1853
- Establishment of Franz Saurer's foundry in St. Georgen near St. Gallen
- Machine casting for embroidery machines, custom casting
- Cast iron railings, brackets, columns, horse stall fixtures
1862
- Relocation of the business to Arbon
- machinery casting for third-party textile machinery
1869
- Conversion of the company into Franz Saurer & Söhne, Arbon
- First Saurer hand embroidery machine
1878
- First Saurer Schiffli embroidery machine
1882
- Conversion of the company into F. Saurer's Sons
1888
- First sour crude oil engine for stationary installations
- Machine castings for engines and embroidery machines, custom castings
1890
- Invention of the thread-stitching machine
1891
- Portable engine with petroleum motor
1893
- First cargo ship with Saurer engine
1896
- Petroleum engines for automobiles
1898
- Acquisition of the business by Adolph Saurer
- SAURER double phaeton, bodied by Koch, Paris
- Gasoline engines
1903
- First Saurer 5-ton truck
1904
- First Saurer touring car
- First omnibus with a gasoline engine
1906
- Swiss PTT takes over first omnibus
1907
- straight-pull military rifle prototype
1908
- First automotive diesel engine
- Combat-ready military truck at the Paris Motor Show
1909
- Saurer racing boat wins «Lanz Prize» of the Lake Constance regatta
- Boat building discontinued
- Touring car production discontinued
1910
- Combat-ready military truck at the Paris Motor Show
1911
- A Saurer truck crosses North America
1912
- First Saurer embroidery machine
1914
- Boat building discontinued
- Touring car production discontinued
1916
- Schiffli embroidery machine type 1 S
1917
- A-type series
- Licensed production of aircraft engines – Hispano-Suiza
1919
- Opening of the postal bus service with Saurer vehicles on Swiss alpine roads
1920
- First multi-strand ribbon weaving machine
- Development of small arms discontinued
- 25 rifle and machine gun prototypes
1921
- First Saurer prototype weaving machine with upper warp beam
1925
- Saurer Repair Shops: Morges
1926
- B-type series
1927
- First Saurer loom types 4W & 5W
1928
- First license agreement with S.A. OM Fabbrica Bresciana Automobili, Brescia (I)
- Licensed production of aircraft engines – Japan: by Gnôme et Rhône
- From 1928, Saurer trucks were optionally equipped with gasoline or diesel engines
1929
- Majority stake in Motorwagenfabrik Berna AG, Olten (CH)
- Independent commercial vehicle brand BERNA continued
- Narrow fabric weaving machines single-tier type 24, multi-tier type 2 Bb
- Saurer repair shops: Zurich (1928), Basel (1932)
1931
- Schiffli embroidery machine type 2 S
1932
- Large diesel engines for railcars and stationary installations
- Licensed production of aircraft engines – Hispano-Suiza
1933
- Prototype bus with rear underfloor engine
1934
- C-type series
- Assembly of Chrysler passenger cars
- Production of gasoline engines discontinued
- Direct-injection diesel engine with Saurer dual-swirl system
- High-speed diesel engine for passenger cars
1934–1954
- Embroidery machine manufacturing shut down
1935
- First cab-over vehicles
- Saurer commercial vehicles in: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, England, Finland, France, Netherlands, Java, Italy, Canada, Morocco, Mexico, North America, Austria, Patagonia, Russia, Switzerland, Spain
- Postbus route 4C of the Swiss Alpine Post
- fully floating axle off-road vehicles for military purposes
- Global economic crisis and World War II force restriction of the commercial vehicle business to the Swiss market
