About us
Company profile
The tradition in the cutting tools productions
For more than 70 years we have been producing cutting tools of guaranteed quality for:
- hole and chamfer processing
- external and internal thread cutting
- reaming, milling and gear cutting
- Special tools by requirement
History
1946 - Founded tool-making company in Bulgaria, named Bolshevik
1980 - About 5 500 labourers work in the main plant in Gabrovo and all over the country. In the thread cutting department about 400 labourers.
1996 - Purchasing by Plansee TIZIT, Austria
1999 - Establishing of GWG (of English -Thread cutting tools)
2001 - GWG is purchased by RS Werkzeuge GmbH
General Manager becomes Eng. Reinhard Schwamberger
2004 - Founded second plant in Tryavna
Company statistic
About 250 labourers work in the company GWG
About 15.000 m² production area
About 2 500 000 tools by year
About 365 tons steel by year
About 90 % production for export
A tool shop in Gabrovo
A tool shop in Gabrovo services our Bulgarian customers, through selling at place, reception of orders and supplying of cutting tools to exact indicated address.
Contacts:
GEWINDEWERKZEUGE GABROVO GmbH
157 Stoletov Blvd.
BG-5301 Gabrovo
Bulgaria
Tel.: +359 66 814 409; +359 66 814 407
Fax: +359 66 801 649
E-mail: bgsales@gwg-gabrovo.com or office@gwg-gabrovo.com
Our product range
The Product range of the company include:
TAPS:
Hand taps and Machine taps for metric, pipe, Unified, Whitworth and for armoured tube thread
DIES:
Circular dies and Hexagon die nutes for metric, pipe, Unified, Whitworth and for armoured tube thread
DRILLS:
- Spiral drills for metal, metal sheets and wood
- Step drills
- Tube and sheet drills
- Drill-milling cutters
- Spiral drills extra long
- Spiral drills for NC - machines
- Center drills
SINK-TOOLS:
Countersinks, Counterbores
MILLS:
End mills and Mill cutters
GEAR CUTTERS:
- Involute gear cutters
- Hob cutters
REAMERS
SPECIAL TOOLS BY DRAWING OR SAMPLE OF THE CUSTOMER
USED STEEL:
- HSS, HSS-Co 5%, HSS-Co 8%, HSS-Co10%
- ASP
STEEL SUPPLIERS:
- Germany
- France
- Austria
- Russia
Technical equipment
Specialized machines from Germany, USA, Schwitzerland for:
- grinding of flutes of the cutting tools
- grinding of threads
- square grinding
- chamfering
Thermal treatment - vacum furnaces for tempering
- Vacuum furnace IPSEN
- Vacuum furnaces SCHMETZ
Quality and control
The company is certified by the International Quality Standard ISO 9001 by SGS Bulgaria. 
Modern laboratory for metallographic analysis
System of measuring devices