DMG Mori Aktiengesellschaft

DMG Mori AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (name written in capital letters; until September 2013: Gildemeister AG, until June 2015: DMG MORI SEIKI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT) is one of Germany's largest manufacturers of cutting machine tools and a leading global manufacturer of CNC-controlled Lathes and Milling machines. Products include innovative high-tech machines, industrial services and software and energy solutions. The MDAX technology group has 21 production sites worldwide and 161 international sales and service sites. The company is based in Bielefeld.

History

On 1 October 1870, locksmith Friedrich Gildemeister founded the ‘Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik (Machine Tool Plant) Gildemeister & Comp’ back in the ‘pioneer days’ in Germany. In the following decades, the plant near the Cologne-Minden train station in Bielefeld was expanded to include several production facilities.

For over 100 years – until 1976 - the company was based where the city hall is now situated. Gildemeisterstraße 60 in Bielefeld has since become the group’s headquarters. Today, 7,236 employees and 261 trainees work for the group worldwide. In 1890, the company had around 100 employees, among them a wages clerk and three technicians to assemble the machines.