Niles-Simmons industrial plants
| NILES-SIMMONS Industrieanlagen GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1992 |
| Seat | Chemnitz |
| management | Hans J. Naumann |
| Number of employees | 1280 (NSH group worldwide) |
| sales | approx. € 275 million (2010) |
| Branch | Machine tool manufacturing |
| Website | http://www.niles-simmons.de |
The Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH is part of the Niles-Simmons Hegenscheidt Group, headquartered in Chemnitz , is 2,008 claims to the 35 largest machine tool manufacturers in the world.
The company Niles Tool Works was founded in 1833 by brothers James and Jonathan Niles in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA). The German branch Deutsche Niles-Werke AG Berlin (today Niles Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH ) was founded in 1898 by the Niles-Bement-Pond Tool Company . In 1930 the Chemnitz lathe manufacturer Escher was taken over . In 1945 the NBP was taken over by Chandler-Evans (later Coltec Industries ). The Chemnitz branch was expropriated in 1950 and made public property. Under the name of large lathe construction “8. Mai “ the company developed into one of the largest lathes manufacturers in the RGW area and was renamed in 1990 as a company of the Treuhandanstalt to Niles lathe GmbH . In 1992 the owner of the American company, Hans J. Naumann , founded the Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH in Chemnitz, which bought the Niles lathe GmbH from the trust. In 2001 the Hegenscheidt company in the Rhineland was taken over and the Niles-Simmons-Hegenscheidt Group was founded.
See also
Web links
- Niles-Simmons website
- Contents of the book From Escher to Niles-Simmons - 140 Years of Lathe Construction in Chemnitz (1874 - 2014) .
literature
- Naumann, Hans J .; Müller, Klaus (Ed.): From Escher to Niles-Simmons - 140 years of lathe engineering in Chemnitz (1874–2014). Heimatland Sachsen GmbH Chemnitz, Chemnitz, 2014, ISBN 978-3-910186-91-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company anniversary 180 years of NILES. Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH, December 2013, accessed on April 21, 2017 .