1936
- SAURER 100 W weaving machine for light and medium-heavy fabrics
1939
- Narrow fabric weaving machines single-tier type 60 B, 50 B, 36 B, multi-tier type 22 Ba/8b
1940
- Diesel engines for power generator sets
1942
- Diesel railway engines up to 700 hp
1944
- Prototypes of four-stroke and 2,000-hp two-stroke aircraft engines
1947
- Aircraft engine development discontinued
1948
- SAURER 200 W weaving machine for heavy fabrics
1951
- Single-input tape weaving machine type 40 B
1952
- licensed production of aircraft engine assemblies
- Lightweight rear-engine tourer
- Mechanically supercharged engines
1955
- Resumption of production of the model 2 S-55 shuttle embroidery machine
- First articulated bus for the city of Zurich
- D series
- DC motors and underfloor motors
- Saurer Repair Shops: Chur
1959
- SAURER 100 W six-color weaving machine
- Four-wheel-drive trucks
1960
- Acquisition of Allgauer Maschinenbau GmbH (Saurer-Allma), Kempten (Germany)
- Large diesel engines Type S 6, 12, 16 cyl. 300–1600 hp
- Foundries in Arbon, Kempten, and from 1970 also in Bourgoin operate as an association
1962
- Turbo Department
- Gas turbine tests, aero-engine overhaul
1965
- SAURER 1040 High-Performance Embroidery Machine
- PENTAMAT Automatic Embroidery Machine Control
- DATAMAT Electronic Embroidery Machine Control
- Schiffli embroidery machine model S-55 with increased speed
- BERNA produces in association with SAURER
- articulated buses in mass production
- Narrow fabric weaving machines type 24 B-66, type 60 B-65
- Saurer repair shops: Chur (1965), Vezia (1966)
1966
- Acquisition of Gebrüder Nussbaum & Co., Langenfeld (FRG)
- bimetallic cylinder
1967
- bimetallic cylinder
1968
- BERNEX brand
- Gas turbine division discontinued
1970
- Majority stake in SAURER Diederichs S.A., Bourgoin (F)
- and to SAURER-Horeschy GmbH, Lustenau (A)
- Branche Stationär-motoren eingestellt
- Gemeinsame Verkaufsorganisation SAURER/BERNA
1971
- Verkauf des Bandwebmaschinen-Geschäftes an die Firma J. Müller AG, Frick/AG
- Saurer-Allma schliesst Giesserei
- BERNEX Oberflächenmetallurgie GmbH, Langenfeld (BRD)
1972
- Modellbau wird selbstständiger Geschäftsbereich
- Saurer überträgt Giesserei-Aktivität an vonRoll
1972/73
- TURBOSAR im Markt
1973
- Erzeugnisse der Spanntechnik zur Werkzeugautomation
1975
- Nutzfahrzeug-Marke BERNA eingestellt
- PTT-Busse: Kursautobusse, Stadtautobusse, Gelenkbusse, Reisebusse, Trolleybusse
- PTT-Busse-Baureihen: D 250 B, D 290 B/330 B, 4 DF/5 DF
1976
- Gasmotor D2KG
1977
- Übernahme der Sylvester & Company, Beachwood, Ohio (USA)
1978
- Gründung der Saurer-Corporation Textile Machinery, Greenville, S.C. (USA)
1980
- ALLMA-Zwirnmaschinen in Produkteprogramm aufgenommen
1982
- Entwicklung und Fabrikation von Saurer-Nutzfahrzeugen wird eingestellt und durch Beteiligungen an zwei in Arbon gegründeten Unternehmen der Schweizer Nutzfahrzeugindustrie abgelöst
- Reparaturwerkstätten: Arbon, Sion, Visp verbleiben bei Saurer
- Die Verkaufsorganisation Mercedes-Benz (Schweiz) übernimmt die Reparaturwerkstätten Basel, Bern, Chur, Olten, Vezia, Zürich
- IVECO (CH) übernimmt RW Morges
- Modell- und Formenbau
- TURBOSAR-Regelungen Wärmepumpen, TOTEM-Energiesystem
1984
- Übernahme der Markenrechte für Stickmaschinen System «Zangs»
- Punch 1080 Elektronische Punch-Anlagen
1985
- ALLMATIC Hochdruck-Maschinenschraubstöcke
- Ringzwirnmaschine AZB
- Doppeldrahtzwirnmaschine TM
- Hohlspindel-Effektzwirnmaschine