GF AgieCharmilles is celebrating 60 years of continuous product development in electrical discharge machining (EDM). Founded in Switzerland with North American headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill., the company began EDM research and development for industrial applications in 1952, which led to the company’s first die-sinking EDM in 1954 and the launch of the world’s first numerically controlled wire-EDM in 1969.
GF AgieCharmilles is celebrating 60 years of continuous product development in electrical discharge machining (EDM). Founded in Switzerland with North American headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill., the company began EDM research and development for industrial applications in 1952, which led to the company’s first die-sinking EDM in 1954 and the launch of the world’s first numerically controlled wire-EDM in 1969.
