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Over the last three years GROB Systems have implemented a truly remarkable investment program: an additional 30 percent more production space and new machines with a total investment of over US $15 million, an output increase of $40 million to a total of over $150 million in just under three years.…

At the end of 2012 GROB was awarded the Volvo Car Cooperation's (VCC) Volvo Cars Quality Excellence Award (VQE) in recognition of its exceptional and reliable contribution to the VEA project (Volvo Environmental Architecture). Every year Volvo presents this accolade to its best partners and…

Start of production in March, the official opening of the plant in June and then delivery of the first, entirely Dalian-built machine in November –GROB Dalian is just one of the many fine examples of GROB's outstanding progress over recent years and represents a significant element in the group's…

Looking back and celebrating was the focus of this year's anniversary ceremony in Mindelheim held to honor the proud 147 employees who have served GROB for either 10, 25 or 40 years. But employees elsewhere on the globe are also honored this year. In Brazil, there are no fewer than 69 and in…

With the completion at end of August 2012 of the second phase of the 25,000-sq.yd Hall 9 at GROB's Mindelheim plant, a new center for the business side of the company's universal machine was created. The center is for GROB employees involved with all aspects of the universal machine –from trials and…

On September 22, after the IMTS in Chicago and the AMB in Stuttgart, back-to-back trade fairs lasting two weeks came to an end. The two fairs, both biennial, reflect not just the current state of the technology in the machine tool industry, they also serve as a bellwether for the whole industry…

With the GROB Group growing rapidly, the company needs a well-trained and motivated workforce; in the past our staff has generally been recruited from a pool of home-grown trainees. In order to attract committed young people to our plant in Mindelheim, GROB's training express team is facing up to…

On June 18, 2012, in Dalian (in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning), in front of 400 invited guests and co-workers, GROB's fourth production plant was formally opened. This ultra-modern site, including a 12,000 sq.m production hall and a multi-storey office block, was built on a plot of…

While the Feira de Mecânica trade fair was taking place in Sao Paolo, GROB do Brasil was welcoming guests to the first workshop on "Innovative Technologies in 5-axis Machining", thereby marking the start of its 2012 sales offensive on stand-alone machines. The workshop had an overwhelmingly positive…

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.