News - GROB-WERKE

2020-08-31 GROB is a pioneering partner of the new Industrial Cloud from Volkswagen

With ten other pioneering partners, GROB is contributing to Volkswagen AG‘s Industrial Cloud (IC) in creating an open platform for next-generation solutions in digital production and logistics together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their integration partner Siemens... Go to press info

2020-03-17 GROB receives another SAIC-GM Award

At the beginning of this year, GROB was honored to receive SAIC-GM's Special Contribution Supplier Award for the second time. This prominent award in China underlines the excellent cooperation between GROB and SAIC-GM... Go to press info

2020-01-08 GROB China's Open House Offensive 2019 successfully concluded

Two Open House Events in Dalian, China, two Open House Events in Shanghai, China, and a total of almost 500 visitors in six months: These are the main facts of our Open House Offensive, which was successfully concluded on November 13, 2019 in Shanghai. A review... Go to press info

2019-09-04 China plant in Dalian expanded by another 6,700 m²

After the completion of the second plant expansion within seven years, the entire production and logistics area of the Chinese GROB plant has grown to 32,400 m²... Go to press info

2019-07-22 First VinFast production plant with GROB technology opens in Vietnam

June 14 saw the grand opening of the new production plant of VinFast, Vietnam's first automobile manufacturer, in Haiphong. A flagship project for GROB, with VinFast relying on the expertise and... Go to press info

2019-07-20 First HONDA Special Recognition Award for GROB

At the annual "Honda Indirect Procurement Supplier Conference" in Powell, Ohio, Honda paid great tribute to GROB Systems for its performance in a current cylinder head line project with the "Special Recognition Award"... Go to press info

2019-07-18 GROB awarded with ABF Supplier Award by FORD

At FORD's "21st Annual World Excellence Awards", GROB was the only supplier from the machine tool sector to receive the "Aligned Business Framework Award 2019"... Go to press info

2019-06-06 Ready today for the production challenges of the future!

When the twenty-third EMO opens its doors in Hanover on September 16, 2019, GROB-WERKE will once again be presenting a host of technical innovations on its stand in Hall 12... Go to press info

2019-05-27 International Technology Tour 2019 visits GROB

During the annual International Technology Tour of the American and Canadian Association for Tooling and Machining, eighteen high-ranking representatives from the manufacturing sector visited various European companies at the beginning of April... Go to press info

2019-05-21 First GROB in-house exhibition comes to a successful close

From April 9 to 12, 2019, GROB-WERKE opened the doors to its first in-house exhibition at the headquarters in Mindelheim. Some four hundred invited customers and guests were inspired by innovative product and live demonstrations, various technical presentations and interesting tours of the premises... Go to press info

2019-05-17 Access to Success – The new access-series from GROB

GROB launches its new access-series in Europe, two flexible all-rounders for the universal machining center sector: The new G350a and G550a 5-axis machining centers are a convincingly smart and economic introduction to the unique GROB technology, offering... Go to press info

2019-05-15 Groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth GROB plant in the mecca of the Italian automotive industry

The groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth GROB plant in Pianezza, Italy, marked yet another important milestone for GROB in its electromobility offensive... Go to press info

2019-05-13 Baton passed in the Sales Management Board

Within the GROB Group, the Sales Management Board enters a new generation. Christian Müller, President of Sales Americas, succeeds, and takes on the responsibilities, of long-standing Member of the Board & CSO Jochen Nahl... Go to press info

2019-04-29 GROB remains a strong partner in the automotive industry

As one of the few worldwide machine manufacturers, GROB is now, following years of involved development work, wholly committed to electro mobility and is expanding its product range by this pivotal and future-facing sector... Go to press info

2019-03-27 The GROB Peugeot line in Poland goes into production

The overall line concept for producing a range of petrol and diesel engines, which began with Opel and was continued with Peugeot once Opel had been taken over by PSA, started in January this year... Go to press info

2018-11-22 GROB opens its production plants in Brazil and China to the public

In October, the GROB plants in Brazil and China opened up their production facilities to existing customers and interested visitors, offering them interesting presentations and also the chance to find out about the company's current position... Go to press info

2018-09-04 B. GROB do Brasil scoops the International Innovation Award

B. GROB do Brasil has once again been recognized for supplying Ford Taubaté with a machining line with intermediate assembly technology for the assembly of camshaft bearing caps for the cylinder heads... Go to press info

2018-05-23 GROB Mindelheim plant, Germany: A 50-year success story

Following the purchase of a 1,500 m² production hall from the company Stetter in Mindelheim, in 1967, and a short, intensive renovation and investment phase, the green light was given for production to start at the third GROB plant in Mindelheim in 1968... Go to press info

2018-04-09 GROB receives awards from SAIC-GM and GEELY

GROB-WERKE has added to its collection of prestigious awards with the Special Contribution Supplier Award from SAIC-GM and the Excellent Supplier Award from GEELY. These are important and symbolic awards for GROB, particularly in China, the largest market in Asia... Go to press info

2018-02-27 DMG meccanica becomes GROB Italy S.r.l.

