GROB anniversary logo - 80 years

Quality, innovation, and cohesion - Ready for any challenge!

Our Family Business

In 2025, we celebrated our 80th anniversary. We remain a true family-owned business: innovators, doers, drivers of quality. Highly personal, highly individual, highly committed. Short pathways, swift decisions. These are qualities our customers appreciate - then as now, and undoubtedly in the future.

With over 120 employees and a global network of partners, we are poised to tackle the toughest challenges in drive and lifting technology, in any sector!

Our values:

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    Flat hierarchies
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    Strong cohesion
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    Reliability
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Our milestones

We look back on a growing company history that always upholds its family tradition.

Foundation of the company Wilhelm GROB (iron turnery)
 
1945
First construction of a warehouse
 
1973
Foundation of Wilhelm GROB GmbH & Co KG and Grob GmbH
 
1978
Second construction of a warehouse
 
1984
Third construction: Expansion of the office building
 
1986
First proprietary product (worm gear lift)
 
1993
Establishment of E. & G. GROB Vertriebs GmbH
 
1994
Certification according to DIN EN ISO 9001
 
1999
Fourth construction of a warehouse
 
2000
New managing director is Gerhard Pfeil
 
2003
Expansion of the product portfolio
 
2004
Expansion by 1200 m² (12,900 sq ft) for assembly, warehouse, and office → Fifth construction of the hall
 
2005
Merger of E. & G. GROB Vertriebs GmbH with Grob GmbH and simultaneous change of ownership (Grob family sells to Gerhard Pfeil)
 
2006
65th anniversary of the company
 
2010
Expansion by 1000 m² (10,800 sq ft) for assembly and shipping
 
2012
First textbook on fundamentals of linear drive technology & introduction of Linear Chains in various sizes
 
2014
Takeover of management by Eugen Reimche
 
2016
Introduction of the MINI Actuator
 
2018
Opening of our daycare center 'Pfeil's Weltentdecker'
 
2021
New raw materials warehouse with over 1,000 m²
 
2020
Start of the sales partnership with I&F for High-Precision Ball Screws and construction of a new office tower
 
2025

GROB informs you

GROB Informiert 2025 Korrektur compressed

2025

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GROB GmbH Drive Technology

Eberhard-Layher-Straße 5-9

74889 Sinsheim

Germany


Opening hours:

Monday – Thursday: 7am – 4pm

Friday: 7am – 3pm

Saturday – Sunday: closed