Does Deutschland do digital?

SINCE it was founded in 1923 Trumpf, a family-owned company based near Stuttgart, has had one main mission: making things that make things. It started out with motorised hand shears and other tools to work sheet metal. It then invented fabrication machines with a numerical-control system and later was among the first to use lasers to cut metal. A prime example of a firm from Germany's industrial Mittelstand that has outgrown the label (which literally means "mid-sized trades"), the firm today ha...