WENDT Group

About

WENDT is a group of companies whose center is the WENDT GmbH at Meerbusch, Germany. Added to other registered offices the plants Niederstetten and Jena are part of the WENDT GmbH. WENDT means the concentration on and specialization in the development of grinding technologies for hard materials, such as steel, glass, hard metal, ceramic, and the polycrystalline materials PCD and CBN. Founded in 1920 as a trading company for diamond grinding tools, the company WENDT developed rapidly after extending the manufacturing program and starting the development and production of grinding machines. Already in 1965 the first fully automatic machine for grinding the periphery of cutting inserts was produced. At the same time the manufacturing program of machines and tools was extended. The use of CNC systems, robots and vision systems combined with efficient grinding tools further strengthened the leading position in the specific market segments.