ADVANCING THE TECHNOLOGY
OF MACHINE TOOLS DANOBATGROUP is a leading Spanish manufacturer of specialist precision machine tools. The company’s main focus is to introduce innovative solutions to help its clients remain ahead of their competitors on the global market.
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ast December the sheet metal division of Spain’s DANOBATGROUP celebrated its 50th anniversary. The business began in 1962 in the town of Elgoibar, in the Basque country of northern Spain, but it was not until some six years later that the division began to produce machine tools for sheet metal processing. Today, the division’s machines include technologically advanced machines such as electric punching machines, sheet metal flexible lines, automatic panel benders and fibre laser cutting machines. The sheet metal division exports its products to worldwide markets under the DANOBAT brand.
DANOBAT itself was founded in 1954 as a supplier of specialist precision machine tools. The DANOBATGROUP was established in 1980 in order to manage the company’s growing product portfolio and the Group later became a member of MONDRAGON Corporation, a company among the top 10 Spanish industrial corporations. The DANOBATGROUP also includes the operations of the SORALUCE company, a specialist manufacturer of hightechnology CNC metalworking machine tools, located in the nearby town of Bergara. Today, the DANOBATGROUP’s machine tools cover a wide range of manufacturing