Starrag
| Starrag Group Holding AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0002361068 |
| founding | 1897 |
| Seat |
Rorschacherberg SG Switzerland
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| management | Christian Walti ( Management ) Walter Fust ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 1516 |
| sales | 388.8 million CHF (2018) |
| Branch | Machine tool construction , machining technology |
| Website | www.starrag.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Starrag Group , based in Rorschacherberg, is an internationally active Swiss industrial company specializing in cutting precision machine tools . The group of companies employs over one and a half thousand people at nine production sites in Switzerland, Germany, France, Great Britain and India and sells its products under ten brands. The Starrag Group is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange SWX Swiss Exchange listed .
history
Starrag
The company was founded in Rorschach in 1887 as a sole proprietorship for the manufacture of threading machines for the textile industry . From 1901 this was called the Henri Levy Mechanical Workshop . After a textile crisis broke out in eastern Switzerland when the First World War broke out in 1914 , the workshop began manufacturing turret and parallel lathes in 1917 . From 1920 the company built rigid milling machines and renamed itself Starrfräsmaschinen AG Henri Levy in 1921 and Starrfräsmaschinen AG in 1925 . In 1936 the company began producing copy milling machines , which are used in turbine , aircraft and mold construction. Between 1936 and 1945 the company mainly worked for defense technology .
In the post-war years, Starrfräsmaschinen AG established itself in its field with the world's first 5-axis milling machine and employed around 1,200 people in the early 1960s.
In 1998 the company went public. In the same year Starrfräsmaschinen AG took over Heckert Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH in Chemnitz and changed its company name to STARRAG . In 2000 the company set up a holding structure under the umbrella of StarragHeckert Holding AG. In 2005 and 2006, the majority control of the English Toolroom Technology Limited as well as all activities of Société d'Instruments de Précision SA (SIP) followed.
In January 2011 StarragHeckert took over the machine tool manufacturer DS Technologie , consisting of Dörries, Scharmann, Droop + Rein, Ecospeed and Berthiez from the insolvent A-Tec Industries . As a result, the name was changed to Starrag Group in 2012. At the end of May 2012, the Starrag Group acquired the Swiss machine manufacturer Bumotec SA , which mainly produces machines for the watch industry.
Heckert
In 1885, the Chemnitz Velociped-Depôt Winklhofer & Jaenicke was founded as a bicycle manufacturer, which later became the Wanderer-Werke AG , based in Schönau . This began in 1899 with the series production of milling machines. From 1902 it also manufactured motorcycles, from 1904 typewriters ( Continental ), from 1911 small cars and from 1916 calculating machines. In 1914, Wanderer and his 3000 employees had to switch to a war economy.
The modern Wanderer vehicle factory in the Chemnitz suburb of Siegmar , which was only put into operation in 1927, was taken over by Auto Union in 1932 . In 1932 Wanderer was the largest milling machine and at the same time largest office machine factory in Europe with a workforce of approx. 5000 employees. In 1944, the factory in Siegmar-Schönau (now Chemnitz-Schönau ) , which had 9,000 employees by then, was almost completely destroyed by air raids. In 1946, however, production was resumed under improvised conditions.
In 1968 the VEB machine tool combine " Fritz Heckert " was founded in the Siegmar district . Among the 21 machine tool factories included in it, the former Wanderer factories formed the main company. This grew to 4,300 employees until the reunification of Germany in 1989, making it the largest machine tool factory in the Eastern Bloc . The Heckert machines were sold all over the world under the WMW brand . In 1971 the world's first flexible manufacturing system was put into operation in Karl-Marx-Stadt .
In 1990, under the leadership of the Treuhandanstalt Berlin, Heckert Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH was founded, which was taken over by Traub AG in 1993 . After the bankruptcy of this parent company, Heckert Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH , which now had only 200 employees, was re-established in 1997, which was taken over by Starrfräsmaschinen AG a year later.
The VEB "Fritz-Heckert" plant in Karl-Marx-Stadt
The work from a different perspective
Shift change (1968)
Engineers inspecting a machine (1952)
Workers creating standard cards (1953)
Flexible manufacturing system (1989)
Heckert factory in Chemnitz, left the old factory (from 1944), right the new factory (from 1970)
Société genevoise d'instruments de physique (SIP)
The company was founded by the two Geneva scholars Auguste de la Rive and Marc Thury in 1862 as a Société pour la construction d'instruments de physique for the manufacture of scientific instruments. From 1870, the company dealt with new forms of energy use and manufactured precision rulers . In 1889 she received one of 12 platinum-iridium copies of the original meter in Paris.
In 1921, the Machine à pointer jig boring machine was the first machine tool to go into series production. This machine allowed accuracies in the μm range for the first time and made the company one of the most respected machine builders in Europe. In 1969 around 1,600 people were employed.
From 1970 onwards, SIP was not able to adapt to the economic changes in the branch. After moving from Plainpalais to Satigny in 1990 , the company only had around forty employees in 2006. In the same year it was bought by StarragHeckert.
