Metall Zug


The Metall Zug Group is a Swiss industrial holding company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland which was founded in 1887. Shares of the company are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
The company has 6 business units:
Metall Zug was founded in 1887 as a metal goods factory. The company specialized in home appliances, releasing the ZUG washing machine in 1915, the first unimatic automatic washing machine in 1950, and tumble dryer in 1959.
In 1993, Metall Zug acquired Belimed, which specializes in products for sterilization. Other competitors in the sterilization field include 3M, Cantel Medical Corporation, and Steris.
On February 28, 2018, Metall Zug acquired control of Köniz, Switzerland-based Haag Streit Holding AG. Haag Streit comprised more than 20 companies with about 900 employees and develops products for the ophthalmology, pulmonology, and optics fields; the company was acquired to form Metall Zug's medical devices division.