28 November 2024
A modular transport system for Bosch Rexroth
This is the first introduction of a new transport system for Bosch Rexroth. We asked the Director of Development & NPI from...
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28 November 2024
Meet the company: Hittech Bihca in Winterswijk (NL)
This post presents Hittech Bihca, part of the Hittech Group (which includes eight other companies in the Netherlands, Germany, and...
12 November 2024
Apheon acquires a majority stake in Hittech Group.
Apheon, a leading European investment firm, acquired a majority stake in Hittech Group from its founders and a consortium of private...
11 November 2024
Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD) &Titanium at FMB2024
Odd Terje Lium, VP of Engineering & ETC Site Leader at Norsk Titanium, and Hittech Bihca Managing Director Koen Mentink will...
23 October 2024
The one-year challenge of Hittech Landes
It all started in 1985 with an ad in the local newspaper, and last week, almost 40 years later, Hittech Landes opened its brand new...
17 October 2024
Hittech Director of Technology at Materials Engineering Congress
On Thursday, October 17, Mikrocentrum will organise an expo and congress in Veldhoven (NL) about Materials Engineering. Our Director of...
17 October 2024
Celebrating 75 years of improvement
11 April 1949 was the official starting point of our aluminium foundry, Hittech Gieterij Nunspeet, and last week, we celebrated their...
04 October 2024
Electron Optics in the Spotlight
“It’s time to spotlight electron optics with some of the best experts in the business,” says Pieter Kappelhof, our Director of...
02 October 2024
Taiwan Innovation and Cooperation Conference
The Netherlands is one of only three countries (besides the U.S. and Japan) with a complete semiconductor value chain. Eighty-five per...
02 October 2024
A promising partnership on in-line measurement in mining
In this photo, the structural cooperation between Hittech Multin and Spectral Industries started with a letter of intent. Frans...
26 September 2024
Wetzlar Autumn Meeting “Modern Optical Manufacturing”
If you want to know more about the latest developments in the design and production of optomechanical products, apply for the 14th...
29 August 2024
Wemac clean room and Grade 4 cleaning machine
How can contamination and galvanic oxidation be avoided when cleaning ultrasonic stations for aluminium and ferrous metals? We found...
17 July 2024
Working with digital work instructions (DWI) software
In many production processes, including assembly, people remain indispensable. With the highly skilled work being done in our...
10 July 2024
The Dutch-German high-tech network
Ralph Stassen, CCO of the Hittech Group, presented Hittech Prontor GmbH in Bad Wildbad, Germany, to a group of entrepreneurs on a trade...
03 July 2024
Piezo-actuated lens adjustment
This is a lens adjustment mechanism that uses piezo actuators. This technology allows for minute and exact lens adjustments over...
27 June 2024
On the lookout for new surface treatments
Our company in Germany is currently implementing a new surface coating capability for our very specialised camera shutters, promising a...
27 June 2024
The art of Intercultural recruitment
Hiring new colleagues from foreign cultures requires more than a contract. Our company, Hittech Bihca, is less than 7 km from Germany,...
07 June 2024
Change at the workplace.
The two people at the table have two things in common: they are married to each other and will enjoy their pensions after working for...
01 June 2024
Sharing knowledge in Southeast Asia
Hittech Group is on a trade mission this week in Singapore and Malaysia. The Netherlands and Southeast Asia have a strong history of...
22 May 2024
Quality inspection to master improvement
This post explains why our colleague Robin van Eijk is taking photos of this high-tech machine. Robin is one of the 50 experts working...
16 May 2024
The art of fine assembly
Mounting these microscope apertures in their filter housings requires precision only a steady hand can achieve. To understand the...
24 April 2024
The importance of material science and production technology
Many designers lack sufficient material knowledge to thoroughly assess the impact of their application in high-tech equipment, says...
12 April 2024
Celebrating 40 years of regional recruitment
How do you maintain a strong company culture in a rapidly growing organisation? We asked the three colleagues responsible for personnel...
04 April 2024
Sharing manufacturability knowledge on April 16
This lightweight, high-accuracy titanium structure is initially produced by removing 90% by extensive milling. This product has...
27 March 2024
The tool magazine takes over parts automation.
High-tech components that are used for chip production can now be easily manufactured unmanned during the night shift. Photo: Harald...
08 March 2024
Fast and accurate order picking
With around 10.000 unique items in stock, fast and accurate order picking is daily business for our colleague Nica Tirani at Hittech...
01 March 2024
The advantages of working in Ypenburg Business Park
Frans Hoffmans, managing director of Hittech Multin, explains why settling in the Hague area is a good idea. “The region has a long...
14 February 2024
LEGO for cleanroom students
How can LEGO help students prepare themselves for a future in setting up production lines and working in a cleanroom? Last week, our...
