History Of Hatebur

1930

Fritz Hatebur, a graduate mechanical engineer, establishes a design office in Germany for building and refurbishing machines for drawing, pressing, stamping, punching on Konigstrasse (King Street) in Neuss on the Rhine. He invents a revolutionary automatic turret-type hot forging press,and designs automatic nut punching and bolt trimming machines.

1933

Fritz Hatebur moves to Basel Switzerland, with his family and a car full of engineering drawings. He proceeds to develop an innovative coldforming system that becomes an immediate success and lands him orders from Germany, France, Poland, Lithuania, Yugoslavia and Egypt.

1939

World War II: All borders closed, nobody's buying Hatebur machines. So Fritz Hatebur invents a new type of bicycle pedal, develops wood carburetors for car engines, designs a series of centerless grinding machines, and in his spare time, keeps improving the hot forgings machine and the coldforming system.

1945

The war ends and so does Hatebur's perilous pioneering era. The market for metalforming machines picks up, slowly at first, and then faster and faster in the fifties and sixties. Hatebur grows with it and contributes to the industry's growth with a series of outstanding developments.

1948

The first fully automatic three-station hot forging machine for nuts with horizontally arranged tools is built and delivered to a Dutch customer.

1949

First European transfer coldheader with three forming stations for screws and bolts. It's called the BKA 6.

1951

Hatebur is awarded a patent on a process for the chipless production of hexhead bolts on multi-station presses.

1954

After a hair-raising eight-week test series in a German ball bearing factory, Hatebur succeeds in producing ball bearing races on the Hotformer that had previously been used only for nuts. In the years to come, Hatebur Hotformers are used virtually all over the world for producing bearing races.

1958

Start of systematic tool development service for customers. A tool making shop is set up to perform test tooling.

1964

The AMP 70 with a forging load of 1200 metric tons goes into production after a five-year development period to become the biggest automatic forging machine of its day.

1966

Development of a process for working brass parts on Hatebur Hotformers.

1968

Hatebur Development Center opens its doors: with test center, tool making shop, hardening shop and laboratory.

1971

Prototype of the ESA control unit for Hotmatic Hotformers, which opens the way to fully automatic operation by discarding bar ends automatically.

1978

Coldmatic Coldformer with high-speed shearing system unveiled at the EMO in Hanover.

1981

Development of the HFE process for forward extrusion on the Hotmatic Hotformers.

1988

First metalforming machine that changes its own tools: the Hotmatic AMP 40S with Hydroblock tool changer.

1999

Variblock quick-change system for Coldmatic Coldformers.