DMG Mori Seiki Co.

DMG Mori Co., Ltd. (DMG森精機株式会社, DMG Mori Seiki Kabushiki-gaisha) (formerly Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. and DMG Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo and Nara City, engaged primarily in the manufacture and sale of machine tools.[3][4][5] Since its establishment, DMG Mori has become the largest machine tool builder in the world.[6][7]

DMG Mori Co., Ltd.
Native name
DMG森精機株式会社
TypePublic KK
TYO: 6141
IndustryMachinery
Founded(October 1948 (1948-10))
HeadquartersGlobal Headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Second Headquarters: Nara City, Nara, Japan
Key people
Masahiko Mori
(President)
Products
RevenueIncrease JPY 483,366 million (FY 2022) (EUR 3,481 million) (FY 2022)
Increase JPY 25,800 million (FY 2022) (EUR 182 million) (FY 2022)
Number of employees
12,626
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

History

DMG Mori Co., Ltd. was founded in 1948 by the three Mori brothers.[8][3] It originally produced textile machinery, but in 1958, the company entered the machine tool manufacturing industry, and by 1968, it began manufacturing numerical control (NC) lathes.[9]

In 2001, grinding machine manufacturer Taiyo Koki joined the DMG Mori Group[10] and in 2002, DMG Mori Co., Ltd. acquired business assets of Hitachi Seiki in Japan.[11] In November 2009, the U.S. headquarters were inaugurated during a four-day event.[12]

In the same year, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. entered into a strategic partnership with Germany's Gildemeister AG, which controlled the brand DMG.[13] As a result, the US operations of both companies were merged into one unit on April 1, 2010.[14] This partnership with Gildemeister AG led to the renaming of the two entites with the same name of DMG Mori in 2013,[15] and in 2016, the Japanese company acquired majority shares of the German company.[16]

In June 2018, the Tokyo Digital Innovation Center (DIC) was established,[10] along with the opening of a new plant in Pleszew, Poland the same year.[17]

Company Structure

DMG Mori Co., Ltd. is directed by President Masahiko Mori (雅彦森, Mori Masahiko), has a revenue of 3,418 million Euros and employs 12,626 individuals internationally.[4][10] The company has a dual headquarters system, with headquarters located in Shiomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo (Global headquarters) and in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.[10]

The corporate governance structure is that of a Japanese Kabushiki-gaisha.[10]

DMG Mori has a sales, service and engineering network with 16 Production sites and 113 Sales and Services sites in 43 countries and a leading global market share of 10%.[10]

The shareholders of the DMG Mori Co., Ltd. are Baillie Gifford & Co. (10.0%), Global Alpha Capital Management Ltd. (7.5%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. (3.7%), DMG Mori Seiki Employee Stock Ownership Plan (3.6%), Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (3.2%), Mori Masashiko/Mori Seiki (2.8%), Mori Manufacturing Research & Technology Foundation (2.7%), BlackRock Fund Advisors (2.7%), The Vanguard Group, Inc. (2.1%) and Norges Bank Investment Management (1.6%).[3]

DMG Mori AG

DMG Mori AG, headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany, is headed by Alfred Geißler as CEO[18] and had revenues of 2,365.7 million Euros in 2022.[19]

DMG Mori Co., Ltd., through its subsidiary, holds 87.37 % of the shares in its subsidiary DMG Mori AG.[20]

DMG Mori AG has a supervisory board, which holds a higher rank than the executive board. This supervisory board is entrusted with the tasks of appointing directors and approving major business plans and investments.[10]

DMG MORI Production sites

DMG Mori has production sites in Japan (Nara Campus, Iga Campus, Taiyo Koki and Magnescale), Germany (Pfronten, Seebach, Bielefeld and Stipshausen), Italy (Bergamo and Tortona), Poland (Pleszew) and the USA (Davis). The sites in Germany are run by the group companies Deckel Maho (Pfronten and Seebach), Gildemeister (Bielefeld) and Sauer (Stipshausen). The group companies Gital (Bergamo) and Graziano (Tortona) manage the sites in Italy and Famot (Pleszew) runs the base in Poland. DMG Mori also has a manufacturing partner in India, Lakshmi Machine Works Limited.[10] The company also operated a plant in Ulyanovsk, Russia.[21][22] In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, DMG Mori has claimed to withdrawn from the Russian market[23] but in September 2023 the Russian opposition investigating reporting web-site Agency published and article claiming that the company is continuing its operations in the country.[24]

