We're not quite at our landmark anniversary, but there's still plenty to celebrate – 95 years of TRUMPF

The first product is the flexible shafts. At first, these are only produced for dental and printing requirements. With the development of the motorized drive, they are also manufactured for industrial purposes, for example for processing metal and wood.

TRUMPF's success in the period of Germany's economic miracle is closely linked with the inventiveness of the young Berthold Leibinger, who launches an innovative and profitable machine for sheet metal processing – the copy nibbling machine. As a result, TRUMPF is increasingly called the "king of nibblers".

Berthold Leibinger makes another innovation in the field of power tools in 1963 – he develops a new, handy TKF beveler. In a complete reversal of the previous process, it enables the worker to produce bevel edges by gradually processing sheet metal. Its great success opens the door to further investment.

After Berthold Leibinger came into contact with numerically controlled machine tools in the USA, he decides to try to develop a numerically controlled copy punching machine himself in the mid-1960s. His courage pays off – the TRUMATIC 20 is a sensation at the European machine tools exhibition in Paris in 1968.

Despite the enduring success of the copy nibbling machine, Leibinger analyzes what has been achieved up to that point, and in 1978 he investigates personally whether the then much-discussed CO₂ laser could be used for sheet metal cutting during a trip to the USA. He presents the first combined punch laser machine with beam sources from the USA just one year later.

From 1985 TRUMPF sets a milestone in the industry with the first CO₂ laser developed and produced in house, the TRUMPF laser TLF 1000. Four years later, the first "folded" laser from TRUMPF comes onto the market. Even today, it is the top-selling multi-kilowatt laser in the world.

TRUMPF unveils another innovation in the laser sector in 1987 – the TRUMATIC L 3000 is a laser flatbed machine with flying optics. The highlight of this machine is that instead of the workpiece being moved, the processing head "flies" over the sheet metal.

The TRUMPF sales department has been travelling around Germany with its "mobile showroom" since the 1960s; this enables the customer to test new curve shears on site directly from the vehicle.

TRUMPF power tools travel through Tokyo in a Toyopet Crown at the end of the 1960s. Christian Trumpf relies on local trade and sales partners here to introduce products to customers in the national language.

Due to the specially produced demonstration vehicle from the then Parisian commercial agency TECHNOM, French sheet metal processors also benefit from individual presentations of the latest power tools and sheet metal cutting machines from 1960.

Both the reliability of TRUMPF machines and the availability of the Technical Service accelerate the company's success in Europe in the 1970s. Customers in Spain also value the individual Technical Service.

In 2011 the laser truck tours through Germany for four weeks as a "rolling showroom" and introduces customers to TRUMPF's large range of laser components under the motto of "The Power of Choice".

Christian Trumpf acquires the mechanical workshops of Julius Geiger GmbH in Stuttgart in 1923; ten years later they are already too small for the industrial production of flexible shafts. This is why the company moves to a larger production site in Weilimdorf in 1933.

During Germany's economic miracle around 1950, TRUMPF achieves an annual turnover of 11 million Deutschmark and employs around 300 employees. Berthold Leibinger, born in a neighboring town and godson of Christian Trumpf, starts his apprenticeship at the Weilimdorf site.

Curve shears are also sold successfully around the world in the mid-1950s. In order to increase production capacity, TRUMPF opens a second site in Hettingen in the Swabian Jura in Germany in 1955 for the first time.

TRUMPF's first foreign production site isn't in Europe, but rather in Farmington (Connecticut) where the sales company TRUMPF America Inc. is founded in 1969. The aim is to establish TRUMPF in the United States early, as at that time the global market for machine tools is mainly dominated by US companies.

TRUMPF founds the first foreign subsidiary in Zug in Switzerland in 1963. Leibinger gradually transfers the development, production, and sales of all power tools to TRUMPF Grüsch AG in the Canton of Grisons from the 1980s onwards. The moderate work costs and the high level of productivity have also made Grüsch an attractive production location for machine tools since 1985.

In 1972 TRUMPF relocates its site from Weilimdorf to the neighboring town Ditzingen, where it benefits from the improved transport and production conditions.

The headquarters are still in the same building today, which was renovated completely in 2013. The architecture firm Barkow Leibinger provides an attractive work environment with award-winning constructions such as the staff canteen "Blautopf" and the laser-cut main entrance.