Chiron works
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | June 18, 1921 |
| Seat | Tuttlingen , Germany |
| management | Dr. Claus Eppler Vanessa Hellwing Bernd Hilgarth Dr. Guido Spachtholz |
| Number of employees | 970 (2015) |
| sales | EUR 282 million (2014) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.chiron.de |
| Status: October 22, 2018 | |
The Chiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KG is a company of the metal and engineering industry and our one of the largest and most important companies in Tuttlingen . In the past, the Chiron works produced a wide variety of goods, such as B. surgical instruments, automobiles or compressed air equipment. Today the company specializes in the mechanical engineering and CNC segment.
history
The Chiron works were founded on June 18, 1921 by Gottfried Schnell and Otto Staebler under the name "Fabriken feinmechanischer Apparate und surgical instruments GmbH". Six months later the company got its current name Chiron . In Greek mythology, this denotes a demigod in the form of a centaur , who was considered wise, fair, immortal and very dexterous. This name was chosen to stand up to the Aesculap company, which already existed at that time , because in Greek mythology Chiron is the teacher of Asklepios .
In 1940 the Chiron works moved to the area in Talstrasse, where they are still located today. With the FZ 32, the Chiron-Werke launched their first manufacturing center in 1977 . But it wasn't until 1982 that the international breakthrough came with what was then the world's fastest vertical manufacturing center: the FZ 16 , equipped with a Franz Kessler motor spindle . The invention for the basket changer contained in the FZ 16 comes from the engineer Eugen Rütschle . After this revolutionary progress in the CNC manufacturing center industry, the Chiron-Werke specialized more and more in machine tool construction and ended the long-term production of other production divisions, such as compressed air equipment and blower production .
Companies
The Chiron-Werke have been part of the Hoberg & Driesch Group since 1957 . This consists of the plants of Chiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KG in Tuttlingen and Neuhausen ob Eck as well as their branches in France , Italy , Poland , Russia , India and China and the USA . In the boom year of 2000, the Chiron works achieved record sales of DM 427 million with more than 1,000 production centers. Today the Chiron plants employ 930 people, of which over 12% are trainees . The company has an export rate of 60%.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ CHIRON Werke GmbH & Co. KG: First choice even after 35 years. In: en.industryarena.com. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Hans-Henning Winkler, Eugen Rütschle: Machine-tool . April 27, 1994 ( freepatentsonline.com [accessed October 14, 2016]).
- ↑ admin: "Timeless" masterpiece | Zerspanungstechnik.de. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
- ^ Homepage of the Chiron-Werke; Retrieved January 5, 2011
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 8 ° 49 ′ 4.6 ″ E