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2005 | | October 7, 2005: Acquisition by Maxcor Inc. Head office in New York | | | | 
| | | | 2004 | | Split of Hüller Hille GmbH into three individual enterprises: Cross Hüller GmbH, Hessapp GmbH, Hüller Hille GmbH. | | | |
| | | | 2001 | | Fusion of EX-CELL-O Holding to the IWKA Aktiengesellschaft, Karlsruhe and the foundation of the IWKA Produktionstechnik GmbH, Eislingen/Fils not only brought EX-CELL-O Group under the roof of IWKA Produktionstechnik, also the Boehringer Group, J.W. Froehlich Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Leinfelden), LSW Maschinenfabrik, B&K (USA) and GSN Maschinen-Anlagen-Service Rottenburg as well. Together they make up an extremely competent systems supplier for the automotive and supplier's industry. | | | |
| | | | 1999-2000 | | Fusion of EX-CELL-O Holding to the IWKA Aktiengesellschaft, Karlsruhe and the foundation of the IWKA Produktionstechnik GmbH, Eislingen/Fils not only brought EX-CELL-O Group under the roof of IWKA Produktionstechnik, also the Boehringer Group, J.W. Froehlich Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Leinfelden), LSW Maschinenfabrik, B&K (USA) and GSN Maschinen-Anlagen-Service Rottenburg as well. Together they make up an extremely competent systems supplier for the automotive and supplier's industry. | | | |
| | | | 1999 | | EX-CELL-O acquires the machine service, retool and modernization specialist, GSN Maschinen-Anlage-Service GmbH in Rottenburg, Germany. Max Rhodius GmbH is sold. | | | |
| | | | 1997 | | With the acquisition of one of the largest US-American machine tool manufacturers, Giddings & Lewis in 1997, a further step toward globalization was made. The history of Giddings & Lewis goes back to 1859, however, the company officially took this name in 1895. In 1991, Giddings & Lewis took over the Cross & Trecker Corporation, and in 1995 Fadal, one of the largest US-American manufacturers of vertical machining centers. The subsidiary Cross, belonging to Giddings & Lewis, was brought together with the Hüller Hille Special Purpose Machines division and re-named Cross Hüller after the take-over from Thyssen. The product range of Cross Hüller covers Special Purpose Machines, Transfer Lines and Agile Systems, which are manufactured in Germany, the USA, England, Brazil and Korea. The IWKA Corporation of Karlsruhe becomes the majority shareholder of EX-CELL-O Holding AG. The Machine Tool Group is formed by combining EX-CELL-O´s companies with the BOEHRINGER Group from Göppingen, which was already part of IWKA. This affiliation gives EX-CELL-O access to the resources necessary to produce turnkey installations as a "single-source" supplier. | | | |
| | | | 1996 | | Thyssen Production Systems took over the shares of Witzig & Frank Turmatic GmbH, Offenburg in 1996. The company is internationally well known as manufacturer of multi-path processing machines. | | | |
| | | | 1995 | | In 1995, Thyssen Machines acquired Hessapp, a prominent manufacturer of vertical machining centers, and integrated their activities into Hüller Hille GmbH. | | | |
| | | | 1994 | | Thyssen Machines brought Hüller Hille and Diedesheim together in 1994 and the two merged to offer machines with a broader range of application. In the meantime, technological advances continued and Cross Hüller emerged as a pioneer with Agile Systems with its well-known advantages. The first Agile System world-wide was delivered 1995. Since then, Cross Hüller has produced about 30 large projects, among them the largest system delivered world-wide of 172 machining centers in the SPECHT series in 2001. As of today, Cross Hüller built and sold over 2,500 Transfer Lines, 15,000 Special Purpose Machines and 3,000 CNC Machining Centers. The primary customers of Cross Hüller were, and still are today, the big automobile manufacture like Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Opel, VW, BMW and also Russian and Asian manufacturers. | | | |
| | | | 1993 | | JW FROEHLICH Maschinenfabrik GmbH, is added to the EX-CELL-O Group. They manufacture assembly and test systems at plants in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and Plochingen in the Stuttgart region of Southern Germany, and Laindon, Essex, in England. | | | |
| | | | 1992 | | EX-CELL-O builds a special machine tool assembly plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan (USA). MAX RHODIUS GmbH, of Weissenburg, Bavaria, a well-known producer of wire mesh products is added to the growing EX-CELL-O family of companies. | | | |
| | | | 1990 | | EX-CELL-O acquires Continental ARVID, a Canadian builder of special machine tools, and changes its name to EX-CELL-O Canada, Ltd. | | | |
| | | | 1989 | | EX-CELL-O forms a holding company, and its shares are listed on the German stock market. | | | |
| | | | 1987 | | EX-CELL-O GmbH becomes independent under German ownership. A sales and service company is founded in the State of Michigan (USA) to service the American market. | | | |
| | | | 1975 | | In 1975, Hüller was acquired by Thyssen Industrie AG, together with Hille-Henschel in Witten, and in 1976 the company established the name Hüller Hille GmbH. | | | |
| | | | 1958 | | EX-CELL-O Corporation, an American machine tool builder founded in 1919, acquires the Göppingen machine tool plant, and builds new facility in Southern Germany at Eislingen/Fils. The new enterprise quickly builds international reputation in the automotive industry based on the quality and productivity of its standard machine tools, transfer lines, and special-purpose machines. | | | |
| | | | 1952 | | After the war, Karl Hüller started all over again with 135 employees. In the subsequent years, growth ran parallel to the need of new equipment of the German industry, and in 1952 the first Transfer Line for transmissions was delivered to Opel. The long life of the machine – 25 years – showed the outstanding quality of the times. When the demand for special machines and Transfer Lines increased, it was decided to establish a new plant for the standard machine program. This plant was established in 1960 in Rottenburg, south of Stuttgart near the Black Forest. | | | |
| | | | 1939 | | The German company expanded very quickly and Hüller by 1939 employed 300 people. A new plant was built on Schwieberdinger Street in Ludwigsburg, and is still the headquarters of Cross Hüller today. | | | |
| | | | 1929 | | In 1929, they produced the first standard drill unit, which served as the base for our unit later on. In 1936, the company delivered its first unit of special machines. Sixteen years later Hüller Hille delivered the first Transfer Line in Europe. But Milton O. Cross had already built the first world-wide Transfer Line in America five years before. Since Cross and the division Special Purpose Machines of Hüller Hille GmbH merged in 1997, it is safe to say that Cross Hüller built the first Transfer Line worldwide. | | | |
| | | | 1923 | | In 1923, Karl Hüller established a company called Fixture Construction Hüller. Karl Hüller started with 20 employees to build tools and fixtures. | | | |
| | | | 1919 | | Founding of the EX-CELL-O Corporation. | | | |
| | | | 1914 | | Lamb founded as F. Jos. Lamb Company. | | | |
| | | | 1898 | | Founding of the Cross company in Detroit. | | | |
| | | | 1798 | | Foundation of the Gebrüder Honsberg company for trading tools of all sorts. | | | |
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