09 February 2024
Production expansion in full swing
Production expansion at our companies is in full swing. Five new milling machines in six months for our colleagues at Hittech Bihca and...
31 January 2024
The Multin Qualification Framework (MQF)
We aim for perfection to excel in mechatronics. There is no alternative to high quality if you want to excel in mechatronic systems....
18 January 2024
Man versus robot: Qlayers
Our client, Qlayers, has developed a coating robot that reduces the number of working hours at heights by up to 80%. We asked their...
11 January 2024
Hittech Bihca expands its milling capacity
Last week, the first of three new milling machines arrived at our production facility at Hittech Bihca—an impressive capacity expansion...
03 January 2024
A Cleanroom full of women
Is technical work exclusively for men? Of course not: a quarter of the 50 colleagues working in the brand-new cleanroom at Hittech...
13 December 2023
Avoiding warping of large plates
How do we avoid warping large plates during the machining process to meet tight flatness and parallelism specifications? It’s a...
05 December 2023
Revolutionizing Tulip Selection
Faster, cheaper, easier: a daily request at our Hittech Comac plant in Deurne. After the first batch of tulip selection robots was...
24 November 2023
Hittech Multin B.V. Completes Successful 6-Month Reconstruction Project
Hittech Multin B.V. Multin recently completed a 6-month reconstruction project at their plant in The Hague, resulting in a 1.250 square...
15 November 2023
Hittech’s Innovative Showcases
Hittech has attended all Precisiebeurs editions since the first one, 23 years ago. This year, you can find us there at booth nr. 333,...
08 November 2023
New Collaboration in Advanced Manufacturing
Hittech Group & 3T Additive Manufacturing Ltd have formalised a #partnership to create an advanced manufacturing Joint Venture....
03 November 2023
25 Years of Precision
“We started producing the carrier handler in the picture for the semicon industry almost 25 years ago”, explains Philip Bakker, our...
27 October 2023
Innovation in Precision
How to check and calibrate 600 screwing holes in a complex milling part without losing concentration, and on top of this, find people...
23 October 2023
Cultivating Excellence
Five bright and young minds from our German site, Hittech Prontor GmbH, were rewarded with a trip to The Netherlands for their hard...
20 October 2023
Pioneering Sustainability
An important step in our mission towards a more sustainable future: Hittech Landes hosted a brainstorm session with toughtleaders from...
12 October 2023
Sealing Precision
Hittech Prontor GmbH has decades of experience with making systems with integrated optomechanics. The glueing of optics is a...
05 October 2023
Harmony in the Black Forest
Great weather and so many lovely people: the annual Summer Party of Hittech Prontor GmbH in Germany’s Black Forest took place on...
28 September 2023
Hittech Multin B.V. Pioneers Breakthrough in Microscopy
This ultra-advanced machine from ZEISS Microscopy, which we helped to develop and produce at our Hittech Multin B.V. site in The Hague...
24 September 2023
Breaking Boundaries in Optical Precision
Our colleagues, Pieter Kappelhof and Timo Kouwenhoven, will present a demonstrator and poster of a unique tunable resonant scanning...
22 September 2023
Mastering the Art of Black Anodizing
Black anodizing: what is it, and why is it perfect for optical assemblies? German Hittech PRONTOR GmbH is a champion in anodising for...
26 July 2023
Building Team Bonds in the Sand
We might know a lot about opto-mechanics, microscopy, and anodizing, but when it comes to high-precision beach structures, we did face...
25 July 2023
Revolutionizing Titanium Usage
Can you imagine we couldn’t use almost 90% of the precious titanium in our high-precision finishing in the old days? Koen Mentink,...
30 May 2023
From The Hague to the Black Forest: Jordy Pronk’s Seamless Career Transition with Hittech Prontor
29-year-old Jordy Pronk needed a new challenge in his life, and he couldn’t find it in his hometown, The Hague. He asked his Hittech...
16 May 2023
The Critical Role of Titanium in Aviation Components
Why do aeroplanes need Titanium? We all know they must be as light as possible, so aluminium is the preferred choice of metal. But...
26 April 2023
Producing big titanium structures using 3D printing
Producing big titanium structures using 3D printing: most of our clients thought it couldn’t be done. And to be honest: it took...
05 April 2023
H2L Robotics Selector
6.273 kilometres and 7.160.294 tulips in 10.093 hours: spring has just begun, but for the H2L Robotics Selector, the tulip season is...
29 March 2023
Hittech at Pittcon 2023 in Philadelphia
Last week Philip Bakker and Niels Dogterom stopped in at the Pittcon Tradeshow on Laboratory Science, in Philadelphia!......
28 March 2023
Successful participation Hittech in ZIE
Hittech Group participated in a very successful ZIE event, organized by HI Delta......
09 February 2023
Hittech Bihca starts project in cooperation with German University of Applied Sciences
Hittech Bihca starts project in cooperation with German University of Applied Sciences......
