This means that the earthworks can start on the approximately 45,000 square meter site "Am Innovationsfeld", on which a building complex with approximately 11,000 square meters of ground floor space for the technical units such as production and tool grinding shop and approximately 3,000 square meters of ground floor space for the administrative areas is to be built.
About 300 DATRON employees, who have so far been working at four locations in southern Hesse, will be brought together at the new main location in Ober-Ramstadt. The company sites in Mühltal, Darmstadt, Reinheim and Lindenfels-Winterkasten will be eliminated without replacement after their relocation.
Around 30 participants from politics and business attended the groundbreaking ceremony on March 31 despite extremely varied weather conditions. Among the guests were DATRON company founder Gerhard Schulte, the main shareholder of DATRON AG, Dr. Arne Brüsch, honorary mayor Werner Schuchmann and the acting mayor of Ober-Ramstadt, Tobias Silbereis.
"For our company, today marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in DATRON’s 54-year corporate history. We are very pleased that the extensive earthworks for the preparation of our new building on site will now begin in April and that the realization of a long-cherished dream will take concrete shape," commented DATRON AG’s CEO, Michael Daniel, at the groundbreaking ceremony.
About DATRON:
DATRON AG develops, produces and distributes innovative high-speed milling machines for the machining of future-oriented materials such as aluminum and composites, dental milling machines for the efficient machining of all common dental prosthesis materials in dental laboratories, high-speed milling tools as well as high-performance dispensing machines for industrial sealing and bonding applications. With the latest technologies secured by numerous patents and the integration into a comprehensive service package, DATRON offers unique solutions for customers all over the world.
DATRON machines are characterized by high quality and efficiency at very low energy consumption and are used, among others, in electrical engineering, the metal, plastics and automotive industries, aviation and dental technology. Our currently active approximately 2,000 machine customers from Germany and abroad work with about 5,000 DATRON machine systems.
DATRON is moving on a profitable growth course. In fiscal year 2021, worldwide sales of around EUR 54.2 million and EBIT of around EUR 5.5 million were achieved. Currently, DATRON employs about 290 people.
DATRON has received many awards lately: In 2020, the company has been awarded the seal of approval as TOP JOB 2020 employer as well as various Red Dot Design Awards for its machine design (most recently DATRON MXCube) and a Red Dot Communication Award for the (r)evolutionary control software DATRON next.
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