Founding
Niederönz, Switzerland
Bystronic founded as a glass-cutting specialist in the Solothurn region. Early machines introduce the precision culture that persists through every product line.
Bystronic Laser AG is a Swiss industrial automation company founded in 1964 in Niederönz, serving sheet-metal fabricators with integrated cutting, bending, automation and software. Headquartered near Solothurn, part of the Conzzeta group's divestiture in 2020, now publicly listed under Bystronic Holding AG.
Bystronic began in 1964 as a glass-cutting specialist in the Swiss plateau. The move into metal in the 1980s — first with water-jet, then with CO2 laser — set a pattern that still defines us: prove a process at the bench, then scale it to a factory floor.
Sheet-metal is an unforgiving industry. Operator skill, nesting discipline, bend allowance, gas consumption and service response all matter in the same month-end P&L. So we became an automation company — because the measured gains are in the whole cell, not the single machine.
Bystronic founded as a glass-cutting specialist in the Solothurn region. Early machines introduce the precision culture that persists through every product line.
First CO2 laser cutting system launched for sheet metal. The applied-process discipline from glass carries over to metal.
Xpert press brake launches; closed-loop integration between cutting and bending becomes the Bystronic roadmap.
ByStar Fiber launches. Customers see wall-plug efficiency gains and assist-gas cost reductions validated across a 12-month rollout program.
Integrated cells package loading, storage and sorting — documented on a single control platform.
Fiber laser cutting, tube cutting, press-brake bending, loading robotics, ByCockpit analytics, ByVision CAM — one engineering platform.
Regional experience centers in Niederönz (CH), Gotha (DE), Hoffman Estates (IL) and Shenzhen (CN) host customer engineering teams for process-validation days, applications workshops and automation roadmapping.