28 November 2022
Application of Materials in the High Tech Industry
Last week the course Application of Materials in High Tech Industry started for the second time......
13 November 2022
Visit Hittech at the Precision Fair – Booth 333
Hittech is attending the Precision Fair again......
26 October 2022
Hittech and Norsk Titanium make leap in Sustainable Titanium manufacturing
Hittech and Norsk Titanium will start production of carrier structures for ASML using 3D techniques......
05 September 2022
Thread Verification Robot ensures watertight verification and traceability
Hittech Multin developed an advanced test robot for checking screw holes......
07 June 2022
Hittech at 2022 EUSPEN conference in Geneva
From the 31th of May to the 3rd of June EUSPEN, the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology held their annual...
31 May 2022
Excursion MSc. Students TU Delft at Hittech Multin
Last week Hittech Multin organized an excursion in collaboration with Dispuut Taylor of the TU Delft......
30 May 2022
Hittech Multin Building 2 completed
This week the new building of Hittech Multin has been formally handed over by the contractor......
18 May 2022
Fuji Seal celebrates 125th anniversary
Hittech Comac wants to congratulate Fuji warmly on its 125th anniversary......
05 April 2022
Exterior of Hittech Multin building extension is approaching completion
Structural work of the new Hittech Multin building extension is approaching its completion......
29 March 2022
Collaboration Hittech Comac and Qlayers
Due to Qlayers company's rapid growth and increasing global demand for their coating robots, they signed a contract with @Hittech Comac...
17 March 2022
Hittech Wafer level sensor featured in Mikroniek
It is an honor that our high accuracy level sensor for wafers is featured of this month's DSPE Mikroniek magazine......
14 February 2022
New master’s program ‘Applications of materials in high-tech engineering’
On February 8, the new master's program at the 3ME faculty of the TUDelft “Applications of materials in high-tech engineering” started......
25 January 2022
Visit of the Dutch Embassy to Hittech Wemac
Hittech Wemac Sdn Bhd was honoured by a visit of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands......
04 January 2022
Hittech Group expands by acquiring Landes High-End Machining
Hittech Group expands by acquiring Landes High-End Machining......
06 December 2021
Looking back at successful Precision Fair & SEMICON Europe
In November we had the possibility for the first time in 2 years to participate in two major trade shows:......
09 November 2021
Hittech shows 50nm Levelsensor at Precision Fair & SEMICON Europe
As a part of its Technology Roadmap Program Hittech has developed a high accuracy level sensor for wafers......
25 October 2021
Hittech Colloquium on 3D Metal Printing
On September 30, the third Hittech Colloquium took place at the LOFT of Ramlab......
15 October 2021
Additional new CNC milling machines for Hittech Wemac
Hittech Wemac has received 2 brand new CNC milling machines Hartford MVP-8......
13 October 2021
Come and visit us at the Precision Fair 2021
Fortunately, the developments surrounding Corona are such that the first Trade Fairs are actually being organized again......
20 July 2021
Hittech and TUDelft are developing a new generation of eye scanners for Easyscan
Easyscan Technology has been a valued customer of the Hittech Group for a long time. A joint technology development was recently...
12 July 2021
Tunable resonant mirror
Hittech Group has an internal “Technology Project” in which we focus on technology development for Product Development, Production and...
28 June 2021
Norsk Titanium Expands into the Industrial Application Market in collaboration with Hittech Group
Norsk Titanium AS announced an expansion of its customer base into the industrial application market sector in collaboration with...
21 June 2021
Visit Deputy Mayor Saskia Bruines to Hittech
On the 11th of June, 2021 Saskia Bruines visited Hittech Multin on the Technology Park Ypenburg in The Hague......
16 June 2021
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) at the Smart Industry event
Hittech was invited, together with Ramlab (field lab equipped with 3D metal printers), to give a presentation about WAAM (Wire Arc...
22 April 2021
Release Hittech Wemac company video
Hittech Wemac, the Malaysian production site of Hittech Group, has released its latest company video......
09 April 2021
First asparagus robot in the Netherlands
Our customer Cerescon has delivered the first asparagus robot in the Netherlands......
23 March 2021
Additional clean room in operation at Hittech Multin
In addition to its current 650m2 cleanroom, Hittech Multin has invested in an extendable cleanroom to create extra space for the...
08 March 2021
Ramlab and Hittech successfully delivered their first manufactured titanium part
Hittech has successfully delivered its first manufactured titanium (Ti6Al4V) part together with Ramlab for the AMable initiative,.....
18 February 2021
New RGA facility in operation at Hittech Multin
Hittech Multin has formally released its new in-house Residual Gas Analysis (RGA) facility......
