Business Focus Magazine – More than just a machine manufacturer: Altendorf Group offers technologies that enable the workshop of the future
- Press Review
With German engineering expertise and state-of-the-art digital and safety technology, the Altendorf Group combines tradition and innovation to create a powerful balance.
As a global technology leader for woodworking machines and for plastics and aluminium processing, Altendorf has built up an outstanding reputation over almost 120 years. High-quality, user-friendly designs have earned the German company the loyalty of carpenters, joiners and woodworking professionals worldwide.
“What sets Altendorf apart from the competition is our customers’ long-standing trust in the brand,” says CEO Matthias Picker. “We build on more than a century of craftsmanship and global experience to deliver safe, intuitive and future-orientated solutions that professionals rely on.”
Altendorf is best known for its iconic sliding table saw. Known around the world as the “Altendorf Saw”, it combines mechanical precision with digital intelligence – and embodies the user-centred design that makes Altendorf machines so popular.
Tyler Warner in an interview with Matthias Picker
“We want to be a co-creator of the future workshop in which people, machines and data interact in new ways to realise potential.”
Matthias Picker
CEO Altendorf Group
About the Altendorf Group
The Altendorf Group is the global market leader in the manufacture of premium sliding table saws and is one of the hidden champions of the German SME sector. The company was founded in 1906 and has a strong brand awareness worldwide. Its most successful product is the F 45 sliding table saw, also known as “The Altendorf”. It is internationally synonymous with the sliding table saw product category. The latest innovation is HAND GUARD. A globally unique early detection system with two cameras that protects man, machine and material. Since 2018, Hebrock and its high-quality Hebrock edge banding machines have been part of the Altendorf Group. With subsidiaries in Australia, China, India and the USA, it employs around 360 people.
Contact person


