Starrag

Starrag is a Swiss industrial technology brand focused on high-precision machine tools and complete machining solutions. The company describes its machines as designed for milling, turning, boring and grinding workpieces made from metallic, composite and ceramic materials. Its offer combines machinery with application-related technology and maintenance services, with the stated aim of improving customers’ manufacturing quality and productivity over the service life of their equipment. The company identifies internationally active customers in aerospace, energy, industrial markets, micromechanics and transportation as its principal customer base. Its website also groups a wide range of applications under these sectors, including aero engines and structures, power turbines, oil and gas, industrial drives, machine parts, medical technology, luxury goods, micro parts, vehicles, rail and marine, and construction and mining. Starrag presents its proposition as more than a machine purchase: it promotes complete solutions and continuing service support for demanding precision-cutting applications. Starrag is the umbrella brand for product ranges bearing the names Berthiez, Bumotec, Dörries, Droop+Rein, Ecospeed, Heckert, SIP, Starrag and TTL. Its published company profile identifies its headquarters as Rorschacherberg, Switzerland, and its manufacturing plants as located in Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and India. The company also describes a network of sales and service subsidiaries in important customer countries. Its service offer includes inspection and maintenance, retrofit work and spindle overhauls; the service page reports a service workforce of 300 employees, including regional staff and service technicians. The company’s public history records a series of acquisitions, organizational changes and international expansions. These include the acquisition of Toolroom Technology Limited in 2005, assets of SIP in 2006, and the Dörries Scharmann Group in 2011, followed by the acquisition of Bumotec in 2012. Starrag’s published history also notes a group-name change in 2011 and the renaming of StarragHeckert AG to Starrag Group Holding AG in 2012. In 2015, sales operations were reorganized around eleven market segments within four target industries, under the claim “Engineering precisely what you value.” Starrag’s positioning emphasizes precision, productivity, durability, innovation, quality and customer service. Its communications include a digital Starrag magazine and technology talks featuring customers and experts. The company describes its broader goal as supplying productive, durable complete solutions and helping customers sustain productivity throughout the lifecycle of their machine tools.

Starrag’s current corporate identity brings together a group of machine-tool product ranges and businesses with a long combined engineering background. The company’s profile names Berthiez, Bumotec, Dörries, Droop+Rein, Ecospeed, Heckert, SIP, Starrag and TTL as the ranges united under the Starrag umbrella brand. Its published history describes organizational development and acquisitions that expanded this portfolio and its geographic reach. The supplied history records the acquisition of a controlling majority of British company Toolroom Technology Limited (TTL) in 2005. In 2006, StarragHeckert acquired all assets of SIP (Société d'Instruments de Précision SA) in Geneva and its subsidiaries American SIP and SIP China. The company described SIP as a manufacturer of ultra-precise machine tools and coordinate measuring systems serving aerospace and precision machine-building customers. In 2007, StarragHeckert established operations in France and Turkey. In 2009, it established StarragHeckert Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd. in India, and the company’s history records a new heavy-duty machine-tool assembly hall at the Droop + Rein plant in Bielefeld. In 2010, Starrag inaugurated a technology center and broke ground for a production plant in India. A major portfolio expansion followed in 2011, when StarragHeckert acquired the Dörries Scharmann Group. The acquired group comprised Berthiez in Saint-Etienne, France; Dörries in Mönchengladbach, Germany; Droop+Rein in Bielefeld, Germany; and Scharmann in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Starrag’s history says that the brand concept was updated and the company name changed to Starrag Group in the same year. In 2012, StarragHeckert AG was renamed Starrag Group Holding AG, the first production plant in India opened, and the company acquired Bumotec in Freiburg, Switzerland. In 2015, Starrag reorganized its sales operations around eleven market segments within four target industries: Aerospace, Energy, Transportation and Industrial. The company associated this organization with the claim “Engineering precisely what you value.” Its later company profile describes a global business headquartered in Rorschacherberg, Switzerland, with manufacturing plants in Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and India, as well as sales and service subsidiaries in important customer countries. The company’s present-day public description emphasizes high-precision milling, turning, boring and grinding of metallic, composite and ceramic workpieces. It combines machine tools with integrated technology and maintenance services, including inspection, maintenance, retrofits and spindle overhauls. Starrag’s stated approach is to supply complete solutions and support customer productivity throughout the machine-tool lifecycle. The company also communicates through a digital customer magazine and technology talks featuring customers and experts. The supplied corporate history does not establish an original founding date or identify a founder.

• 2015

  Reorganized sales around market segments and target industries

• 2012

  Renamed the holding company and acquired Bumotec

• 2011

  Acquired Dörries Scharmann Group and adopted the Starrag Group name

• 2010

  Opened a technology center and began an India plant project

• 2009

  Established an Indian company

• 2007

  Established operations in France and Turkey

• 2006

  Acquired SIP assets

• 2005

  Acquired a controlling majority of TTL

A global technology leader in high-precision machine tools, positioned around productive, durable complete solutions, precision cutting, customer productivity and lifecycle service.

• High-precision machine tools

  Machines for milling, turning, boring and grinding metallic, composite and ceramic workpieces.

• STC HD

  A machine range whose highlighted features include wrapped-around hydrostatic guideways, robustness, dynamics, precision and machine intelligence.

• Lifecycle and maintenance services

  Services include inspection and maintenance, retrofit work and spindle overhauls.

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