15 December 2020
Extension of Hittech Multin
We are proud to announce that the supervisory board of Hittech has released the extension plans of Hittech Multin at the Ypenburg...
13 July 2020
Thread control robot at Hittech Bihca
At Hittech Bihca we have been producing carriers for the semicon industry for a long time......
03 July 2020
Expertise in materials essential for designers
Invar and Duplex were the subjects under discussion at the half-yearly colloquium on materials of Hittech University this year......
26 June 2020
Hittech Bihca investments
Hittech invests in renewal and expansion at its companies......
19 June 2020
Hittech wants employees to drive their own success
With our slogan being "masters in improvement", we at Hittech want to make sure that our employees keep learning about new technology,......
07 May 2020
Interreg 2 Seas 3D & FPP project
Hittech Multin has contributed, together with seven organizations and universities, to the Interreg 2 Seas project 3D & FPP project ......
09 March 2020
Hittech Multin delivers single-wafer RTP thermal processing machines
Hittech Multin has recently finalized the delivery of an important order of single-wafer RTP thermal processing machines......
09 March 2020
Employee assistance within Hittech
At Hittech there is a cooperation within the machining companies......
21 February 2020
Hittech University ‘Materials’ 30 January 2020
30 January 2020 the second edition of the Hittech University colloquia, this time about ‘Materials’, took place......
10 December 2019
Calculating the advantages of additive manufacturing
The post-processing of high-precision, 3D-printed metal parts is still too costly......
09 December 2019
Hittech Comac is moving!
From January 6, 2020, the new Hittech Comac address is......
14 November 2019
New DMU 100 Duoblock delivered at Hittech Bihca
Hittech Bihca has invested in a DMU 100 Duoblock......
14 November 2019
New Hittech logo presented at the Precision Fair
This week we presented our new logo at the Precision Fair in Veldhoven......
07 November 2019
Proud to introduce new Hittech logo on Precision Fair 13-14 November
Hittech has shown an impressive development in recent years......
01 October 2019
Hittech Gieterij Nunspeet celebrates its 70th year anniversary
This year Hittech Gieterij Nunspeet has been producing aluminium sand castings for 70 years......
20 August 2019
New building Hittech Comac
Renovation of the new premises of Hittech Comac is in full progress ......
27 June 2019
New EDM machine for Hittech Prontor
We were very happy to have been approved for the purchase of a new EDM machine.......
18 June 2019
Hittech University – “It is all about understanding materials”
On June 13, the first technical Colloquium of Hittech University took place. Five lectures presented different (technical and...
17 April 2019
New Prismo measuring machine installed at Hittech MPP
In collaboration with Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH a Prismo measuring machine is installed at Hittech MPP....
11 April 2019
Hittech Training ISO 9001 – Internal Auditor
Within the Hittech Group several coordination groups (Technology, Quality, Purchase, HR) work closely together on specific topics......
26 March 2019
New 5 axis simultaneous milling machine installed at Hittech MPP
Because of a higher demand of larger products with a higher accuracy and a more complex geometry, Hittech MPP has......
19 March 2019
Interview NIMO – The development of Project Management at Hittech
Marco Verloop, Director Projects at Hittech Group, has recently been interviewed by the NIMO Project Management Institute......
15 March 2019
Hittech Multin QMS updated to latest version ISO13485 standard
As of the 1st of March Hittech Multin has received its updated ISO485:2016 certificate. Last year all procedures of the QMS......
13 March 2019
2 casting robots successfully installed at HGN
Hittech Gieterij Nunspeet has invested in robotizing the casting process by placing two casting robots....
05 March 2019
Hittech boat wins Bronze on World Cup Flying Dutchman
Ard Geelkerken from Hittech Multin and his sailing mate Enno Kramer finished in third place on the World Championship......
06 February 2019
New AgieCharmilles Cut 2000 S installed at Hittech Bihca
Hittech Bihca has invested in a new AgieCharmilles spark eroding machine...
28 January 2019
A ‘grade 2’ area in the cleanroom of Hittech Multin
Hittech Multin invested in a ‘grade 2’ area in the cleanroom...
23 January 2019
Joop Sassen and Jan Dalhuisen appointed in the Supervisory Board of Hittech Group
New members Supervisory Board of Hittech Group...
22 January 2019
Hittech Gieterij Nunspeet saved 28.051 kg CO2 in 2018
Replacing of the lighting led to a saving of 28.051 kg...
28 June 2018
Management change Hittech
On Thursday 28 June, the management change of Hittech Group took place during a special event organized for this purpose in The Hague....
26 June 2018
1000th Easyscan
At the end of June, Hittech Multin produced the 1000th Easyscan retina scanner for its client Easyscan BV. The cooperation between...
04 June 2018
LEA from Robot Care Systems in production
After intensive collaboration and completion of a joint New Product Introduction project, Hittech Multin started production of the LEA...
