Introduction of the new HAND GUARD sliding table saw.

• The Altendorf Group GmbH takes over the Maschinenbau Hebrock GmbH as well as the EBM Maschinenbau GmbH for the 25th April 2018.

• Altendorf is taken over by the Altendorf Group.
• The Altendorf family exits the company completely and sells the majority of its shares to the Dutch investor Avedon Capital Partners.
• From LIGNA 2017, Altendorf distributes the SCHELLING S 45 panel saw throughout Germany. As a saw specialist, Altendorf is responsible for the initial consultation and for marketing in Germany. The Schelling experts take over the service and installation of the machine at Altendorf customers.
• The special model F 45-Edition 111 commemorates 111 years of ALTENDORF sawing technology. Special feature: Production of 111 format saws with a design panel (front of the machine), which shows 111 annual rings.
• Until 2017, approx. 150,000 machines were manufactured at ALTENDORF.

marketing launch of the ALTENDORF F 45 with new control concept: ElmoDrive, ProDrive and EvoDrive

• Besides the managing shareholder Tom Altendorf, two new managing directors have been ordered:
• Jörg F. Mayer takes over the executive board "distribution"; he is already active in different departments since 2001, i.a. since 2009 as managing director at the Altendorf location in Qinhuangdao/ China.
• Wolfgang Ruhnau takes over the commercial managing board of the Altendorf group. He's already responsible since 2002 for the Ressort finances/controlling and was also authorised officer of the group.
• Thus Altendorf has lead the transition into the next generation as family company. Wilfried Altendorf accompanies furthermore the company as managing director and chairman of the advisory board.

Launch of the model F45 ELMO III D - machine with bilateral pivoting blade

The company produces in Germany, Brazil and China, another site in India ist planned; spare parts for models that back to the year 1936 are stored.

Introduction: parallelogram cross slide; voltage in vacuum sliding The company is producing about 4500 machines per year and advertises with 130,000 Altendorf machines produced in the 100-year history.

Opening of new sales and service center in Minden; 100-year anniversary; the new generation F 45 and F 45 ELMO (anthracite) is presented

Kurt Altendorf dies; construction of the sales and logistics center in Minden; introduction of the WA 6

Introduction of the WA 8

Siegfried Thiele retired from the company; introduction of the WA 80

Tom Altendorf joins the company

Acquisition of machinery Müller Minden mbH; world record: The 100,000st machine leaves the factory; innovation: user-guided machine control

Establishment of Altendorf Asia, introducing the three Altendorf series F 45, F45 ELMO, F 45 POSIT / c.a.t.s.; panel sizing program POSIT / c.a.t.s.

Expansion of the administrative building in Minden; introducing: TIP-SERVO Drive

Death of Willy Altendorf; establishment of Altendorf Qinhuangdao; Introduction of the F45 POSIT cats - the first sliding table saw in the world with interface for PC and four CNC-controlled axes; RAPIDO scoring system ; VARIO drive: infinitely adjustable actuator of the saw unit

Presentation of the new generation of panel saws with CNC control: the introduction of the POSIT-series

Kurt Altendorf retired from active business life.

Electromotive adjustment of the rip fence is presented

Establishment of Altendorf in Australia

New: Double-sided fence

The first foreign subsidiary in the U.S.

The hydraulic axe adjustment is introduced.

First annual production of 3000 saws; innovation: pivoting blade

Commissioning of today's factory on the Wettiner Avenue / Minden; the protective hood with integrated suction is introduced

Willy Altendorf and Siegfried Thiele take over the management.

Innovation: concrete-steel composite construction of the machine stand

Innovation: scoring unit

First annual production of 1,000 units

Introduction of mass production; the world's first aluminum sliding table; henceforth the focus is solely on the design and production of panel saws

Death of company founder Wilhelm Altendorf

New construction of the sliding table

The sons Willy and Kurt join the company

Relocation of the factory to Minden, Westphalia

Establishment and invention of the sliding-table saw 'System Altendorf' by Wilhelm Altendorf in Berlin