Global competition has placed the machine tool industry under increased price and cost pressure. For the Diedesheim Works in the Hüller Hille Group this means specialising in only one product. Since the merger in 1994, Diedesheim has been systematically expanded into a Centres works. Since then the Diedesheim Works has developed a completely new generation of processing centres and is marketing them internationally.
Company history
The Diedesheim engineering factory was established in 1947 by Dr. Georg W. Reinhard. The company originated as an external factory for Daimler-Benz and was set up on the site of a former Portland cement works in Diedesheim. Initially it only repaired machine tools and produced spare parts for motor vehicles. But it soon started developing and producing its own machine tools. The major developments from the Diedesheim Works included the front-operated lathe, vertical lathes, multi-travel machines, drill-head centres, and machines designed to special order for the motor and pipe fittings industries. Milestones along its road as a pioneer in flexible manufacturing were in 1983 the first flexible system ever built for major series production to process cylinder heads and cylinder blocks, which was delivered to the motor manufacturer Opel (General Motors) in Rüsselsheim in 1984.
1947
Start-up year for "Maschinenfabrik Diedesheim GmbH" in Mosbach
1983
The Diedesheim engineering factory is taken over by Thyssen Industrie AG
1994
Merger between Hüller Hille and Maschinenfabrik Diedesheim
1995
Certification of the Quality Management System under DIN EN ISO 9001
1999
Certification of the Quality and Environmental Management system under DIN EN ISO 14001
