Amann Girrbach.

Amann Girrbach's about page dates the combined company to 2004 and the predecessor firms further back. Herbert Girrbach founded Girrbach Dental GmbH in Pforzheim, Germany, in 1936. Dietmar Amann founded Amann Dental GmbH in 1973 on that same page. A 20-year anniversary note on the company site says the Amann side was founded in 1972, so the two Amann Girrbach pages do not print the same year. Both pages agree on the 1936 Girrbach date and on the 2004 merger.

The about page says solutions are used in more than 90 countries and that production is in Mader, Austria. The anniversary note says the twentieth year of the merger coincided with a move into a new headquarters in Mader. A 2022 Inside Dental Technology interview with Jan Slor, then managing director of Amann Girrbach North America, still described the global headquarters as Koblach and said a new facility was being built. Treat Koblach as the earlier site and Mader as the headquarters named on the current company pages.

The anniversary note names the Artex, Ceramill, and Zolid brands and says products are manufactured in-house in Austria. The 2022 interview describes Ceramill DRS as a dentist-lab path that includes the Ceramill Map DRS intraoral scanner, the AG.Live portal, Ceramill Mind DRS software, the Ceramill Motion DRS mill, and the Ceramill Therm DRS furnace. It also names Ceramill Motion 3 and Ceramill Matik as laboratory mills. Those are product names from that interview, not a promise that every name is on the current price list.

The same interview says AG America opened in Tampa, Florida, in 2007, the year in-house zirconia production began in Koblach, and that the US office later moved to Charlotte. Ceramill as a CAD/CAM system is dated to 2009 in that account, and the Artex Carbon articulator series to 2005. Confirm the mill, scanner, and blank that a lab actually quotes before treating a 2009 launch as the machine on the floor.

The company suits a laboratory, or a practice working with a laboratory, that wants mills, design software, and zirconia from one Austrian manufacturer. Compare mills on the milling machine guide.

Furnaces are a separate device from the mill. The porcelain furnace guide covers sintering and pressing equipment. Printers, if the lab also prints models, are on the 3D printer guide.

Ceramill DRS, as described in 2022, lets a dentist scan and either mill a limited restoration in the practice or send the design to a laboratory mill. A Motion DRS is not the same machine as a Matik production mill.

Artex is an articulator, not a mill. Zolid is a material. Ordering one does not include the others unless the quote says so.

Ask whether service for your country runs through Mader or through the Charlotte office named in the 2022 interview. Lead times and spare burs are not printed on the history pages.

The 1972 and 1973 dates for Amann Dental are both on Amann Girrbach pages. Quote the merger year, 2004, when the question is the age of the combined company.