HOLLFELDER-GUHRING

What HOLLFELDER-GUHRING does

HOLLFELDER-GÜHRING GmbH is a German precision cutting tool manufacturer founded in 1980 and headquartered in Nürnberg, with a second manufacturing location in Lützen/Zorbau. The company designs and manufactures tooling for CNC, turning, milling, grinding, laser, and eroding machines, serving the metal cutting industry with a focus on μm-accurate tolerances for automotive series production and general engineering customers. The company employs approximately 180 staff and operates as a subsidiary within the Gühring group (Albstadt, Germany), which provides a worldwide distribution and service network.

The product portfolio spans five core families: adjustment systems (eccentric, tapered screw, radial, and micro-adjustment mechanisms), milling cutters (including HPC Face Mills with up to 27 cutting edges on 125mm diameter and feed rates up to 60,000 mm/min), fine boring tools (6-130mm diameter range, including the GA200-VARIO system), turning tools (boring bars from 4mm diameter), and SMART SETTING MOTION TOOLS with retractable insert mechanisms. The company works with carbide, cermet, PCD, and CBN cutting materials and offers tangential insert tools as a newer line. In-house capabilities include laser shaping, PVD-coating, and a service center for tool regeneration and regrinding.

The business model combines standard catalog hardware sales with custom/special tool development and tool regeneration services. Pricing is quote-based with no public disclosure, supported by direct enterprise field sales through the Gühring group network and regional distribution partners in Brazil, Italy, and Singapore. The company is privately held with two managing directors (Jochen Bitzer and Bernd Schwanz), is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified across both locations, and complies with the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act and REACH regulation. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

HOLLFELDER-GUHRING

Legal name

HOLLFELDER-GÜHRING GmbH

Website

https://hollfelder-cuttingtools.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

HOLLFELDER-GÜHRING is a German precision cutting tool manufacturer (180 employees) specializing in μm-accurate adjustment systems, milling cutters, fine boring tools, and turning tools for the metal cutting and automotive series production industries, operating as part of the Gühring group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Cutting Tools

NAICS

Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing (333515)

SIC

Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (3541)

akta.pro primary industry

Metal Cutting Tools, Tooling & Workholding (Cutters, Inserts, Chucks, Fixtures) (IMAHADAB)

Keywords

• Precision cutting tools
• CNC milling cutters
• Fine boring tools
• PCD CBN inserts
• Metalworking tooling

Headquarters

HQ city

Nuremberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Precision Tool Sales: Sale of standard and custom precision metal cutting tools including adjustment systems, milling cutters, fine boring tools, turning tools, and drilling/chamfering tools. Tools feature carbide, cermet, PCD, and CBN cutting materials. Both standard product lines and customer-specific special tooling solutions.
2. Tool Regeneration and Regrinding Services: Regeneration service for PCD and CBN inserts with approximately 20% credit for returned inserts against new insert pricing. Regrinding service for tool inserts with recommendation to regrind complete sets (maximum 3 regrinds per insert). Complete service including measuring/checking, adjusting, balancing, regrinding, and regeneration available.
3. Custom/Special Tool Development: Design and manufacture of customer-specific tooling solutions based on individual requirements. Engineers and technicians work closely with customers to develop precision tools for µm-accurate machining of complex contours. Standard program serves as basis for innovative special solutions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HOLLFELDER-GUHRING manufactures and sells precision cutting tools for CNC metal-cutting operations, including milling cutters, fine boring tools, drilling and chamfering tools, and turning tools made from carbide, cermet, PCD, and CBN. The company complements its standard catalogue with SMART SETTING MOTION TOOLS and customer-specific special tools, and provides tool regeneration (regrinding and recoating) and application-engineering services to industrial customers.

Product overview

HOLLFELDER-GÜHRING manufactures precision cutting tools for metal machining as part of the Gühring group. The product portfolio centers on five core product families: (1) Adjustment Systems providing μm-accurate positioning via eccentric, tapered screw, radial, and micro-adjustment mechanisms; (2) Milling Cutters including HPC Face Mills for aluminum machining (finish and rough/cubing variants), put-on milling cutters, HSK-monobloc cutters, end mills, and disc mills; (3) Fine Boring Tools for 6-130mm diameters with tapered screw or radial adjustment, including the GA200-VARIO system; (4) Turning Tools comprising boring bars (from 4mm), mini-boring bars (from 5mm), and ISO-cartridges; and (5) SMART SETTING MOTION TOOLS with retractable mechanisms for high-tolerance applications. The portfolio also includes drilling/chamfering tools and tangential insert systems. All products support various cutting materials (carbide, PCD, CBN, cermet) and can be customized for specific customer requirements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HPC Face Mills: High-performance cutting face mills for finish and rough machining of aluminum alloys with extremely high feed rates
• SMART SETTING MOTION TOOLS
• Tangential Inserts
• GA200-VARIO

