The UK subsidiary of German family company Trumpf, selling and servicing sheet metal machine tools and industrial lasers from its Luton headquarters.
Trumpf Ltd is the UK arm of Trumpf, a German company that makes machine tools and lasers, mainly for working with sheet metal. A trade article says its UK business supplies machine tools and lasers to manufacturers, especially in the sheet metal industry. That means machines that cut, punch, bend and weld flat metal into parts, from the casing of a kitchen appliance to components in a lorry. The UK site includes a 1,000 square metre showroom where customers can run time studies, feasibility studies and sample parts.
The UK company began trading in 1974 as Trumpf Machine Tools Ltd in St Albans with five employees, and moved to Luton in 1989, where it became the headquarters of Trumpf Ltd. In 2024 it marked 50 years in the UK with an open house, a customer and partner gala and an employee celebration. We found no formal mission statement. The article describes customers as central: managing director Lee Moakes said "we especially celebrate our customers", and the group chief executive, Nicola Leibinger-Kammuller, said "without you, none of us would be here today".
The UK headquarters is in Luton, Bedfordshire, and Trumpf's own site list includes a Luton page. The article says more than 100 people work there. Companies House shows Trumpf Limited as a UK company. We read nothing about other UK offices, so we do not claim any. The Luton site works as both a showroom and a customer support base, so the staff there include people who talk to customers every day as well as people who keep machines running after they are sold. The 50th anniversary article mentions three separate celebrations, for customers, partners and employees, which shows how long the company has been part of the British manufacturing scene.
On people and culture, the article says the company aims to give its best every day and invests in employees, processes and products. Lee Moakes has been managing director since 2018, which suggests the company promotes steady leadership. These are the company's own statements, and we have not found independent culture reviews. Its 50th anniversary programme, which included a separate event for employees as well as customers, suggests people matter to its identity.
Jobs in a business like this include sales and applications engineers, service engineers who install and repair machines, laser and software specialists, trainers, spare parts and logistics teams, and finance, marketing and HR staff. Good school subjects include maths, physics, design and technology and computing. If you enjoy seeing a design become a finished part within minutes, working with laser cutting systems is a striking place to be.
Website: www.trumpf.com/en_GB
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