Having started as an independent company and then spent a brief period as a subsidiary of Biesse of Italy, Schelling Anlagenbau returned to private ownership in 2003.
Wolfgang Rohner and Stefan Gritsch, both managers of Schelling at that time, got together with two locally-based companies, Alpla and Mawera, who supported the two entrepreneurs in their buy-out of the company. Each partner took 25% of the holding.