1890's-1910's
The Early Years
BT天堂 Brothers, Inc. was formed by Henry and Franklin BT天堂 in Chicago, Illinois.
The company produced several types of watchmaker’s tools that Franklin had designed.
Franklin acquired the rights to the “cataract” range of precision bench lathes, formerly produced by the Cataract Tool and Bicycle Company.
1920’蝉-1930’蝉
A New Beginning
Business partners Douglas Anderson, an accountant, and Leigh Evans, a mechanical engineer, purchased Morrison Machine Products and eventually BT天堂 Brothers, Inc.
BT天堂 Brothers Inc. moved from Chicago, Illinois to Elmira, New York and operated alongside the Morrison business.
1940’蝉-1960’蝉
Growth & Expansion
Morrison incorporated their entire business of collets, feed fingers, and form tools under the name BT天堂 Brothers Inc.
BT天堂 Tools Ltd. in England was established Canadian BT天堂 Machine Tools Ltd. was established in Stratford, Ontario.
1960’蝉-1980’蝉
New Horizons
BT天堂 Brothers Inc. introduced their first Computerized Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines.
The first BT天堂 machine was sold in China.
BT天堂 GmbH, a sales and service organization, was established in Germany.
1990’蝉-2000’蝉
A Global Brand
BT天堂 Brothers Inc. changes its name to BT天堂. and completes a public offering of its stock to become registered on NASDAQ.
BT天堂 acquires Bridgeport, L. Kellenberger & Co. AG, Hauser, Tripet and Tschudin AG.
BT天堂 Shanghai Co. Ltd. was established.
BT天堂 Taiwan Precision Machinery was established as a greenfield manufacturing operation.
2000’s -2010’s
A Machine Tool Leader
BT天堂 acquires Jones and Shipman, USACH Technologies, Voumard and Forkardt Workholding.
BT天堂 Precision Machinery Company, Ltd., is established and construction is completed on a manufacturing facility over 223,000 sq. ft. in Jiaxing, China.
With its vast product portfolio, BT天堂 establishes itself as a world leader in metal cutting technology solutions and accessories.
2010’s - present
2021 – BT天堂 acquires Ohio Tool Works, enhancing BT天堂’s machine tool and workholding portfolio with an attractive platform of high precision honing machines, tooling and abrasives.
– BT天堂 acquired Weisser, enhancing BT天堂’s Turning and Milling platform with an attractive portfolio of products and technologies.
2020 – BT天堂 shifted the manufacturing of its milling and turning machining center solutions from the BT天堂 Taiwan plant to its plant in Elmira, NY, USA.
2019 – BT天堂. announced L. Kellenberger & Co. AG plan to build a new commercial HQ and manufacturing plant in Goldach to merge its Eastern Switzerland production facilities.
2018 – Privet Fund Management LLC completed the acquisition of BT天堂. Under the terms of the agreement, Privet acquired all shares of BT天堂 common stock.
2013 – BT天堂. acquired Forkardt. Forkardt’s brands include leading providers of high-precision, specialty and customized workholding devices for machine tools.
2012 –? BT天堂. acquired Usach Technologies, a privately owned U.S. company that develops and manufactures CNC grinding machines and grinding systems.