
”They became the world’s largest manufacturer of pantograph engraving machines, making them simple, reliable and user friendly. We did everything from the paperwork and publicity to the shipping, once the machine was in production.

In the beginning, both of us served as chief cook and bottle washer. Werner Dannheisser remembers this beginning: “This was a new product idea and we had to spend a lot of time and a lot of money in the development of the machine. After careful study of engraving techniques, they created their own version and solved notorious issues with the European versions. Although engraving machines were widely used in Europe, none were available in this country. New Hermes* Inc was founded in 1938 in the United States by a German immigrant, Norbert Schimmel and its business partner, Werner Dannheisser with a group of visionaries. We give the power to satisfy the growing desire to put emotion back at the heart of items by personalizing them.


We give the power to inform by creating signage that is more adapted to the environment, its constraints, and more appealing. We give the power to accompany the industrial digital transformation with the identification of manufactured parts to ensure their traceability. The Expression of things reflects Gravotech’s core business of empowering objects to express themselves through the written word, images and associated digital information. The Internet of Things expresses the ability of objects to exchange digital information with each other. Our brand, recognized worldwide for its expertise in rotary and laser engraving applications, is embodying a new vision of its business, the Expression of Things, and adopts this concept through a new identity and a new website launched worldwide in January 2021.

The group merged its three historical trademarks Gravotech, Gravograph, and Technifor to create Gravotech, and to evolve its brand platform.
