PRECISION TURNED PARTS AT HERBRIG & CO.
60 YEARS OF EXPERTISE – WHO WE ARE
Dreherei Herbrig & Co. GmbH stands for more than 60 years of precision mechanics in the best Saxon tradition. As a medium-sized family business from the Müglitz Valley, we are part of a historically grown business location that is known far beyond the local borders for its precision industry. The name Herbrig stands for high quality standards in precision turned parts. 200 employees and over 170 CNC sliding headstock lathes, CNC short lathes and rotary transfer machines ensure that well over 170 million CNC turned parts find their way to our customers every year.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY
On September 1, 1956, Egon Herbrig founded the company Herbrig & Co. GmbH as a precision engineering workshop in Bärenstein. Exactly two years later, on September 1, 1958, the company was transformed into the “PGH Feinmechanik” production cooperative. The reason for this were state economic measures in the GDR.
On 1 September 1972, the company was finally nationalized by force. The state-owned company was now called VEB Elektronische Erzeugnisse Bärenstein.
On 1 May 1985, the company became the “Elektronische Erzeugnisse Bärenstein” division of VEB PENTACON Dresden in the Carl Zeiss Jena combine as part of a reorganisation.
After the collapse of the GDR in November 1989, the Herbrig family and their business partners were able to take the company back into private ownership. On September 1, 1990, they founded what is now Herbrig & Co. GmbH Bärenstein. Within a short time, the company became one of the leading companies for precision turned parts in Saxony.
In the 2009 financial year, Christoph Herbrig took over the company as managing partner from Egon Herbrig.
The beginning of the 2010 financial year saw the start of a comprehensive expansion of production capacity for our customers’ precision turned parts. More than 90 CNC short lathes, CNC long lathes and rotary transfer machines were now available.
We have invested around EUR 400,000 in environmental protection this year: a 160 kWp photovoltaic system was installed, which covers up to 25% of our energy requirements in appropriate weather conditions. Other measures include the renewal of the air compressors, the installation of LED strip lighting and the purchase of electric vehicles.
The largest investment (approx. EUR 16.8 million) in the company’s history was realized with a new 2,000 m² building and the expansion of production capacity to more than 130 production machines. The turning shop is now able to produce up to 130 million precision turned parts per year.
Time-lapse video of the new production hall construction
Our sister company HK Präzisionsteile GmbH was founded. This expands our capacity for the production of precision turned parts up to 400mm and milled parts up to 500x500x500mm. In the following year, HK Präzisionsteile GmbH takes over the turning shop of Telegärtner Gerätebau GmbH. More than 250 highly qualified employees now manufacture customer-specific turned parts and milled parts from quantities of 1 to 10,000,000 on more than 180 turning, multi-spindle and rotary transfer machines.
In the 2020 financial year, the approx. 600 sqm logistics hall with space for more than 400 pallets was built. We were also able to build another production hall with 600 sqm of space.
By expanding our machine park with the first five Tornos Nano 4 lathes, we are strengthening our profile for the production of small CNC turned parts.
We were able to comprehensively modernize our training workshop. Visit our website www.werde-zerspaner.de for a virtual tour.
Our machine park grows by 10 additional turning and rotary transfer machines to 145 turning and rotary transfer machines. Today, more than 175 highly qualified employees work daily on the production of more than 120,000,000 precision turned parts according to your specifications.
We continued to invest! Our machine park grows by 10 more turning and Our machine park grows to more than 170 turning and rotary transfer machines. The capacities increase to more than 150 million turned parts, which our 180 highly qualified employees produce according to your specifications.
WHY MANUFACTURE WITH HERBRIG
MÜGLITZTAL LOCATION
Just a few kilometres away from the watchmaking town of Glashütte, Herbrig & Co. GmbH today represents the best tradition of Saxon precision mechanics.
The Müglitz Valley economic area is a valley landscape along the Müglitz stream in the Ore Mountains, with the internationally renowned watchmaking town of Glashütte/Saxony at its center. The Müglitz Valley is located in the district of Saxon Switzerland – Eastern Ore Mountains and stretches from the upper Ore Mountains (Geising) to the mouth of the Elbe (Heidenau).
Similar to regions such as the so-called Leuna-Wolfen-Bitterfeld chemical triangle or the concentration of furniture manufacturers in the Paderborn area, companies in the precision industry are concentrated in the Müglitz Valley. It is clear that the people of the regions are the decisive factor in the establishment of companies in similar sectors. The “precision knowledge” of the skilled workers is a major asset in the region.
History
After the start of mining around 1490 and the superficial extraction of ore, Saxony and the Müglitz Valley achieved relative prosperity. However, the rapid depletion of ore deposits, the Thirty Years’ and Seven Years’ Wars and the outbreak of the plague impoverished the region. The brief recovery through the reopening of previously unprofitable mines thanks to advances in mechanization, drive and mining technology was short-lived. In 1843, the Royal Saxon State Government decided to promote the establishment of industries in the impoverished region. The watchmaker Ferdinand Adolf Lange founded a watch company in 1845. Julius Assmann followed in 1850 and Moritz Großmann in 1854 with the establishment of their own watch manufactories.
