Alzmetall GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1945 by Harald Friedrich and Peter Meier and received a license from the American occupying forces that same year to engage in precision engineering. The company began making drilling machines in 1947. Already in 1956, the 10,000th machine is rolling off the assembly line.
In 1976 they introduced their first NC drilling machines, and in 1980 they introduced their first CNC machining center, soon followed by fully automated production cells.
In 2008 they acquired the drilling machine operations of a smaller manufacturer in the same city, Donau Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG, which they organized as a subsidiary, Donau Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH.
In 2016, Alzmetall Machine Tools (Taicang) Co. Ltd. (WFOE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alzmetall, was established in Taicang, China, and in 2022, the wholly owned subsidiary Alzmetall Machine Tools USA Inc. was established in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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