The company S+S Armaturen GmbH & Co. KG is a traditional company on the industrial site of Magdeburg, the capital of the German federal state Saxony-Anhalt.

Magdeburg is known in German history as imperial town of Ottonian emperors, member-city of the Hanseatic League, important commercial centre in the Middle Ages, Prussia’s strongest fortress and developed into one of Germany’s large centres of mechanical engineering. At the end of the 19th century, it took Magdeburg only 10 years to advance from the 15th to the 7th rank of large German cities, so that it took over even Frankfurt/Main and Hanover.