Founded in 1923 as a mechanical-workshop in Stuttgart, TRUMPF is a family-owned industrial laser and machine-tool company with roughly 18,000 employees and more than 70 subsidiaries worldwide. Our R&D investment as a share of revenue has exceeded the industrial-machinery sector average every year for the past decade.
We are an engineering company first, a commercial organization second. Our applications labs aren't marketing showrooms — they are process-validation environments where customer samples are cut, welded, printed and tested against documented specification sheets, because buyers deserve data, not promises.
Leadership continuity matters: family ownership under the Leibinger-Kammüller family has kept investment horizons aligned with customer equipment lifecycles — 15 years for a press brake, 10 years for a fiber laser, rather than quarterly-earnings calendars.
Christian Trumpf founds a mechanical-workshop for flexible-shaft drives — the earliest precursor to today's motion-control discipline.
Integration of a CO2 laser into a turret punch changes sheet-metal fabrication. Laser technology becomes a central product line.
Thin-disk laser technology reaches industrial power classes, enabling single-source fiber-like beam quality at kilowatt scale.
TRUMPF commercializes powder-bed-fusion metal 3D printing for tool-and-die and medical markets.
TRUMPF light sources power advanced EUV semiconductor lithography at the 3 nm and below nodes — the same precision discipline we bring to industrial cutting.
Laser cutting, tube processing, bending, marking, welding and metal 3D printing — a unified engineering platform with documented process validation.
Regional applications labs in Farmington (CT), Plymouth (MI), Ditzingen (DE), Barcelona (ES), Taicang (CN) and Singapore welcome customer engineering teams for process-validation days.