botek – Your partner for precision and innovation
botek is a leading global specialist for cutting tools based in Riederich, Germany. With around 750 employees at its headquarters and production facilities in France, Hungary and India, subsidiaries in Thailand and the USA and over 50 international sales and support partners, botek is always at your side globally.
For over 50 years, we have specialised in the development and production of drilling tools, deep hole drilling tools with diameters from 0.0197″ [0.5 mm] to 59.0551″ [1500 mm], milling cutters and reaming tools as well as the associated services. Today, this specialisation is being continued successfully, sustainably and with a focus on innovation in the second generation.
In the age of technological change, however, new demands also require new thinking.
Our focus is no longer solely on tool development and production but is being meaningfully complemented by innovative and goal-oriented project management.
Our objectives are the design and conception of optimisation processes along with the development and implementation of complete turnkey projects, which we implement effectively with the cooperation of our experienced team of technicians and project managers as well as our customers.
We set standards with pioneering technology – today and in the future. Put your trust in botek when it comes to precision, innovation and sustainable solutions.
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botek – how it all began
The company was founded in spring 1974 by Lothar Herrmann, Gotthold Schur and Karl-Heinz Wenzelburger as a joint partnership. Based in Riederich near Stuttgart, the company started out with six employees, producing and developing single-fluted gun drills with brazed drill head. It was transformed into a limited company with its present name in 1976.
The results achieved by single-fluted gun drills, especially in series production meant that the usual finishing via counterboring or reaming was no longer necessary. No other tool of the day was capable of producing bores of comparable quality in a single pass. This was a crucial leading edge in times of rocketing industrial demand for high-precision deep-hole drilling.
