Name Address/P.O. Box Postal Code/City State Telephone Email Website Number of Employees Founded (year) Annual Turnover
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INDEX-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
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Plochinger Str. 92 73730 Esslingen Baden-Wuerttemberg +49-711-3191-0 info@index-traub.com www.index-traub.com ~2,100 1914
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~€575m
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With its INDEX and TRAUB brands, the INDEX Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of CNC turning machines. The Esslingen group of companies is active around the world with five production sites, five international sales and service companies, as well as 80 representative offices.
Progress has a long tradition INDEX-Werke was set up in 1914 by Hermann Hahn, who began that year with the production of automatic turret turning machines. He was a Swabian entrepreneur through and through, who laid the foundation for an impressive enterprise with creative ideas and an aspiration for quality. Within four decades, more than 20,000 turning machines had been sold and these formed the basis for the excellent reputation of INDEX around the world. In 1975, INDEX began with the production of multi-spindle turning machines. A few years later, the company entered the market for CNC technology, in which it soon assumed a pioneering role. After the death of Eugen Hahn, the son of the company’s founder, 85% of the company shares were put into a foundation. In 1992, INDEX introduced a new generation of turn-mill centres based on a modular component system. In 1997, TRAUB Drehmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG from neighbouring Reichenbach/Fils was taken over and integrated into the INDEX Group. The company pursues a two-brand strategy to this very day.
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Since 2002, INDEX has offered multi-functional production centres in which different process technologies can be integrated in one machine. The complete machining means not only that quality and precision are higher but also that production costs, in particular, are reduced as a result of the shorter throughput times. This benefit is appreciated by INDEX customers worldwide, as it strengthens their competitiveness. The main customers of INDEX turning machines include, above all, companies from the automotive and automotive supplier industries, from the mechanical engineering,
