
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.

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.

Further development of manual
machines
1973
- Further development as WS 11-A.
1977
- Further development as WS 11-SP (spiral).
1978
- Further development as RS 3-AP.
1979
- Development of RS10 as successor of the RS 3.

Growth and diversification
1980
- Start of development of the RS series with manufacture of the RS 12 as successor of the RS 10.
1983
- Design of the LS 01 lapping grinding machine and of the AS 40 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).

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.

- 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.

- 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.