United Grinding Group
| United Grinding Group Management AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat |
Bern , Switzerland
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| management | Stephan Nell (Chairman), Heinz Poklekowski |
| Number of employees | 2,500 (2019) |
| sales | 700 million CHF (2019) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.grinding.ch |
The United Grinding Group , formerly Körber Schleifring , is an international mechanical engineering company. The companies in the group produce grinding, laser and eroding machines for hard fine machining and the associated services, and the United Grinding Group, with its eight corporate brands, is one of the world market leaders.
history
In 1978 Hauni AG (later Körber AG ) took over the Hamburg grinding machine manufacturer Blohm, and in 1993 the international Schleifring Group was formed under the umbrella of Körber Schleifring GmbH. In addition to the Berliner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH (BWF), the Chemnitz grinding machine factory, Schaudt Maschinenbau GmbH and Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH, the group also included the two Swiss companies Mägerle AG Maschinenfabrik and Fritz Studer AG.
Further expansions followed. In 1994 the Chinese sales and service office in Beijing and the American sales and service company (UGT) were opened. The Schleifring offices in Shanghai followed in 1995 and in Chongqing in 1997 .
In 2004 the Körber Schleifring Machinery Co. Ltd. (KSMT) in Taicang, China and integrated the machine tool business of Walter AG with the establishment of Walter Maschinenbau GmbH (2004). Due to the increasing internationalization of Körber Schleifring GmbH, the company changed its name in 2012 and became the United Grinding Group based in Bern, Switzerland. In 2018, the United Grinding Group was sold by Körber AG to a strategically oriented pool of investors organized by BZ Bank Aktiengesellschaft. In the 2017 financial year, the group generated sales of around EUR 610 million at more than 20 locations and with more than 2,400 employees.
Corporate structure
The group consists of three technology areas:
- Surface and profile grinding
- Mägerle AG Maschinenfabrik, CH-Fehraltorf
- Blohm Jung GmbH, DE-Hamburg
- Cylindrical grinding
- Fritz Studer AG , CH-Thun
- Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH, DE-Leipzig
- Tool grinding
- Walter Maschinenbau GmbH, DE-Tübingen
- Ewag AG, CH-Etziken
United Grinding North America, Inc., based in Miamisburg, and United Grinding (Shanghai) Ltd. based in Shanghai as well as United Grinding GmbH India Branch Office and United Grinding GmbH Moscow Office operate the operative business for the three technology groups in the four countries.
See also
Web links
- United Grinding Group
- Company history Mikrosa
- Company history United Grinding
- Company history Schaudt
- Studer company history
- Company history Körber
- Company history Walter
- Company history Ewag
- Company history Mägerle
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b company portrait. United Grinding Group, accessed May 31, 2020 .