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At the end of March the proprietor and chief of GROB-WERKE, Dr. Burkhart Grob, celebrated his 90th birthday. GROB-WERKE, founded in Munich by the father of the current owner in 1926, has likewise turned 90. In addition, the plant in São Paulo can look back on 60 years of history.

After more than five years at GROB WERKE in Dalian, China, including four years as plant manager at GROB Dalian, Eugen Nägele is handing over the reins to his successor, Werner Müller. With nearly forty years of service, Werner Müller is a seasoned GROB veteran who will continue and build on his…

Four "best in class" and a state prize winner: They are the current accolades achieved by GROB apprentices in the 2015/2016 academic year, once again demonstrating the high quality of vocational training at GROB. The distinctions were awarded on January 29, 2016 at the college leavers awards…

For the third time in a row GROB-WERKE was recognized by SAIC-General Motors Co., Ltd (SGM) in China as “Supplier of the Year”, honoring “excellent support in achieving SGM corporate goals ...” as well as “the high engagement of GROB-WERKE in project collaboration”.

The sales meeting “UM Training Days” at GROB in Bluffton, the “Die & Mold Workshop” at GROB in Dalian, the NORTEC machine tool trade fair in Hamburg during the last week in January all added up to a good start for GROB-WERKE in the new year.

Expanding its sales organization, GROB has established an additional sales and service subsidiary, GROB Italia. Together with SIMU, GROB’s long-term Italian agency, the ninth GROB sales and service branch worldwide will be founded in Turin.

At the EMO in Milan, GROB is presenting the second generation of universal machines – the focal point of an entire spectrum of technical innovations. The GROB universal machine product portfolio has been supplemented with a new rotary pallet storage system featuring up to thirteen pallet storage…

GROB-WERKE starts the new training year with a record number of apprentices. 111 young people will start their training in the four GROB plants in Mindelheim/Germany, Bluffton/USA, São Paulo/Brazil and Dalian/PRC.

As one of the few companies in the powertrain segment, Volkswagen has named GROB as a strategic partner in the new “FAST” initiative. From among over 10,000 suppliers, the 44 best future-oriented companies were chosen with which the Volkswagen Group is seeking to utilize future cooperation at a new…

The first GROB aerospace seminar, held in the new Technology and Applications Center in Mindelheim was a great success. During this two-day event at the beginning of May, more than fifty participants from eleven countries were able to learn about the potential applications of the GROB 5-axis…