Multinational company
Hilti
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Company type
| Aktiengesellschaft
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Industry
| Manufacturing
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Founded
| 1941
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Headquarters
| Schaan
,
Liechtenstein
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Key people
| Martin and Eugen Hilti
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Products
| Power Tools, Anchors, Diamond Drills, Laser Products, Firestop and Fire Protection
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Number of employees
| 32,000 worldwide (2022)
[1]
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Subsidiaries
| Aeropro Eurofox
,
Den Beste Sykkel
,
Verbund
,
Ammann Group
, Intelligent Construction Tools, LLC
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Website
| hilti.com
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Hilti Corporation
(Hilti Aktiengesellschaft or Hilti AG, also known as Hilti Group) is a
Liechtensteiner
multinational
company that develops, manufactures, and markets products for the construction,
building maintenance
, energy and manufacturing industries, mainly to the professional end-user. It concentrates mainly on anchoring systems, fire protection systems, installation systems, measuring and detection tools (such as
laser levels
, range meters and line lasers), power tools (such as
hammer drills
, demolition hammers, diamond drills, cordless
electric drills
, heavy angle drills,
power saws
) and related software and services.
[2]
Hilti, a registered
trademark
of the various Hilti corporate entities, is the family name of the company's founders.
History
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1941?1946
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In 1941, the Hilti company
Maschinenbau Hilti OHG
was founded by Martin (1915?1997) and Eugen Hilti (1911?1964),
[3]
with the opening of a mechanical workshop in
Schaan, Liechtenstein
. Martin Hilti was trained in mechanical engineering and
automotive design
at the
Wismar Engineering College
and was 26 at the time of founding the company. He was also a voluntary
Waffen-SS
and functionary in the
German National Movement in Liechtenstein
as editor-in-chief for
Der Umbruch
.
[4]
[5]
The Martin Hilti Family Trust holds all of Hilti's registered shares as of 2003.
[6]
Immediately after its founding, Hilti delivered to the
German Nazis
and their
arms industry
.
[7]
Some of these were goods that were important to the war effort, such as components for tank engines or parts of
projectile fuses
. Hilti supplied the then arms companies
Maybach-Motorenbau
in Friedrichshafen and
Robert Bosch GmbH
in Stuttgart.
1947?1963
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After the war, there was a sharp decline in sales and the company was close to bankruptcy. To make ends meet Martin Hilti signed sub-contracts as diverse as grey cast iron parts for the Swiss textile industry, machining eggcups melds, or lighters and pencil sharpeners.
[8]
[9]
In the late 1940s Martin Hilti found a technology that would allow setting nails into concrete or masonry, and he acquired the original designs and the patents rights of what would later become Hilti's Direct Fastening first tool. Although promising, the technology proved to be immature, and required significant development. In the meantime, through the early 1950s, Hilti produced its own line of household products, which included a cigarette lighter, and a water-powered kitchen mixer called "Ello", which enjoyed considerable success. In 1952, with a solution that proved mature to be marketed, Hilti launched its first construction-related product, a manual tool to drive threaded studs into steel. In 1953 the company introduced its first power-actuated high-velocity fastener that allowed setting nails into concrete, called Perfix.
[10]
At this time Hilti opened offices in Italy, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Norway, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, France, Australia, Canada, and the USA. In 1963 Hilti was present in 23 countries, with a turnover of over 400 million Swiss francs.
1964?1994
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In 1964 Hilti started marketing a drill that also had a chiselling function, made by the Kocher Company, in Basel, under the name "Torna 765". After receiving customer feedback Hilti started a product development and improvement project under the name "Torna Entwicklung" (German for "Torna Development"), or "TE" for short, which has since then become the standard name for all Hilti electropneumatic tools. In 1967 the company introduced the TE17, a fully electropneumatic rotary hammer drill which featured a safety clutch, and it was shipped to customers in Hilti's first distinctive red toolbox.
The global expansion continued throughout the 1960s and by 1971, Hilti's global turnover was 376 million Swiss francs across 45 countries, including new production facilities in Austria and in Germany.
