MATERIALS & PRECISION
Advanced Manufacturing.
The global economy runs on components nobody sees: precision motors that steer Mars rovers, anchors that hold façades to concrete, ceramics that rebuild teeth. A striking share of these quiet specialties is engineered in the Alps and in Liechtenstein — often in small towns, often by companies that lead their fields worldwide.
This topic collects manufacturers whose advantage is depth: materials science plus mechanical precision plus decades of accumulated process knowledge.
- Precision drive systems and micro-mechatronics
- Fastening, anchoring and construction technology
- Dental and medical materials science
- Industrial culture in small-town and microstate settings
SWITZERLAND · ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
maxon
The tiny Swiss motors that drive everything from surgery to Mars rovers
LIECHTENSTEIN · ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
Hilti
Fastening technology from Liechtenstein that holds up the world's construction sites
LIECHTENSTEIN · ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
Ivoclar Vivadent
A century of dental materials, from artificial teeth to digital dentistry