1923
Christian Trumpf and two partners acquire Julius Geiger GmbH, a machine shop in Stuttgart. The company's first logo was based on its product: flexible shafts.
These were initially manufactured for dental and printing use. With the invention of the motor drive they were also produced and distributed for industrial purposes - for the machining of metal and wood.

1927
Julius Geiger GmbH has 70 employees. Growth of the firm necessitates a move to larger production premises. In 1933 the company moves to the Stuttgart suburb of Weilimdorf.

1934
The company manufactures the first motor-driven hand shears for cutting sheet metal. This results in an entire product range of electric shears.

1937
The company is renamed “TRUMPF & Co., formerly Julius Geiger GmbH”.

1939
TRUMPF has over 100 employees. During World War II, TRUMPF continues with the production of electric shears and flexible shafts. The production buildings remain undamaged.

1947
Christian Trumpf decides to build a stationary nibbler, presented as the TRUMPF nibbler TAS.

Because of the new product range, TRUMPF changes its logo. The ›spade‹ logo is retained for over 30 years.

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.

1953
TRUMPF is now present at international trade shows, thereby gaining a customer base overseas. TRUMPF stationary machines are 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 1987.

1955
The company's second factory is opened in Hettingen, in the Swabian Jura.

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 towards a numerically controlled feed movement.

1960
TRUMPF is referred to by one magazine as the ›nibbling king‹. This reflects the activities and successes in that field. At first, nibbling was little used as a sheet metal fabrication method. TRUMPF noticed the advantages it held for the metalworking industry and realized them with its stationary copy and coordinate nibbling machines as well as with a series of electrically-operated handheld nibblers.

1961
The company has 325 employees and achieves sales of DM 11 million. On his return from a stay in the USA Berthold Leibinger becomes head of construction at the company.

1963
TRUMPF founds its first foreign company in Zug, Switzerland. In 1967 the firm has 440 employees and sales of DM 20 million.

1968
With the TRUMATIC 20, TRUMPF presents the first sheet metal fabrication machine with a numerical control system. It enables fully automatic work at the machine, right down to tool changes, for the very first time. All the information required to process sheet metal is stored on perforated computer tape. The TRUMATIC 20 causes a sensation at the 11th European Machine Tool Exhibition in Paris.

1969
The company founds a U.S. subsidiary in Farmington, Connecticut. Today, Farmington has become the second-largest TRUMPF location worldwide, and the headquarters for the entire U.S. market. In 1972, TRUMPF moves to Ditzingen. Production conditions and the traffic situation in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf are no longer suitable for a firm of its size.

1975
800 employees are now working for TRUMPF. The company achieves sales of DM 73 million.

1977
TRUMPF founds its Japanese subsidiary in Yokohama, Japan. 30 years later, Japan is the biggest single market for TRUMPF – after Germany and the USA.

1978
Berthold Leibinger becomes Chairman of the managing board of the company.

1979
TRUMPF enters laser processing. The company manufactures its first combination punching-laser machine, the TRUMATIC 180 L, using a laser purchased in the USA. Laser output at this time is between 500 and 750 watts.

1981
The 1000th TRUMATIC of the type TRUMATIC 300 is delivered.

1985
TRUMPF decides to make its own CO₂ laser. The TRUMPF LASER TLF 1000 is developed and manufactured. It has 1 kW of beam performance and is the first compact laser resonator with RF-excitation.

1987
TRUMPF introduces a further innovation in this field: the TRUMATIC L 3000, a flatbed laser cutting center with flying optics. The work piece is no longer moved, and the processing head ›flies‹ across the metal instead.

1988
Innovations in laser development that follow within the next few years make it necessary to found a new company specializing in lasers, and TRUMPF Lasertechnik GmbH is formed.

1989
At the European Machine Tool Exhibition EMO in Hanover, the first "folded" laser is presented inside a TRUMATIC 240 Laserpress. TRUMPF has 2,400 employees and sales of DM 525 million.

1992
TRUMPF's activities in the solid-state laser sector begin with its participation in the firm of Haas Laser GmbH in Schramberg. The company is now 100-percent owned by the TRUMPF Group.

Apart from consistent expansion of the product range in the area of sheet metal fabrication by integrating further methods such as bending in 1992 and tube machining in 1999, TRUMPF is also tapping totally new fields such as medical technology. In all sectors, the company is pursuing intensive strategies of growth and innovation.

1997
The 10,000th TRUMATIC is delivered.

1998
The company quietly celebrates its 75th anniversary. The orientation towards the future determines the company’s thinking and doing. The expansion of its production capacity is a part of that. On November 20, 1998, a new laser factory is opened at the company's headquarters in Ditzingen – underlining TRUMPF's faith in Germany as a production location.

2000
With a new holding structure, the company adapts to the requirements of globalization and internationalization. TRUMPF has 4,800 employees worldwide and achieves sales of 1 billion Euros.

2001
The laser cutting machine TRUMATIC L 3050 operates thick metal with highest cutting speeds.

2003
Opening of the Sales and Service Center in Ditzingen, Germany.

2003
The company presents as a world premiere the prototype of a new 4 kW disk laser. Due to the high beam quality this laser enables new applications like scanner welding. In 2004, TRUMPF delivers the 10,000th TLF CO2 laser. Sales are at 1.22 billion euros. Laser and laser machines make up 68 percent of sales. 5,800 employees work for TRUMPF.

2005
On November 18, 2005, after 40 years leading the company, Professor Berthold Leibinger resigns from his position as president of the TRUMPF Group. He assumes the chairmanship of the supervisory board. Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller becomes new president of the Group.