage platform with direct-coupled drive (no belts to tension or replace) and IC-TECH technology extending oil change intervals to 300 hours. The Audaz MCSV 20 delivers 20 CFM from 5 HP on an 80-gallon ASME tank — sized almost exactly to the continuous demand of a pressure-fed production spray gun.
• SRP rotary screw compressors — the SRP family spans Compact, Dynamic, and Flex (variable-speed drive) series from roughly 10 to 250 HP, delivering up to 1,141 CFM at 125 PSI, with a two-year airend warranty. Rotary screw is the answer when a finishing line runs continuously — multiple booths, robotic applicators, or powder systems that never let the compressor rest.
• Oil-free and oilless compressors — oil-free CSD and oilless MSV units for applications where oil carryover is unacceptable: medical and dental air, laboratories, and finishing processes where a single drop of compressor oil in the air line means fisheyes in the topcoat.
• ADS refrigerated air dryers and filtration — non-cycling refrigerated dryers from roughly 10 to 480 CFM using R134a refrigerant, with electronic dew-point display, plus 1-micron particulate pre-filters and 0.01-micron coalescing after-filters. Clean, dry air is not optional in spray finishing — water and oil aerosols in the line are the most common cause of coating defects that get blamed on the gun.
• Tanks, accessories, and replacement pumps — ASME-rated receiver tanks, bare cast-iron replacement pumps, and the service parts that keep a compressor room running for decades.

Why CET for Schulz

A compressor is not an accessory to a spray operation — it is the foundation of one. And sizing it wrong is the most expensive mistake in finishing: an undersized compressor starves an HVLP gun mid-panel, short-cycles itself to death, and fills the line with hot, wet air. CET sells Schulz compressors the same way we sell spray guns — as part of a system that has to work end to end.

• Sized by people who know the gun side. CET specifies compressors against the real CFM demands of the equipment they feed — the published consumption of a Binks or DeVilbiss gun at its operating pressure, the duty cycle of an AAA pump, the number of operators spraying at once. The result is a compressor matched to the work, with headroom instead of guesswork.
• Every model, shipped in 24–48 hours. CET ships Schulz compressors factory-direct rather than limiting you to what fits in a local warehouse — which means the entire Schulz catalog is available, in every tank size, voltage, and phase configuration, and it always ships within 24 to 48 hours. You get the right machine, not the closest one on hand.
• Air treatment specified with the compressor. Because CET supports the coating process downstream, every Schulz quote considers the dryer, filtration, and piping the finish quality depends on — not just the compressor horsepower. One source for the compressor room and the spray booth means one call when anything in between needs attention.

From a 5 HP two-stage for a cabinet shop to a variable-speed rotary screw feeding a production line, CET delivers Schulz compressed air sized for the spray equipment it powers — backed by Schulz of America's Georgia parts and warranty operation and CET's systems expertise.