TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IS CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COMPANY

DEAR COLLEAGUES, Dear Business Partners and Friends of GROB, On behalf of my family, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all employees for their support over the past year. Thanks to your help, the GROB Group has once again achieved an excellent result. The value of this result cannot be overstated, particularly considering the far-reaching changes in our core business with the automotive industry. After a little less than two years, it is already evident that the GROB Management was absolutely correct in its decision to set up and develop electromobility as a fourth core business...

GROB PRODUCTIONFinal assembly in Hall 13 officially opened Hall 13 - a further milestone in the development of the site at Mindelheim larger customer projects can now be set up with several sub-projects, which would not have been possible in the existing halls. For instance, Hall 13 is set to become the center for installation and commissioning. It will also provide production with a continuous line of infrastructure for customer projects in order to pool many complex work steps which used to be spread over a number of halls in the past. They include, among other things, the setting-up and installation...

GROB ELECTRIC MOBILITY Electromobility at GROB as a fourth dimension GROB impresses with its innovative strength and a new business segment GROB broadened its product range significantly at the beginning of this year by moving into the area of electromobility. After several years in installation and development, this new line of business is now well established. It makes GROB one of the few mechanical engineering manufacturers in the world that is fully geared to the issue of „electromobility“, and it has once again demonstrated its value as a competent service provider and partner for the automotive...

APPRENTICESHIPS AT GROB Over one hundred apprentices for the first time He will be continuing his ongoing career development in key operational areas, such as material hardening. Technological progress has also kept up a high pace in sheet metal work in recent years. Laser punching, CNC bending machines, bending robot systems and robot welding have also made their way into GROB‘s construction portfolio. To keep up with this pace of innovation in terms of personnel, GROB launched an apprenticeship in construction mechanics, starting in the 2017 apprenticeship year. This 3½-year apprenticeship,...

GROB'S LONG-SERVING EMPLOYEES The company's long-term employees deserve their honors 40th anniversary and retired employees with links to the company of between 30 and 40 years

GROB TRAVEL MANAGEMENT Travel department for modern travel management Who‘s who in the GROB Travel Management department? The GROB Travel Management department is to be staffed by colleagues with previous experience of handling GROB travel arrangements; they will now be a centralized point of contact for personnel. In addition, we have recruited two new colleagues with many years of professional experience in business travel. Erika Summer has been appointed as a travel manager; she will deal with strategic questions, find ways of improving processes and attend to internal and external communication...

GROB IN-HOUSE TRADE SHOW GROB celebrates ten years of universal machines with in-house trade show GROB UK is strengthening its market position in the field of aircraft engineering GROB UK has also managed to expand its market position in the UK aerospace industry over the past year. More than 50 percent of all universal machines sold are currently being sold in this key industry which is so vital to GROB. A first G750 machine was also delivered this year in the field of mold making. Another interesting order was received from a university in North- ern Ireland for a G550. Based on „Industry 4.0“,...

GROB-USA Ambitious goals based on good business performance in 2017 ment. The order to supply a production cell for a highly complex braking system from a Japanese/Swedish customer was also a particular highlight. It is a fully automated manufacturing cell with two-spindle machines that will be shipped to the US next year. Furthermore, we delivered a variety of flexible leak-test stations, which enable the machine to be set up for new workpieces very quickly. In total, assembly technology currently accounts for a 50% share of turnover in Bluffton. The other 50 percent share is accounted for by...

Major investments secure the future of GROB Brazil GROB Dalian celebrated its fifth anniversary and a successful 2017 New construction: Covered Parking: 76 cars Sub-Assembly: 2.475 m2 Storage: 1.620 m2 Shed Building With the purchase of two halls with a total area of 15,000 m² (161,000 ft2) on a 23,000 m² (248,000 ft2) site in the immediate vicinity of the existing plant, GROB Brazil has obtained the assembly and production space it urgently needs to meet the increased demands in production. Following the move, GROB Brazil is facing major reorganization. With production volumes increasing steadily...

GROB MACHINE TOOLS Birmingham, United Kingdom GROB-WERKE Mindelheim, Germany GROB SYSTEMS Detroit, Michigan, USA, GROB SYSTEMS Bluffton, Ohio, USA* GROB ITALIA Torino, Italy GROB MEXICO Queretaro, Mexico *B. GROB DO BRASIL Sao Paulo, B razil GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG Mindelheim, GERMANY Tel.: +49 8261 9960 E-Mail: [email protected] B. GROB DO BRASIL S.A. Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Tel.: +55 1 1 43679100 E-Mail: [email protected] GROB SYSTEMS, INC. Bluffton, Ohio, USA Tel.: +1 419 3589015 E-Mail: [email protected] GROB MACHINE TOOLS (DALIAN) Co. Ltd. Dalian, V.R. CHINA Tel.: +86...