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1943 Start-up of tool making in Auerbach under the company's name Alfred Berghaus
1945 Manufacture of tools and commodity goods for everyday use
1950 Company renamed into VEB Werkzeugfabrik
1956 Reorganization – Manufacture of machine tools and renaming into VEB Werkzeugmaschinen Auerbach.
Up to 1990:
Manufacture of conventional openside table and eccentric presses, automatic screw slotters, solid-state cutting machines, slot and keyway millers, saws, conventional and NC universal tool millers, knee-and-column type millers, knee-less-type millers, machining centers, and flexible manufacturing cells
1990 Conversion into Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH –Shift of focus placed on a series of CNC universal millers
1992 Privatization by takeover into Wagner Trading Company, Rechen – product mix extended by development of a series of bed-type millers
1996 Bankruptcy proceedings against the company
1997 Re-establishment of AUERBACH-Maschinenfabrik GmbH as part of the IXION-MAXION-AUERBACH Group Manufacture of bed-type millers, deep drilling machines and machining centers
2006 Takeover of Group by MKS Maschinenbau Holding GmbH Presentation of the first universal tool changer for both deep drilling and conventional tools
2007 Focus on key competences deep drilling and milling, Management Buy Out of MAXION

MKS Maschinenbau Holding GmbH changes name into: X-Tec Machinery Holding GmbH

Foundation of new company TIXBO in Ellefeld and Hamburg for offering service solutions for external clients on IXION-AUERBACH-Machines

Reorganizing IXION and AUERBACH into two self-sufficient companys. And Division of the product range between them

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