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The TRUMPF Group is one of the world's leading companies in production technology and medical technology. Three business divisions with five business fields form the TRUMPF Group. When it comes to machine tools for sheet metal processing TRUMPF is in a leading position worldwide. In lasers and laser systems the company is both the world market leader and the technology leader. The Group is present with more than 45 subsidiaries and holding companies in America, Asia, and most countries in Europe. Production takes place in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Taiwan, China and the USA. The TRUMPF Group has its headquarters in Ditzingen, located near Stuttgart, Germany.

Business divisions

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TRUMPF operates in a variety of markets. The business divisions are Machine Tool / Power Tool, Laser Technology / Electronics, and Medical Technology.

Sales By Region (2004/05) in Million Euro
Germany	422 (30%)
Europe (excluding Germany)	507 (36%)
America / Asia-Pacific	467 (33%)

Machine and power tool

The core business are machine tools for flexible sheet metal processing: punching and forming, laser processing and bending. Standardized system components enable automated production solutions. This wide spectrum of stationary machines is rounded off by portable power tools for sheet metal working.

Laser technology and electronics

TRUMPF is the world market and technology LEADER in lasers and laser systems for manufacturing technology. The product range comprises laser systems for cutting, welding and laser forming of 3-D-parts, high-powered CO2 lasers as well as lamp- and diode-pumped solid-state lasers, marking lasers and 3D-systems. The industrial electronics sector comprises high-frequency and medium-frequency generators for inductive heating of a wide variety of materials, for surface coating, by means of plasma technology and for CO2 laser excitation.

Medical technology

In medical technology, TRUMPF offers operating tables, surgical lights and ceiling-mounted equipment management systems.

History

Beginning

In 1923 Christian Trumpf and two partners acquire Julius Geiger GmbH, a machine shop in Stuttgart, Germany. The company's first product were flexible shafts. With the invention of the motor drive they were also produced and distributed for industrial purposes – for the machining of metal and wood. Growth of the firm necessitates a move to larger production premises. In 1933 the company moves to the Stuttgart suburb of Weilimdorf. During World War II, TRUMPF continues with the production of electric shears and flexible shafts. The production buildings remain undamaged.

Economic boom in Germany

In 1950 the company has 145 employees and its sales now exceed the one-million mark. Ten years later 325 work for the company and sales raise over eleven million DM. Stationary machines make the company gradually increase in size and go global: in 1963 TRUMPF founds its first foreign company in Zug, Switzerland.

Ditzingen into the world

In 1968 TRUMPF presents with the TRUMATIC 20 the first sheet metal fabrication machine with numerical contouring control system. It enables fully automatic work at the machine, right down to tool changes, for the very first time. All the information required to machine workpieces is stored on perforated computer tape. The TRUMATIC 20 causes a sensation at the 11th European Machine Tool Exhibition in Paris.

One year later the company founds a U.S. subsidiary in Farmington, Conn. Today Farmington has become the second-largest TRUMPF location worldwide, and the headquarters for the entire U.S. market. In 1972 TRUMPF moves to Ditzingen. In 1978 Berthold Leibinger becomes managing partner of the company. TRUMPF steadily continues to grow and in the same year the Japanese subsidiary is founded.

World of laser

At the end of the 1970th the laser establishes as a manifold and flexible tool for sheet metal processing. Berthold Leibinger recognizes the potential of this technology and pushes the development in this area. In 1985 TRUMPF decides to make its own CO2 laser, and the TRUMPF LASER TLF 1000 is manufactured. It has 1 kW of beam performance and is the first compact laser resonator with RF-excitation. Innovations in laser development that follow within the next few years make it necessary to found a new company specializing in lasers, and TRUMPF Lasertechnik GmbH is formed.

In 1992 TRUMPF's activities in the solid-state laser sector begin with its participation in the firm of Haas Laser GmbH in Schramberg. The company is now 100-percent owned by the TRUMPF Group. On November 20, 1998, TRUMPF opens a new laser factory at the headquarters in Ditzingen to strengthen the German production location.

In 2005 a new era dawns at TRUMPF. On November 18, after 40 years leading the company, Professor Berthold Leibinger resigns from his position as President of the TRUMPF Group. He moves to the Supervisory Board of the Group and assumes the chairmanship there. His daughter Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller becomes the new President of the Group.

In fiscal year 2004/05 the company gains sales of 1.4 Billion Euro. 6.100 work for TRUMPF.

Figures

• Sales: 1.4 Billion Euro;
• 6,100 employees, about 3,800 of them in Germany

2004/05 Source:TRUMPF Homepage

• Sales: 1.22 Billion Euro;
• Employees: 5,790

2003/04 Source:TRUMPF Homepage

• Sales: 1.19 Billion Euro;
• Employees: 5,764

2002/03 Source:TRUMPF Homepage

External links

• [TRUMPF Group]
• [TRUMPF Inc.]

 

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