History

History

1953 Francis Rollier establishes Rollier SA, a cutting tool manufacturing firm for the local watch industry at La Neuveville, Switzerland
1976 First manual pointing grinder developed for in-house use
1977 First manual flute & relief grinder called "Roll-o-Matic" for in-house use
1980 Sales structure began to export manual machines throughout Europe for the first time
1981 First manual machine exported to Japan
1985 First CNC Grinder for pointing was developed with a (patented) positioning system
1986 Export begins for manual and CNC machines to the USA
1988 Tool Division Rollier SA sold to Dixi 4
1989 Conversion of the company to Rollomatic SA focused on the manufacturing of grinding machines for the cutting tool industry
1992 First Cylindrical grinder with simultaneous roughing and finishing operations (patented)
1993 First CNC fully-automatic 6 axis grinding center: CNC600X
1994 Rollomatic Inc. (Mundelein-Chicago, USA) is launched as a subsidiary company
1996 Market launch of transfer machine, the MicroGrind 2000X, for the PCB industry
1998 Rollomatic Taiwan (Taoyuan, Taiwan) is launched as a subsidiary company
1999 Rollomatic Deutschland (Nordrach, Deutschland) is launched as a subsidiary company
2001 Debut of the world's first fully-hydrostatic 6-axis grinding center: the GrindSmart 6000XL
2002 Completion of the new headquarters and production plant with 5400 m² (58'000 sqf.) at Le Landeron, Switzerland
2003 Expansion of Rollomatic USA into a new building with increased capacity for test grinding and training
2007 Opening of the Rollomatic application and spare parts center for Asia in Hong Kong
2007 opening of the Rollomatic France branch office
2007 opening of the Rollomatic India branch office in Jaipur