Products and Technologies
Universal turning center for small parts

DMG Mori produces and distributes machine tools, corresponding products and measuring instruments.[4][5] The company manufactures numerically controlled (NC) machine tools like high-speed precision lathes, as well as horizontal and vertical machining centers (MCs), among other machine tools designed for diverse functions.[4][25] It also deals with machining centers, repair and restoration, engineering services and software.[3]

The company provides 5-axis and multi-axis machines and automation and digitization solutions.[10][26] It installed 100,000 machines internationally and builds 8,000 to 10,000 machines a year.[27]

Sports Involvement

DMG Mori has partnered with Red Bull Racing Honda since 2012,[28][29] and also had a partnership with the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team.[30][31] In 2020, the DMG Mori Sailing Team completed the Vendée Globe as the first Asian team with Kojiro Shiraishi as skipper.[32]

References
  1. "Integrated Report 2022" (PDF). DMG Mori. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  2. "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  3. "DMG Mori Co., Ltd". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  4. "DMG Mori Co Ltd". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  5. "DMG Mori Werkzeugmaschinenbauer bekommt Mehrheit an Ex-Gildemeister-Konzern", Handelsblatt, April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  6. "DMG森精機、独社へのTOB終了　出資比率52.54%に - 日本経済新聞". The Nikkei. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  7. Martin Wocher: "Werkzeugmaschinenbauer DMG Mori läuft auf vollen Touren", Handelsblatt, February 08, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  8. Martin Fritz: "Mönch unter Maschinen", Wirtschaftswoche, February 02, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  9. "【DMG森精機】M&Aで成長する世界最大の工作機械メーカー | M＆A Online - M&Aをもっと身近に。". maonline.jp (in Japanese). December 21, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  10. "Integrated Report 2022" (PDF). DMG Mori. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  11. "DMG Mori to rejigger production in Japan". Nikkei Asia. April 19, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  12. "Mori Seiki Unveils New U.S. Headquarters". American Machinist. November 15, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  13. "Werkzeugmaschinenbauer Gildemeister und Mori Seiki kooperieren", Handelsblatt, March 23, 2009. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  14. "DMG and Mori Seiki Officially Combine US Operations 4/1/10". Aerospace Manufacturing and Design. March 11, 2010. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  15. "Ex-Gildemeister zurück auf Rekordkurs", Handelsblatt, October 29, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  16. "DMG Mori wird japanisch - Kapitza verlässt den Vorstand", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 07, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  17. Martin Krause: "DMG Mori droht Enteignung in Russland", Neue Westfälische, March 17, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  18. "Alfred Geißler neuer Vorstandsvorsitzender der DMG Mori AG". nc-fertigung.de (in German). May 25, 2023. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  19. "DMG MORI erzielt TOP-Geschäftsjahr 2022". de.dmgmori-ag.com (in German). March 15, 2023. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  20. "DMG Mori Aktiengesellschaft Geschäftsbericht 2022" (PDF). dmgmori-ag.com. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  21. Julia Gesemann: "DMG Mori eröffnet neues Werk in Russland", Neue Westfälische, October 01, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  22. "DMG Mori spielt die russische Karte", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 01, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  23. "DMG Mori zieht in Russland den Stecker", Börsen-Zeitung, March 17, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
  24. "Российский ВПК продолжил получать немецкие станки после начала войны". Агентство (in Russian). September 28, 2023. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
  25. Sven Winkler, Marco Schumann, Philipp Klimant: "Vom Digitalen zum Virtuellen Zwilling", Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, Edition October 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  26. Rüdiger Kroh: "Mit fünf Achsen zur Rundumbearbeitung", Maschinenmarkt, November 17, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  27. "DMG Mori entkommt der Russland-Falle", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 16, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  28. "The Cutting Edge". Redbullracing.com. August 5, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  29. "DMG Mori beruft Irene Bader in den Board", Börsen-Zeitung, March 31, 2023. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  30. "Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team Partners". toyotagazooracing.com. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  31. "Fertigungstechnik und Motorsport auf Augenhöhe", Fertigung, Edition September 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  32. "Kojiro Shiraishi takes 16th in Vendee Globe, First Asian Skipper Ever To Finish The Race". Vendée Globe. February 11, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2023.

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