USM was founded in Münsingen, Switzerland in 1885 by Ulrich Schärer. In the beginning they worked with iron and locks, but Paul Schärer instructed the Swiss architect Fritz Haller to design a new building for the factory in 1961. The modular architecture of Haller inspired them both to create flexible storage solutions with the same system. Thus the modular system with the name USM Haller was born in 1963, innovative the world over.