 Founded in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1960, the GF Pipe Coupling Technology division focused on the production of pipe and tube cutting, facing, and beveling machines for high purity process piping.The sales and management of the division were moved to Singen, Germany in 1993.In 2006 Georg Fischer sold the GF Pipe Coupling Technology division to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), where the company was renamed from "Rohrverbindungstechnik GmbH" to Orbitalum Tools GmbH.