If you count up the combined years of experience of all ten brands in the Starrag Group, you come to over 1000 years of mechanical engineering expertise.

Starrag in

2015

Sales operations are reorganized with a focus on eleven market segments within the four target industries of Aerospace, Energy, Transportation and Industrial, under the claim "Engineering precisely what you value".

Starrag in

2012

StarragHeckert AG renamed in Starrag Group Holding AG. First production plant opens in India (first also in Asia). Acquisition of Bumotec, Freiburg, Switzerland.

Starrag in

2011

Acquisition of Dörries Scharmann Group, comprising Berthiez (Saint-Etienne, France), Dörries (Mönchengladbach, Germany), Droop+Rein (Bielefeld, Germany) and Scharmann (Mönchengladbach, Germany). Brand concept is updated and the company name is changed to Starrag Group.

Starrag in

2010

Inauguration of the Tech Center and groundbreaking for the production plant in India.

Starrag in

2009

Establishment of StarragHeckert Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd. in India. Inauguration of the new assembly hall for heavy duty machine tools at the Droop + Rein plant in Bielefeld. 

Starrag in

2007

Establishment of StarragHeckert France and Turkey.

Starrag in

2006

StarragHeckert acquires all assets of SIP (Société d'Instruments de Précision SA) in Geneva, Switzerland, and its subsidiaries American SIP and SIP China. This merger with the renowned manufacturer of ultra-precise machine tools and coordinate measuring systems for customers in the aerospace and precision machine building industry will lead to extensive synergies.

Starrag in

2005

StarragHeckert acquires a controlling majority of the British company Toolroom Technology Limited (TTL), a global market leader in providing advanced machining systems for the repair of aircraft engine componenets. Therewith Starrag-Heckert offers its customers additional services in milling technologies.

Starrag in

2002

The two companies within the StarragHeckert Group are renamed StarragHeckert AG (in Rorschacherberg) and StarragHeckert GmbH (in Chemnitz). All products are sold under the brand name "StarragHeckert". The Group employs approx. 730 people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, the former representation of Heckert products is taken over with 32 employees and renamed "StarragHeckert UK Ltd.". At the same time, StarragHeckert acquires 40% of the equity of the British software development company "TTL".

Starrag in

2001

Market introduction of the first generation of platform machines: The former ZT range is replaced by the STC 1000, while the HEC 1000 substitutes the CWK range of heavy-duty machining centers.

Starrag in

2000

Introduction of the SKM 400 kinematics machine (tripod).
The StarragHeckert Group is re-structured under the holding company StarragHeckert Holding AG, Rorschacherberg.

Starrag in

1999

Start of joint development work on the platform strategy.

Starrag in

1998

The shares of the Starrfräsmaschinen AG are listed on the secondary market of the Zurich Stock Exchange. Inauguration of sales offices in Moscow and Shanghai. Heckert Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Chemnitz (198 employees) is taken over by Starrfräsmaschinen AG Rorschacherberg. Starrfräsmaschinen AG is renamed "STARRAG". The different company names "La Rigide" and "Rigid", which are still used worldwide, are replaced by one single name: "STARRAG". At the end of 1998, 625 employees are part of the Group.

Starrag in

1996

The business of Dörries Scharmann AG was transferred into a new operating company, Dörries Scharmann GmbH.

Starrag in

1990

Under control of the Treuhand-Anstalt Berlin (Trust corporation), the "Heckert Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH" is founded.

Starrag in

1988

Dörries and Scharmann are merged under the ownership of the Voith Group.

Starrag in

1978

The American subsidiary "Rigid Machine Tool Inc." is founded in Rye, N.Y. In France and the UK, Starrag already holds own sales offices.

Starrag in

1973

Starrag delivers the first 5 axis/3 spindle copy milling machine for titanium helicopter engine impellers to Rolls Royce.

Starrag in

1971

In Chemnitz, the first FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) of the world, named "Prisma 2", is put into operation.

Starrag in

1962

Starrag equips its first copy milling machine with numercial control driven by a magnetic tape. Starrag staff amounts to 1,200 people.

Starrag in

1959

Starrag delivers the first 5-axis milling machine of the world.

Starrag in

1952

Post-war period: The company establishes itself as a manufacturer of turbine milling machines.

Starrag in

1946

Wanderer works take up production under improvised conditions and manufacture 38 milling machines.

Starrag in

1944

Between 1936 and 1945, production of both Wanderer and Starrag is focused on military technology. During World War II, approx. 9,000 people are employed in Chemnitz. On September 11, 1944, production facilities are almost completely destroyed in an air raid.

Starrag in

1936

Introduction of the first STARRAG copy milling machine. Copy milling technology enables Starrag to penetrate the increasingly important market segments of turbine, aircraft and mold and die manufacture.

Starrag in

1932

The Wanderer motorcar department is taken over by the Auto Union AG (today Audi).

Starrag in

1921

The company is renamed Starrfräsmaschinen AG. Manufacturing of copy milling machines for automotive, aircraft and mould-manufacturing companies begins in the mid-1930s.

Starrag in

1920

The first RIGID milling machine with a closed frame construction is launched on the market.

Starrag in

1917

Levy builds turret and center lathes.

Starrag in

1916

Berthiez established in St.Etienne, France.

Starrag in

1914

With the outbreak of the first World War, Wanderer has to convert their peacetime production to wartime production. At this time, more than 3,000 people are employed. The textile industry in Eastern Switzerland is hit by a severe economic crisis.

Starrag in

1911

Completion of the first subcompact car "Wanderer-Püppchen" (two-seater with 1,15 l four-cylinder engine and 12 hp braking power).

Starrag in

1899

Wanderer starts the series production of milling machines.

Starrag in

1897

The company is founded in Rorschacherberg, Switzerland under the name "Henri Levy Mechanische Werkstatt" and manufactures threading machines for the textile industry.

Starrag in

1890

Droop+Rein established in Bielefeld, Germany

Starrag in

1889

SIP receives one of 12 platinum iridium copies of the original metre prototype in Paris

Starrag in

1885

In the German federal state of Saxony, the "Chemnitzer Velociped-Depôt Winklhofer & Jaenicke" - precursor of the world-famous "Wanderer Werke AG" - is founded. Scharmann established in Rheydt (today Mönchengladbach) 

Starrag in

1884

Dörries established in Vussem, Germany.

Starrag in

1862

In Geneva Switzerland the physicist Auguste De La Rive and the botanist Marc Thury founds their own business - named "Société Genevoise d'Instruments de Physiques".

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