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The Hilti AG is a tool manufacturer and a specialist for the attachment technology, to which in such a manner with its pneumatic drilling hammer it admits became that Hilti is used as synonym for these devices.

Beginnings

The enterprise was created 1941 by the brothers Martin Hilti (1915-1997) and Eugen Hilti (1911-1964) in Schaan, Principality of Liechtenstein, where this very day the head office is; at that time 5 coworkers were busy. First one manufactured turned parts for different companies, starting from 1945 besides components for textile machines in the processed-out order. The latter provided an important branch of the enterprise dar.1950 for the next 15 years brought to Hilti first self-developed firing equipment Perfix on the market and developed increasingly toward attachment technology.

Drilling hammers

1967 started the probably most well-known product row of the enterprise, the pneumatic drilling hammers with the Hilti width unit 17. This concerns tools in the size of an attained full growth drill press, the special effectively in stone to bore can and therefore on the building fast spread: contrary to percussion drills the drilling hammers produce the impacts necessary for the propulsion not mechanically with a ratchet, but much more effectively pneumatically. Hilti held a patent this system, so that there were such machines long time of no other company to buy. Thus the designation Hilti resulted as synonym for the pneumatic drilling hammer.

The enterprise today

Hilti busily world-wide approximately 16,000 coworkers and maintains addresses in approximately 120 countries, the conversion amounts to for the year 2005 for instance CHF 3.638 billion between the year 1986 and 2003 the shares of the enterprise at the stock exchange was acted, whereby meanwhile all portions are in the fortune of the Hilti Familientrusts. Since the year 1990 Michael Hilti at the point stands for the Hilti AG. Since the Hilti AG invests very much money in research and development as well as into the personnel satisfaction, it was distinguished 2003 with the renowned Carl Bertelsmann price.

The head office of Hilti Germany is in purchase ring, in the Upper Bavarian district Landsberg at the Lech.