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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.

Auf den Tag genau, zwei Jahre nach der offiziellen Eröffnung, hat das GROB-Werk im chinesischen Dalian die 100ste Maschine, eine GA350 ausgeliefert. Eine respektable Leistung wenn man bedenkt, dass der ursprüngliche Businessplan aus dem Jahr 2011 von insgesamt 52 Maschinen bis Juni 2014 ausging.…

On 30 April 2014, the Volkswagen plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin reached an impressive milestone. After only four years, the two millionth DQ200 automatic gearbox left the factory. The DQ200 is put together on two assembly lines equipped with GROB machinery. The first line was supplied in 2009…

With outstanding vocational school grades, both Julia Lang and Joshua Wilbiller have made it to the very top in their specialist training fields. Julia actually completed each professional school year with an average grade at the highest possible level of 1.0. And for his superb achievements in…