Products and services

• Adjustment systems (Verstelleinrichtungen) A line of precision diameter-adjustment systems — including eccentric, tapered-screw, radial, and micro-adjustment mechanisms — that allow users to fine-tune milling and boring tools in the machine down to 0.003 mm increments. Designed for CNC machining operations requiring tight tolerances and reduced setup time.
• HPC Face Mills (HPC Planfräser)
• GA200-VARIO fine boring tools
• Drilling and chamfering tools (Bohr- und Senkwerkzeuge)
• Turning tools (Drehwerkzeuge)
• SMART SETTING MOTION TOOLS
• Customer-specific special tools (Sonderwerkzeuge)
• Tool regeneration (regrinding and recoating)

Quantifiable outcome

• Tool life improvement factor 2 to 5 compared to conventional solutions
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered regional and core.

• Sanposs Ltda.regionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistribution partner in Brazil serving the São Paulo region. Sanposs Ltda. is located at Av. Caminho do Mar, 3179, CEP 09611-000, Jardim Fada, São Bernardo do Campo-SP, Brazil. Contact: Ricardo Santos ([email protected]) and Andreas Posselt ([email protected]), Phone: +55 11 4368-6211, Fax: +55 11 4368-9610, Website: www.sanposs.com.br
• SEF MECCANOTECNICAregionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistribution partner in Italy serving the Bologna region. SEF MECCANOTECNICA is located at Via degli Orefici Bl. 26 Centergross, I-40050 Funo (Bologna), Italy. Contact: [email protected], Phone: +39 0516648811, Fax: +39 051863059, Website: www.sefmeccanotecnica.com
• GP System PTE LtdregionalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistribution partner in Singapore serving the Southeast Asian market. GP System PTE Ltd is located at No. 51 Bukit Batok Crescent, #04-04/05 Unity Centre, Singapore 658077. Contact: Roger Ho ([email protected]), Phone: +65 6861 2663, Fax: +65 6861 3500, Website: www.gpsystem.com
• Gühring GroupcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorParent company group headquartered in Albstadt, Germany (Gühring KG, Herderstraße 50-54, 72458 Albstadt, Germany). HOLLFELDER-GÜHRING operates as part of this group, utilizing their worldwide distribution and service network for products and services. The group also provides shared services including data protection officer function ([email protected]).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• OSG Corporation: Japanese precision taps, end mills, and cutting tool manufacturer — direct peer competing in fine-precision milling and drilling tools globally, comparable in scale (~€500M revenue) and product breadth to Hollfelder-Gühring's specialty portfolio.
• Botek Präzisionsbohrtechnik GmbH: German precision deep-hole drilling and tooling specialist (Rutesheim) — direct peer serving the same automotive, hydraulics, and machining customer base with comparable focus on engineered special tooling rather than commodity catalog products.
• Walter Tools (Walter AG): German precision cutting tool manufacturer (Tübingen), now part of Sandvik — direct competitor across milling, turning, drilling, and boring tools with comparable focus on premium indexable and solid carbide tooling for the same automotive/aerospace customer base.
• Paul Horn GmbH: Privately-held German precision tooling specialist (Tübingen) — direct peer in grooving, parting, and profiling tools with strong overlap in µ-precision indexable tooling, special-tool engineering, and German automotive OEM customer base.
• Fraisa SA: Swiss-German precision cutting tool manufacturer (Bellach/Köln) — direct peer in solid carbide milling and drilling tools, competing in the same high-precision automotive and mold-making customer segments with comparable custom-tool capability.
• Gühring KG: Parent company headquartered in Albstadt, Germany — the largest direct peer and the operator of Hollfelder-Gühring. Manufactures rotary cutting tools (drills, end mills, taps, reamers) with global production and service footprint, sharing customer overlap in the same German metal-cutting customer base.
• MAPAL Dr. Kress KG: Privately-held German precision tooling specialist (Aalen) — direct competitor in fine boring, reaming, and milling tools. Highly comparable family-owned Mittelstand player with similar focus on µm-accurate, customer-engineered tooling for automotive and industrial OEMs.

Broad incumbents

• Sandvik Coromant: Sweden-headquartered cutting tools division of Sandvik AB — broad incumbent competitor across milling, turning, drilling, and boring with full global coverage and substantially greater R&D and digital-twin tool investment than Hollfelder-Gühring.
• Mitsubishi Materials Corporation: Japan-headquartered broad incumbent in cemented carbide and cutting tools — competes across indexable inserts, milling cutters, and boring tools with significantly larger scale and global manufacturing footprint, overlapping in automotive and industrial customer segments.
• Kennametal Inc. US-listed broad incumbent in metalworking tooling (Pittsburgh, PA) — competes across indexable inserts, milling, turning, and tooling systems with significantly larger scale, global footprint, and exposure to the same automotive and aerospace end markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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