Precision out of Tradition

Over the years, a.maier kept on supplying the top technological sectors of the time - clocks, automobiles, computers, medicine, communications - with components of utmost precision. Initially of metal, later of plastic, and finally a combination of both.

The most important stages in the 150-year-old history of the company

1852		Foundation of the company by Andreas Maier: production of dial faces for clocks

1881		New factory with steam operation in the Bahnhofstrasse

1931		Start of pointer production

1940		Move to the new building in the Gewerbehallestrasse

1952		12 Million pointers per year: A. MAIER is the biggest German manufacturer of pointers

1960		Start-up of plastic injection moulding

1970		Initiation of plastic-metal combinations

1976		Annual production of 33 million pointers for cars

1984		Production start of illuminated pointers; Move to plant 2

1988		Metal-insert parts for automatic injection moulding

1993		Reel-to-reel manufacturing (Continuous insert moulding)

1998		Use of automatic CNC lathe

2001		Micro plastic-metal combinations

2004		Laser etching

2005		Use of coil automatic lathe

2006		Shaftless technology used for illuminated pointers

2007		measurement of light intensity and homogenity