Gildemeister
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Gildemeister is a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mechanical engineering company and machine tool builder headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a leading manufacturer of machine tool
Machine tool
A machine tool is a machine, typically powered other than by human muscle , used to make manufactured parts in various ways that include cutting or certain other kinds of deformation...

s and their controls (such as computer numerical control
Numerical control
Numerical control refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to controlled manually via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone...

). Products include lathe
Lathe
A lathe is a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.Lathes are used in woodturning,...

s, milling machine
Milling machine
A milling machine is a machine tool used to machine solid materials. Milling machines are often classed in two basic forms, horizontal and vertical, which refers to the orientation of the main spindle. Both types range in size from small, bench-mounted devices to room-sized machines...

s, machining centers, and mill-turns.

The Gildemeister group has 12 factories located in Europe and Asia. Its turning machines are produced in GILDEMEISTER, GRAZIANO and FAMOT factory, its milling machines are from DECKEL MAHO GILDEMEISTER (DMG) and the ultrasonic and laser machines are from SAUER. Its products are used to machine automotive parts, mobile phone casings, plane engine parts, artificial hip joints, and laser micro cavities, etc. As of 2008, the group had nearly 6,000 employees in 70 self-operated national and international sales and service locations in 34 countries.

Since about 2009, Deckel-Maho-Gildemeister (DMG) has entered into a strategic partnership with Mori Seiki
Mori Seiki
is a Japan-based company, headquartered in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, engaged primarily in the manufacture and sale of machine tools. Since its establishment in 1948, it has grown into one of the largest machine tool builders in the world....

of Japan, yielding the DMG-Mori Seiki organization. The corporations have not merged entirely, but they intend to share engineering, marketing, service, and distribution resources where possible to enhance their competitiveness against rival firms.
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