Grob works
| GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1926 |
| Seat | Mindelheim , Germany |
| management | German Wankmiller; Wolfram Weber; Christian Mueller |
| Number of employees | approx. 6,600 worldwide |
| sales | approx. EUR 1.3 billion worldwide |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.grobgroup.com |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Grob-Werke GmbH & Co. KG is the holding company of coarse Group . The family company operates in the machine tool sector. The plant is headquartered in Mindelheim in Upper Swabia in the Unterallgäu district .
history
The Grob-Werke were founded in 1926 by Ernst Grob in Munich . Burkhart Grob (* 1926; † May 20, 2016) headed the company from 1952 . Initially, the focus was on the production of internal combustion engines and machine tools . In 1956 the first foreign plant was founded in São Paulo (Brazil). The plant in Mindelheim was built in 1968, and the manufacture of transfer lines began there .
Corporate structure
Until 2006, the Grob-Werke consisted of the independent machine tools and aerospace sectors . The aerospace division was sold in 2006 and then traded as Grob Aerospace AG , and since 2009 as Grob Aircraft AG . The Mindelheim location has been the main factory of Grob-Werke since 1976 and therefore also the main headquarters. The Mindelheim plant has a production area of more than 180,000 m 2 .
Machine tools
The company has in addition to the main plant Mindelheim production facilities in Bluffton (Ohio) ( United States ), Dalian ( China ), Sao Paulo ( Brazil ) and Buttigliera Alta ( Italy ) and provides machining centers and assembly equipment and linking systems for production and assembly lines here. Our specialty is the planning and creation of complete production systems for engines , vehicle transmissions , injection pumps and the like. This makes Grob a supplier to the automotive industry and its suppliers worldwide.
Locations
- Grob-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Mindelheim
- B. Grob do Brasil SA (since 1956), São Paulo , Brazil
- Grob Systems, Inc. (since 1983), Bluffton (Ohio) , United States
- Grob Machine Tools UK Ltd. (since 1990), Warwickshire , England
- Grob Mexico SA de CV (since 2000), Saltillo , Mexico
- Grob Machine Tools (China) Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch (since 2003), Beijing , People's Republic of China
- Grob Korea Co. Ltd. (since 2005), Seoul , South Korea
- Grob Machine Tools (China) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch (since 2005), Shanghai , People's Republic of China
- Grob Machine Tools India Pvt. Ltd. (since 2009), Hyderabad (India) , India
- Grob Russ-Masch GmbH (since 2011), Moscow , Russia
- Grob Machine Tools (China) CO. Ltd. (since 2011), Dalian , People's Republic of China
- Grob Hungaria Kft. (Since 2012), Győr , Hungary
- Grob Italy Srl (since 2015), Buttigliera Alta , Italy
- Grob Polska Sp. Z oo (since 2015), Poznan , Poland
- Grob Systems, Inc. (since 2016), Troy (Michigan) , United States
- Grob Italy Srl (formerly DMG meccanica, since 2017), Turin , Italy
- Grob Benelux BV (since 2018), SH Hengelo , Netherlands
- Grob Schweiz AG (since 2018), Steinhausen , Switzerland
- Grob France SARL, Senlis , France
- Grob Vietnam LLC, Hải Phòng , Vietnam
- Grob Japan KK, Yokohama , Japan
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burkhart Grob , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/2007 of March 10, 2007, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- ^ Obituary by Burkhart Grob in the Handelsblatt , May 23, 2016, accessed on May 24, 2016
- ↑ The Mindelheim location grows to 180,000 m² of production space. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 23.3 " N , 10 ° 29 ′ 58.2" E