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SCHOPF Maschinenbau GmbH is a German company that produces specialist vehicles for the mining and aviation industries.

It soon expanded into the growing sector of aviation by manufacturing stair lifts, tow trucks and loading machinery.

In supplying to NATO, major airlines, ground handling companies and airports around the globe, 90% of SCHOPF’s aviation related production is for export, with deliveries to more than 130 countries.

SCHOPF’s range of mining vehicles comprises underground loaders suited for various materials and volumes, together with dump trucks produced in collaboration with an international partner.[who?]

Product conception, design, manufacture and sales are carried out by a team of 130 workers, all based at the factory in Ostfildern near Stuttgart in south western Germany.