Current NEWS
April 2012 - GROB wins two best supplier awards
GROB has picked up two prestigious awards in just six weeks -the General Motors Breakthrough and Innovations Award and the Daimler Supplier Award. In the light of the enormous effort we have put into achieving growth, the company is very proud of this recognition.
March 2012 - GROB continues on growth path
• 2011 orders at all-time high of approx. 1.3 billion euros
• Consolidated total output for the group in 2011/12 valued at 650 million euros
• All plants at capacity until the end of 2013
• High equity-to-assets ratio of over 40 percent
• Investment largely funded from own resources and from cash flow
February 2012 - GROB and General Motors to form a long-term partnership
Under a new framework agreement, General Motors and GROB are to work together for the next four years. The deal will cover all new GM engine block projects over that period. Signed on 29 February, the contract clarifies -on a global basis -the terms and conditions, such as payment details, number of modules and supplying countries. Worth several hundred million euros, in terms of sales it is the most valuable agreement of its kind in GROB’s history.
January 2012 - GROB premieres at NORTEC in Hamburg
For the first time, GROB - in co-operation with its distribution partner Rex Machine Tool Sales - exhibited at NORTEC, the manufacturing technology trade fair in Hamburg. Between 25 and 28 January more than 10,000 visitors passed through the doors of this important regional fair in northern Germany.
December 2011 - GROB’s customer training division now a certified training partner
GROB Mindelheim and Siemens AG have agreed a forward-looking partnership deal, which will regulate their joint training activities for the next two years. As a result of this new collaboration, GROB’s customer training division can now call itself a “certified Siemens CNC training partner”.