| 1950 | | The company has 145 employees and its sales now exceed the one-million mark.
Stationary machines make the company gradually increase in size and go global.
Serial production of TRUMPF cutting machine TAS in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
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| 1953 | |
Hugo Schwarz (1962)
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TRUMPF is now present at trade fairs internationally, thereby gaining a customer base overseas. TRUMPF nibblers are now sold all over the world, and soon necessitate the construction of a second production location.
Hugo Schwarz becomes a partner and the head of the company. He remains in charge of TRUMPF until 1978.
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| 1955 | | The company's second factory is opened in Hettingen, in the Swabian Jura. |
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| 1957 | | The company applies for a patent for coordinate guides, developed by the young engineer Berthold Leibinger. This technological development solves the problem of manual metal guiding by the operator, and enables ultra-precise nibbling (advanced punching) of right-angled blanks. The coordinate guide is the first step on the way toward a numerically controlled feed movement. |
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