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Diehl Automotive history
Diehl Automotive company history timeline
The end of the East-West conflict in the early ‘90s, and the resulting need to reorientate German military engineering, sees Diehl gradually terminate its dealings with Mauser by 1995 to focus more on developing and manufacturing modern ammunition for various applications.
The rapid decline in military products resulting from the end of the East-West opposition forces the previously independent Diehl ammunition facilities in Röthenbach und Mariahütte/Maasberg to be merged into one ammunition business unit in 1995.
Bavarian Minister President Doctor Edmund Stoiber officially launches a new indirect extruder at the Röthenbach facility in 1998.
To secure the Diehl Group’s role as an independent family business for generations to come, Karl Diehl orders that the company be renamed Diehl Stiftung & Co in 1998.
Together with the BGT area of controls and navigation, Diehl Avionik Systeme GmbH is founded in 1999, pooling Diehl’s activities in the fields of electronic flight and engine controls, digital display systems, onboard computers and sensors.
The “Geräte” (equipment) subgroup is integrated into Diehl VA Systeme in 2001.
As requested by international customers, Diehl Controls opens new production facilities abroad in quick succession, starting with Diehl Controls (Nanjing) in China in 2001.
Hydrometer, a company previously run privately by the Diehl family, joins the Diehl Group in 2003.
A major investment is made in 2004 to expand the Sundwig strip rolling mill for further developments in continuous strip casting systems.
By signing the contract for series production of the air-to-air IRIS-T guided missile in 2004, Diehl secures the biggest contract in its company history.
In 2006, Diehl takes over the majority share of Diehl BGT Defence, becoming the company’s full owner.
Minister President Doctor Günther Beckstein opens Diehl Metall’s new steel synchro ring production plant in Röthenbach in 2007, which has been built to cater to the growing demand.
In 2012, Thales cedes its shares in Diehl Aircabin to Diehl.
Schempp & Decker in Berlin joins these in 2012.
Diehl takes over AOA Apparatebau Gauting GmbH in the summer of 2014, and integrates the company into the Aerosystems subgroup.
106 precious copper engravings and etchings and 37 wood carvings by Nuremberg master Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) from Karl Diehl’s estate are give as a gift to the City of Nuremberg by his family in spring 2016.
In February 2017, Diehl Defence Holding GmbH, the lead company for the defence business of the Diehl Group and Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co.
Also in 2018, Diehl Metering keeps extending its partnership network and enters new cooperations, among others, with Microsoft Azure.
In summer 2018, the completion of shell construction was celebrated at Nürnberger Pellerhof.
In 2019, at Diehl Metall, the former ZIMK Zehdenick Innovative Metall- und Kunststofftechnik GmbH (Berlin) changed its name to Diehl Advanced Mobility GmbH. The new company name reflects the company's innovative capabilities for a future-oriented market presence.
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