Dörries Scharmann
Dörries was founded in Vussem in 1884 and Scharmann in Rheydt in 1885 . The initially independent companies became world-famous for their machine tools in the following 100 years. In 1988 both companies merged under the umbrella of the Voith Group. After five years under Bremer Vulkan and its bankruptcy, the new Dörries Scharmann AG with Droop & Rein and the French machine tool manufacturer Berthiez was continued as the new Dörries Scharmann GmbH and a year later as DS Technologie as part of a management buyout . In 2004 the company was renamed Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH . In 2007 the industrial holding company A-Tec Industries bought the company from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG . In the course of the insolvency of A-Tec Industries, the Dörries Scharmann Group came to StarragHeckert in 2011. In the meantime, Dörries and Scharmann are again managed as individual brands under the umbrella of the Starrag Group.
Droop + pure
The Droop & Rein machine tool factory was founded in Bielefeld in 1890 by Theodor Droop and the Chemnitz engineer Ernst Rein to manufacture special machines and heavy machine tools. In 1892 the factory was expanded to include a foundry and from then on it was called Droop & Rein machine tool factory and iron foundry . In 1896 a large assembly hall was added. In 1910 Ernst Rein became the sole owner of the company. In the Third Reich he resisted a deployment of the NSDAP in his plant and was therefore temporarily banned from operating, and it was switched to arms production. After the Second World War , the destroyed plant was rebuilt under British approval.
In 1990 the company was taken over as Droop + Rein together with Dörries, Scharmann and Schiess AG by the Vulkan Group under the common name Dörries Scharmann AG .
Berthiez
The Berthiez company was founded in 1916 by Charles Berthiez in Paris as a machine tool manufacturer. From 1943, parts of the Fives-Lille production facilities in Givors were leased to meet the increasing demand for production capacity.
In the 1960s the company got into a crisis and had to make massive staff cuts. In 1968 it merged with the Compagnie Normande de Mécanique de Précision (CNMP), a 100% subsidiary of the Société Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation ( SNECMA ). In 1983 the company, which specializes in vertical lathes and grinding machines, was sold to Machines Françaises Lourdes (MFL) and relocated completely to Saint-Étienne under the name Berthiez-Saint-Étienne .
In 1996 Dörries Scharmann GmbH took over the company.
Field of activity
The Starrag Group develops, manufactures and sells precision milling machines with 4 to 5 NC axes for small to large workpieces, vertical lathes for large components, lathes and grinding machines, associated software packages , special tools and offers engineering and process optimization solutions . These are used in aviation, power generation, transport and precision engineering.
The products are sold under the following brands:
| brand | Machines / products |
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| Starrag | 5-axis horizontal milling machining centers |
| Heckert | 4- and 5-axis horizontal milling machining centers |
| Dörries | Vertical lathes |
| Scharmann | Horizontal milling machining centers, drilling and milling machines |
| Ecospeed | Simultaneous 5-axis machining centers |
| SIP | 3- to 5-axis ultra-precision milling centers and jig boring mills |
| Droop + pure | Large machining centers in portal design |
| Berthiez | Turning and grinding machines |
| WMW | 4-axis horizontal milling machining centers |
| TTL | Software solutions for milling |
| Bumotec | Milling and turning machines for very small components in watch, jewelry and medical technology |
The group has production sites in Rorschacherberg / Switzerland (Starrag), Chemnitz / Germany (Heckert), Geneva / Switzerland (SIP), Mönchengladbach / Germany (Dörries, Scharmann, EcoSpeed), Bielefeld / Germany (Droop + Rein), St. Etienne / France (Berthiez), Haddenham / UK (TTL), Ichtershausen (Dörries Scharmann), Bangalore (WMW) and Sâles / Switzerland (Bumotec) as well as via sales and service centers in China (Shanghai and Beijing), USA (Cincinnati, Dallas and Seattle), Italy, France, Great Britain, India, Russia, and Turkey.
Shareholders
- Chairman of Walter Fust 55.2%
- Eduard Stürm AG 9.2%
- Max Rössler / Parmino Holding AG 8%
- Remaining free float
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Peter Müller: Levy, Henri. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- The Fritz-Heckert-Kombinat on historical Chemnitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Starrag key figures, accessed on May 18, 2019
- ↑ www.starragheckert.com: Takeover of the German Dörries Scharmann completed. January 19, 2011, archived from the original on January 18, 2012 ; Retrieved January 21, 2011 .
- ↑ a b www.starragheckert.com: History. Archived from the original on August 24, 2011 ; Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ↑ www.starrag.com: History 2012. Accessed June 11, 2012 .
- ↑ VDI: Timeline for the development of handicrafts, manufacture, industry. (PDF) p. 11 , accessed on January 18, 2019 .
- ^ Historical Chemnitz: The Fritz Heckert Combine. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Computerwoche: 150 flexible manufacturing systems already in operation, but the CIM projects in the GDR still require a lot of time. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ^ Bénédict Frommel: Société genevoise d'instruments de physique (SIP). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 22, 2010 , accessed March 8, 2011 .
- ↑ www.ds-technologie.de: History. Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ^ Rein CNC-Service GmbH: history. Retrieved March 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Archives ouvertes: Les chemins de la recherche. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Retrieved March 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Starrag - Ecospeed. In: www.starrag.com. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Shareholder structure. Starrag, accessed May 18, 2019