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The new technical school in Mindelheim has been completed in the record time of two years. The ambitious project was made possible by a generous donation by our Company’s owner, Dr. Burkhart Grob, on the occasion of the visit of the Bavarian State Premier Horst Seehofer at the beginning of March…

The “Supplier of the Year Silver Award” from Shanghai General Motors (SGM) in Shanghai, “GP Progressive Partner Award” from FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun, “Intec Prize” for the innovating G-Net application concept at the intec in Leipzig, and now “Supplier of the Year Award” from General Motors in…

Since the end of last year GROB-WERKE has had a presence on YouTube with its own channel. Technical videos showing machining of various materials as well as videos of the latest processing centers for the automotive industry can be found on the Company’s YouTube page. This is a another important…

Within a month, GROB-WERKE has been honored with two special awards for its outstanding achievements in China, its highly important export market. For the third time in a row they have received the “Supplier of the Year Award” from Shanghai General Motors (SGM), and for the first time they have been…

In September of last year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) approved the SOPHIE joint research project for the framework program “Virtual Technologies for the Factory of the Future” which should contribute to the future-oriented project “Industry 4.0”. The core of the…

The GROB Group was proud to receive from the Ford Motor Company the prestigious "Award of Recognition" for their innovative ideas and forward-looking development of solutions for the maintenance of GROB systems at Ford's Dagenham plant in the UK. The "Certificate of Achievement" highlighted the…

The AMB and IMTS concluded an extremely successful year of trade fairs for GROB-WERKE in 2014. Over 200,000 visitors to both fairs have amply demonstrated the significance of the IMTS as the leading trade show in America and the importance of the AMB as one of the five largest machine tool trade…

With a total of 64 trainees, more young people than ever before have started a new year of training with GROB. Three of them are female. A new option on the training program is the profession of cutting machine operator, specializing in milling. They will all be able to move into the new GROB…

After a tragic airplane crash at the end of July in which Ralf Bronnenmeier, CEO of GROB Systems in Bluffton, perished, Michael Hutecker has assumed company management. Over thirty years ago Hutecker started his professional career at GROB do Brasil, and for more than 15 years was a member of the…

Russia, Poland and the People’s Republic of China were the stations of an intensive six-week trade fair rallye for GROB-WERKE starting in mid-May. Metalloobrabotka in Moscow, Mach-Tool in Posen and CIMES in Beijing were successful trade show platforms for GROB universal machines in growing markets.