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16 Company profile<br />
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Company profile<br />
History<br />
The original company Starrag was founded in<br />
1885 in Rorschach, Switzerland, as a manufacturer<br />
of threading machines for the textile industry.<br />
Following the textile crisis in the wake of World<br />
War I, the company switched to manufacture<br />
milling machines from 1920 onward. It was renamed<br />
Starrfräsmaschinen AG five years later.<br />
Production of copy milling machinery for turbine,<br />
aircraft, and mold and die manufacture began in<br />
the mid-1930s.<br />
Starrfräsmaschinen AG established a name for<br />
itself in the post-WW2 years with the world’s<br />
first CNC 5-axis milling machine. The company<br />
went public in 1998, when it was listed on the<br />
Swiss stock exchange. That same year Chemnitz-<br />
Germany based Heckert Werkzeugmaschinen<br />
GmbH, the successor company of the famous<br />
Wanderer Werke was acquired. Heckert was the<br />
first company ever to develop a highly automated<br />
flexible manufacturing system as early as the<br />
1970s, to international acclaim.<br />
Following the merger, the company changed its<br />
name to StarragHeckert. The organization assumed<br />
a holding structure in 2000, calling itself<br />
StarragHeckert Holding AG. In the course of the<br />
past 10 years, the company acquired UK-based<br />
Toolroom Technology Limited (TTL), a supplier of<br />
adaptive machining solutions for gas turbine and<br />
aircraft engine repair, as well as Geneva-based SIP<br />
(Société d'Instruments de Précision SA), which<br />
is the reference worldwide for its ultra-high precision<br />
jig boring systems.<br />
In January <strong>2011</strong>, StarragHeckert acquired the<br />
German Dörries Scharmann Group, including<br />
its prestigious Berthiez (1916), Dörries (1884),<br />
Droop+Rein (1890) and Scharmann brands.<br />
As a consequence the group switches to a new<br />
brand strategy in 2012: The organization in the<br />
future trades under the name Starrag Group.<br />
Vision<br />
Starrag Group is the preferred partner of international<br />
players in aerospace, energy, transport and<br />
industrial engineering industries in Europe, North<br />
America and emerging industrial Asian markets.<br />
The company’s comprehensive range of high-end<br />
precision machinery is continuously updated and<br />
comes with expert engineering and other related<br />
services, helping customers to boost productivity<br />
significantly and sustainably.<br />
Business model close to the<br />
market, 9 leading brands under<br />
one strong roof<br />
In the last 10 years, the Starrag Group has<br />
evolved into a group with a unique technologically<br />
advanced portfolio of precision machining solutions<br />
for middle and large sized components.<br />
It has achieved its globally recognized market<br />
position through organic growth and as a result<br />
of various strategic acquisitions. The various<br />
expansion stages have always followed the<br />
logic that any new acquisition must be a useful<br />
synergistic addition to the existing base in order<br />
to strengthen the group’s competitiveness and<br />
market position as a whole.<br />
The range of products and services covers the<br />
complete production from simple cubical parts<br />
up to extremely geometrically complex components<br />
out of difficult to machine materials. Starrag<br />
Group’s skills and technology portfolio is a unique<br />
attractive proposition for leading international<br />
companies.<br />
Customer focus is our guiding<br />
principle<br />
All brands of Starrag Group provide dedicated<br />
customer specific solutions to meet and satisfy<br />
individual manufacturing needs. In addition to<br />
stand-alone installations, we satisfy the increasing<br />
demand for complex system solutions involving
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