Trumpf

Trump is one of the world's largest suppliers of machine tools. With 56 operating subsidiaries, the Group is represented almost everywhere in Europe, in North and South America and Asia. Production sites are located in Germany, China, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Singapore, the Czech Republic and the USA.

  • 2.1 beginnings
  • 2.2 economic miracle
  • 2.3 World Market
  • 2.4 laser
  • 2.5 generation

Business

Under the umbrella of a management holding company, Trumpf GmbH Co. KG four divisions of the three areas are machine tools, Laser Technology / Electronics and Medical summarized.

Machine Tools

Core business are machinery and equipment for metal processing. Trump makes machines for punching, forming and bending, as well as for laser processing and combined punching and laser processing.

Power Tools

Power tools for cutting, forming and joining of sheet metal are mainly used in construction, air handling units or recycling.

Laser Technology

The product range includes laser systems for cutting and welding two - and three-dimensional parts, carbon dioxide laser and lamp and diode pumped solid state lasers, marking lasers and systems. The lasers are used for example in the automotive industry, medical technology, sheet metal production as well as in the electronics and photovoltaic industries.

Electronics

For industrial electronics include high and medium frequency generators, as they are needed, for example for the production of flat panel displays. They are used for inductive heating of the material, surface coating and processing by means of plasma technology, as well as for laser excitation.

Medical

In medical technology offers trump operating tables and surgical lighting, and ceiling pendants, lighting concepts, Carts and solutions for patient transport.

History

In 1923, Christian Trumpf acquired together with two partners, the mechanical workshop Julius Geiger GmbH in Stuttgart. The company introduced flexible shafts ago that used to come among others, metal working machines, and motorized hand shears for cutting sheet metal. The company moved in 1933 to the Stuttgart suburb Weilimdorf to. Stocking employed about twenty French forced laborers during the war. The production facilities survived the war years undamaged.

Economic miracle

Stationary Machines for sheet metal processing were in the postwar period, a main component of the product range. 1950 employed 145 employees stocking and sales for the first time exceeded one million D-Mark. Ten years later there were 325 employees and 11 million DM turnover. In 1963, the company in Baar, Switzerland, in the canton train the first foreign company.

World market

In 1968, with the trump TRUMATIC 20, the first sheet processing machine with numerical control system here. Apart from this machine tool changes allowed for a fully automated workflow. All information on the processing of the workpiece are stored on paper tape.

A year later, the company created a subsidiary in Farmington, Connecticut, in the United States. Farmington has become the second largest location of the company headquarters and for the entire U.S. market. 1972 Trump moved its headquarters to Ditzingen. In 1978 Berthold Leibinger Managing Partner and founded in the same year a subsidiary in Japan.

Laser

In 1985, Trump had with the LASER TLF 1000 at its own CO2 laser. It has a beam power of about 1 kW and is the first compact laser resonator with RF excitation. 1988 Trumpf Laser GmbH is founded.

1992 start the activities in solid-state lasers with the participation at Haas Laser GmbH in Schramberg. The company is now 100% owned by Trump Group. At the headquarters Ditzingen a new laser factory was inaugurated on 20 November 1998.

Generational change

2005, shortly before his 75th birthday, Berthold Leibinger resigned after 40 years of the management. His daughter Nicola Leibinger- Kammüller became the new chairman of the board. For line of business includes her husband Matthias Kammüller and her brother Peter Leibinger.

Key figures of the Trump Group

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