for the 1930s car see adler trumpf . for the former secretary general for the council of the european union see j rgen trumpf . trumpf gmbh co. kg type gmbh & co. kg founded 1923 headquarters ditzingen germany key people nicola leibinger kamm ller president and chairwoman of the managing board ; peter leibinger vice chairman of the managing board ; mathias kamm ller ; gerhard r bling ; lars gr nert number of employees 10 914 date 30 . june 2014 website trumpf.com the trumpf group is a german family owned company with its head office in ditzingen near stuttgart . 1 trumpf is one of the world s biggest providers of machine tools . with more than 60 operative subsidiaries the trumpf group is represented in all important markets worldwide . its production facilities are based in china germany france the uk italy japan mexico austria poland switzerland the czech republic and the usa . 2 contents 1 divisions 1.1 machine tools 1.2 power tools 1.3 laser technology 1.4 electronics 2 company history 2.1 beginnings 2.2 the economic miracle years 2.3 world market 2.4 laser 2.5 change of generation 3 key figures of the trumpf group 4 references 5 external links divisions edit the two divisions are combined under the umbrella of the management holding company trumpf gmbh co. kg . machine tools and laser technology electronics . in the past they sold their medical technology division . this sector is now a part of the hill rom holdings . 3 punching machine machine tools edit its core business is machine tools for flexible sheet metal processing and tube processing . trumpf produces machines for punching and forming laser processing combined punch and laser processing and bending . 4 power tools edit power tools for cutting joining and forming sheet metal are chiefly used in the building trade air conditioning or recycling industry . 5 3 d lasercutting laser technology edit trumpf laser technology encompasses laser systems for the cutting welding and surface treatment of three dimensional components . the company provides high performance co2 lasers rod disk and fiber lasers direct diode lasers ultra short pulse lasers marking lasers and marking systems . the lasers are mainly used in the automotive industry and its suppliers electronics and precision engineering mechanical engineering tool and mold making as well as medical technology . in may 2014 the company embarked on a joint venture with the italian laser manufacturer sisma to develop 3d printers for mass production of metal components . this involves melting the metal with a laser and then building it up into a desired object layer by layer . 6 electronics edit operating table and operating lamps the electronics product pallet includes dc high and medium frequency generators such as are needed for manufacturing flat screen tvs for example . they are used for inductive material heating surface coating and surface processing via plasma technology as well as for laser excitation . 7 company history edit one of the first motor driven hand shears . beginnings edit in 1923 christian trumpf and two partners acquired julius geiger gmbh a machine shop in stuttgart . the company manufactured flexible shafts used in metal processing machines amongst other applications and motor driven hand shears for cutting sheet metal . in 1933 the company moved to the stuttgart suburb of weilimdorf . during world war ii trumpf continued with the production of electric shears and flexible shafts . the production buildings remained undamaged . 8 the economic miracle years edit during the post war years stationary machines for sheet metal processing were a main constituent of the product program . in 1950 trumpf employed 145 people and its sales exceeded the one million mark.ten years later these figures had increased to 325 employees and sales of dm 11 million . in 1963 the company founded its first foreign company at the swiss town of baar in the canton of zug . world market edit trumpf location in farmington usa in 1968 trumpf manufactured the trumatic 20 the first sheet metal fabrication machine with a numerical control system . it enabled fully automatic work at the machine right down to tool changes for the very first time . all the information required to process sheet metal was stored on perforated computer tape . one year later the company founded a subsidiary in farmington connecticut connecticut in the u.s. farmington is now the company s second largest location and is the headquarters for the entire u.s. market . in 1972 trumpf shifted its headquarters to ditzingen . in 1978 berthold leibinger was appointed chairman of the managing board and founded a subsidiary in japan in the same year . laser edit laser welding of thick sheet metal in 1985 trumpf presented its own co2 laser the laser tlf 1000 . it had 1 kw of beam performance and is the first compact laser resonator with radio frequency excitation . in 1988 trumpf lasertechnik gmbh was founded . in 1992 the solid state laser sector began with its participation in the firm of haas laser gmbh in schramberg . the company is now 100 percent owned by the trumpf group . on november 20 1998 a new laser factory was opened at the company s headquarters in ditzingen . 8 change of generation edit in 2005 shortly before his 75th birthday berthold leibinger retired from the managing board after 40 years . his daughter nicola leibinger kamm ller was appointed as the new president and chairwoman of the managing board . as well as her brother peter leibinger the vice chairman of the managing board her husband mathias kamm ller also has a seat on the managing board . 9 key figures of the trumpf group edit building at the headquarters in ditzingen business year sales employees 2013 14 2 59 bn euros approx . 10 914 employees including about 5 599 in germany 2012 13 2 34 bn euros approx . 9 925 employees including about 5 348 in germany 2011 12 2 33 bn euros approx . 9 555 employees including about 5 207 in germany 2010 11 2 03 bn euros approx . 8 550 employees including about 4 675 in germany 2008 09 1 34 bn euros approx . 8 000 employees including about 4 550 in germany 2007 08 2 14 bn euros approx . 8 000 employees including about 4 550 in germany 2006 07 1 94 bn euros approx . 7 250 employees including about 4 280 in germany 2005 06 1 65 bn euros approx . 6 500 employees including about 4 000 in germany 2004 05 1 4 bn euros approx . 6 100 employees including about 3 800 in germany 2003 04 1 22 bn euros employees 5 790 10 references edit a happy family of 8 000 but for how long . new york times . retrieved 11 july 2009 . home trumpf group . trumpf.com . hill rom holdings inc. 16 june 2014 . hill rom announces definitive agreement to acquire trumpf medical . prnewswire.com . process sensor systems for laser beam welding . laser technik journal . 2012 . p. 27 . power tools trumpf group . trumpf.com . trumpf steigt in markt f r 3d drucker ein in 3d grenzenlos.de vom 12 . mai 2014 home trumpf h ttinger . trumpf huettinger.com . a b milestones of history trumpf group . trumpf.com . dr. phil . nicola leibinger kamm ller . trumpf.com . facts and figures . trumpf.com . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to trumpf . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trumpf & oldid 727646216 categories industrial machine manufacturerselectronics companiesmedical equipment manufacturersgerman brandsmultinational companies headquartered in germanyhealth care companies of germanyhidden categories commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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