With the integration of DMG meccanica into the GROB Group complete, GROB takes the final step in the take-over of the Italian electric motor industry specialists... Go to press info

2018-02-06 Continued expansion of the European GROB sales network

GROB has achieved further milestones in the expansion of its sales and service network with the founding of two new sales and service branches in Hengelo (Netherlands) and Steinhausen (Switzerland)... Go to press info

2017-12-01 Record numbers visits the in-house exhibition

After four days that saw 1200 visitors pass through the doors, the fourth in-house exhibition at GROB in Mindelheim has drawn to a close... Go to press info

2017-10-30 GROB celebrates ten years of universal machines with in-house trade show

Ten years of universal machines and the completion of the largest production hall at the Mindelheim site – for GROB-WERKE, these are important reasons to invite its customers... Go to press info

2017-10-04 EMO 2017: One of the most successful EMO trade fairs in GROB's history

When the 2017 EMO closed its doors, German Wankmiller, chairman of the management board at GROB, talked about how the trade fair went, how GROB-Werke is faring at present and about its prospects for the future... Go to press info

2017-07-21 GROB-WERKE receives Ford World Excellence Award

GROB-WERKE was recognized as a top-performing supplier and honored with the World Excellence Award at the 19th Ford World Excellence Awards held at the Henry Ford Museum. Ford chose 54 of its best partners from a total of 1,000 suppliers and presented these companies with prizes in eleven categories... Go to press info

2017-07-18 GROB Systems receives visit from prominent politician

Our American colleagues in Bluffton were visited by a prominent politician. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, visited GROB Systems to find out more about the company's exemplary apprenticeship program with the aim of rolling out similar training programs in other companies in the state of Ohio... Go to press info

2017-06-27 Active recruiting for GROB vocational training

At several events over the past weeks GROB has been recruiting young people who are looking for an apprenticeship. As the largest training company in the Unterallgäu district, GROB also took part in the national Girls' Day event, and allowed forty girls from various schools to get a taste of working in industrial/technical professions... Go to press info

2017-05-13 GROB-WERKE and General Motors – a ‘rewarding’ partnership

For the fifth time in a row, and the eleventh time overall, GROB-WERKE was honored by General Motors as best supplier of 2016 at the 25th award ceremony, held on 31 March in Orlando, Florida... Go to press info

2017-05-11 Two million euros donated to Mindelheim district hospital

A two million euro donation by our late owner, Dr. Burkhart Grob, towards the district hospital in Mindelheim has funded the acquisition of various items of medical equipment in the new Radiology department... Go to press info

2017-03-27 GROB receives a double award from Volkswagen

As the recipient of the Excellent Supplier Award 2017 from Volkswagen FAW Engine (VWFAW) in Dalian and of Excellent Supplier Entry from Shanghai Volkswagen Powertrain Co.Ltd. (VW-PT), GROB Werke's outstanding performance has been acknowledged again this year in China... Go to press info

2017-02-24 GROB buys Italian machinery and plant manufacturer for electric motors

GROB acquires DMG meccanica, a leading manufacturer of machinery and plants for the production of stators for electric motors, alternators and generators, to strengthen its research and development work in electro mobility and with this technology of the future to become an even more competent partner particularly in the automotive industry... Go to press info

2017-02-20 GROB at the IMTEX in Bangalore/India

For the first time in its history, GROB-WERKE took part in a machine tool trade fair in India. The GROB sales and service subsidiary GROB Machine Tools India presented a G350 – Generation 2 5-axis universal machining center at the 18th Indian Metal-cutting Machine Tools Exhibition (IMTEX) in Bangalore... Go to press info

2017-02-01 4,000 Employees at the Headquarters in Mindelheim

Never before in the history of GROB-WERKE have there been so many employees as are currently working for the company. More than 5,500 people are working for the GROB Group in four plants worldwide... Go to press info

2016-12-07 Fourth KRAFTHAND Technology Award created by a GROB apprentice

For the fourth time in a row, a GROB apprentice has designed and manufactured the KRAFTHAND Technology Award, which is given out every other year by Krafthand Medien GmbH from Bad Wörishofen to manufacturers of particularly innovative workshop products... Go to press info

2016-07-29 GROB Systems 5-Axis Machining & Automation at IMTS S-8574

GROB Systems brings the G-Series universal machining centers to IMTS this September. Based on a proven horizontal machining center platform, these 5-axis machining centers are like no other... Go to press info