History
Intro
EWAG has been writing grinding history since 1946. EWAG developed from a small enterprise into an internationally active company with approximately 150 employees. Its former pioneering spirit is also reflected in its present-day products, and is impressively demonstrated by the quality and quantity of its innovations.
1946
Foundation of Edel-Werkzeug AG by Dr. H. Pfluger, G. Vogt-Schild, Dr. H. Vogt and Director O. Remund in Solothurn on November 6, 1946.
The first manufacturing premises were in Zuchwil and in a garage in Biberist.
July 24, 1951
Development of manual machines
- Start of production in a shed on the present Sulzer area in Zuchwil with a workforce of 30 people.
- Ewag's origins lay in tool production (e.g. grinding hard metal lathe tools)
1954-1957
1954
- Construction of the WS10 prototype and a first series of three machines.
1955
- Design of the legendary WS11.
1957
- Presentation of the WS11 at Hanover trade fair.
1962-1968
Design of manual machines for PCD
1962/64
- Development of the RS2 radius grinding machine
1963
- Purchase of Factory 1 in Etziken.
1968
- Further development as RS3 with different variants
1973-1979
Further development of manual
machines
1973
- Further development as WS11-A.
1977
- Further development as WS11 SP (spiral).
1978
- Further development as RS3-AP.
1979
- Development of RS10 as successor of the RS3
1980-1986
Growth and diversification
1980
- Start of development of the RS series with manufacture of the RS12 as successor of the RS10.
1982 and 1983
- Design of the LS01 lapping grinding machine and of the AS40 drill sharpening machine.
1984
- Development of the FS600 cutter grinding machine.
- Opening of subsidiary, the Ewag Corporation, in Smithfield, Rhode Island (USA) on 1st September.
1986
- Presentation of the first CNC machine, the RS 12, at IMTS Chicago (USA).
1993-1999
CNC Machinery Development
1993
- Development of EWAMATIC.
1994
- Inclusion of the RS15 in Ewag's product portfolio and production start for the first generation of EWAMATIC.
1997
- Construction start of new building for the Ewag Corporation in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (USA).
1999
- Further development of the EWAMATIC LINE.
- Development of the first EASYGRIND prototypes.
2000-2009
Modernization and new development
2000
- Development of the first ROTOLINE prototypes.
- New main shareholder of Ewag AG: Körber Schleifring, Hamburg.
2007
- Further development of the EASYGRIND with a pallet system and robot. Delivery of the 3000th WS11 as Special Golden Edition at EMO.
- Presentation of the COMPACT LINE at EMO.
2008
- Modernization of the WS11 and WS11-SP.
2010
- Presentation of the newly developed INSERT LINE and LASER LINE at the demo days at the Ewag premises in Etziken.
2010
- Collaboration with our sister company Walter Maschinenbau GmbH in Tübingen, Germany is intensified, to enable us to offer our customers a complete range of tool machining services.
- Grinding, eroding, laser machining, measuring, software and services from a single source!
2013
- The Schleifring Group becomes the UNITED GRINDING Group.
- The new machine design of the UNITED GRINDING Group will be presented at the EMO in Hanover.
2017
- The EMO will see the premiere presentation of the newly developed 6th axis of the COMPACT LINE.
- The machine is used for grinding hard metal, ceremet, ceramic, PCB and PCD indexable inserts.
- With incredibly powerful technology in the smallest possible space, the COMPACT LINE sets a new benchmark in the versatile manufacture of reversible plates.