OUR HISTORY In 1953, the family of "Schwarze" purchased the "Peter Wirtz" company who had been producing tube cold bending machines since 1930. At that time, the name was changed to Schwarze-Wirtz KG. Due to management changes and a concentration on new technology, the company gained worldwide recognition as a high quality tube bending machine manufacturer. In 1965, they built their first automatic machines with numerical control. The next 10 years included these important mile stones: 1970 - Construction and manufacture of our own numerical controls. Construction of the largest tube cold bending machine ever manufactured in the world with a capacity to bend 14" OD x 1.4" wall pipe and equipped with automatic loading over mandrel, powered positioning device and numerical control 1975 - Design and construction of full automatic tube bending machines for the automotive, power boiler and shipbuilding industries. 1978 -Introduction of our own CNC control. 1986 - Introduction of Multi-stacked tool machines. 1995 - Introduction of the TWIN dual head bending machine. 1996 - Introduction of the PC CNC control using an industrial grade F IBM compatible computer. In 1996, Schwarze-Wirtz merged with Robitec, which brought new state of the art computer technology to their already proven machine construction and bending technology. In 1997, the name was changed to Schwarze-Robitec GmbH. During this period, the standard single axis bending machine control was upgraded to a PLC control. This continued our commitment to provide state of the art technology to our complete line of bending machines. Today Schwarze-Robitec is manufacturing in seven work bays covering an area of over 225,000 Sq Ft. Hundreds of CNC machines have been supplied to different industries all over the world. Schwarze-Wirtz first began marketing their bending machines in North America in 1984. In 1996, SWR America LLC, became the Exclusive Distributor for Schwarze-Robitec in North America with offices in South Carolina and Michigan. TOGR, INC., with offices located in Michigan became the spare parts and service agent.