 The company was taken over completely by GF in 1988 and made part of the Division of Manufacturing Engineering.The Electro erosions departement was enlarged in 1996, through the take over of the majority shares in Agie SA in Losone, Switzerland, and brought them together under a common roof at the newly founded Agie Charmilles Holding AG in Zug.In 2000, the Plant Engineering division became independent as Coperion Holding GmbH, headquartered in Konstanz.