[11]
In 1974 Hilti started to develop and market
anchor bolts
, and in 1977 Hilti introduced its first
chemical anchor
product line. Two more production facilities were opened, a plastic manufacturing plant in Germany purchased in 1975 and a plant in England acquired in 1978. In 1979 the company opened another production facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, to produce anchors. During the 1980s Hilti formed market region centres for America, Europe, Africa and Asia, to improve the proximity to their customers.
1995?present
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In 1995 Hilti opened its first
Chinese
manufacturing plant in
Zhanjiang
; this plant was expanded to 55,000 square meters in 2005. Another manufacturing plant was opened in
Shanghai
in 2004. This plant employs 470 people.
[12]
Basics
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Hilti is based in
Schaan
,
Liechtenstein
, and is the
principality
's largest employer. The company employs around 30,000 people worldwide.
[1]
Hilti North America (HNA)
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Hilti has over 3,000 employees in the United States. HNA's headquarters had been located in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
, since 1979,
[13]
although it has employees in all 50 states.
[
citation needed
]
It moved its North American headquarters from Tulsa to
Plano, Texas
, by June 2015 and opened a research and development center in
Irving, Texas
.
[14]
HNA developed an employee
corporate culture
that was later adopted by the entire company worldwide. New employees complete a Basic Training Seminar in Tulsa for four weeks, and on a yearly basis employees complete a survey called GEOS (Global Employee Opinion Survey) in which they give feedback about the company.
[
citation needed
]
Hilti Northern Europe
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Hilti Northern Europe is headquartered in the Hilti Limited office in Manchester, Great Britain. The Hilti (Gt. Britain) office oversees a staff of over 1,000 in roles such as sales, engineering, marketing, finance, HR, IT, procurement and customer services.
Hilti India
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Hilti India is headquartered in the Hilti India Pvt Ltd office in
Gurugram
, Haryana. It started its direct operations in India in 1997. The Hilti India Pvt Ltd office oversees a staff of over 800 team members in roles such as sales, engineering, marketing, finance, HR, IT, procurement and customer services. They have their
stores
in 23 major cities across India.
Literature
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- Franco Ruault (2017):
Geschaftsmodell Judenhass: Martin Hilti ? ≫Volksdeutscher≪ Unternehmer im Furstentum Liechtenstein 1939?1945
(Verlag Peter Lang, Bern). doi 10.3726/978-3-653-06597-8
See also
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References
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- ^
a
b
"Hilti Company Profile"
.
Hilti corporate website
. Retrieved
15 March
2020
.
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"Hilti Corporate website"
.
Hilti Group
. Retrieved
25 October
2018
.
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Hilti: Company Milestones.
Archived
2007-09-26 at the
Wayback Machine
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Protocol of juristical investigation
in the aftermath of WW2, dated 1946-05-14
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M. Hilti's role as editor in chief
Archived
2018-10-05 at the
Wayback Machine
in the party journal "Der Umbruch" from "Volksdeutsche Bewegung in Liechtenstein"
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Hilti: Company.
Archived
2007-08-24 at the
Wayback Machine
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Bollag, Peter (2017-06-06).
"Braune Jugendsunden"
.
Judische Allgemeine
(in German)
. Retrieved
2023-09-16
.
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Hilti Corporation (September 2016).
Ready for the future
. Schaan, Liechtenstein: BVD Verlag + Druck. p. 19.
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Peter Geiger et al.: Frage zu Liechtenstein in der NS-Zeit und im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Fluchtlinge, Vermogenswerte, Kunst Rustungsproduktion. Vaduz, Zurich 2005.
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Hilti Corporation (September 2016).
Ready for the future
. Schaan, Liechtenstein: BVD Verlag + Druck. p. 21.
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Hilti Corporation (September 2016).
Ready for the future
. Schaan, Liechtenstein: BVD Verlag + Druck. p. 43.
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Hilti Production locations
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Kyle Arnold,
"Turning 30 rocks at Hilti"
,
Tulsa World
, August 8, 2009.
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Wendy Hundley,
"Tulsa-based manufacturer to move headquarters to Plano"
,
Dallas Morning News
, October 14, 2014.
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