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Like other trade shows, Hardware Luzern was unable to be held live in exhibition halls this time around. However, the show organizers did manage to put together an appealing digital lineup for this important gathering of our industry. This allowed us to showcase our innovations and highlights to the hardware and tools sector effectively online in topical digital presentations and at well-attended webinars. As part of our innovation strategy, we will continue to make full use of digital avenues in communication and product development. Read on below to learn more about our main focuses in terms of digitalization, flexibility and precision.

Covering a distance from Basel to Rome on the ground in less than an hour – this is the goal of the Hyperloop idea promoted by Elon Musk, on which companies and universities all over the world are working. Fascinated by this innovative vision, PB Swiss Tools is supporting the highly motivated Swiss team of ETH Zurich students by providing precision tools. Thanks to excellent technological and manual skills, the Swissloop Pod raced to second place in the last international Hyperloop Pod Competition. This year's team has now showcased the Pod 2020 with decisive optimizations at the Switzerland Innovation Park.

Their names are Meret, Noël and Felix. Together, the three young Basel locals are fizzing with ideas about sharing. After over a year of planning and thanks to an extremely successful crowdfunding project, the initiators have now been able to bring their project to life: A library of things including a whole host of tools and equipment. Even PB Swiss Tools was impressed by the initiative and donated a number of useful tool kits to the cause without a second thought.

‘Best of...’ and ‘Premium class’ - Heimwerkerpraxis magazine and the test portal heimwerker-test.de regularly list our tools in their ‘best’ lists of product reviews. The PB 8219 tool case has now even been named Tool of the Year 2019.

PB Swiss Tools once again inspires the world of craftsmen. Precision, efficiency and control in every work situation are critical factors for success. Our efforts towards perfecting the best possible tools is what drives us to produce surprising innovations. To this end, our developers are keeping a close eye on the professionals. The result: real innovations for everyday practice.

Even the SCL Tigers in Langnau are using our tools. We took a look behind the scenes.

Rita Gerber and Matthias Flückiger participated in a non-smoking seminar called “Easyway” with the financial support of PB Swiss Tools. What good did it do?

On September 15, 2018 our apprentices, trainees and instructors visited the SwissSkills 2018 vocational championships. We sent them off - individually and in groups - to find the answers to a number of questions. Our apprentices and trainees report below on their experience of SwissSkills 2018.

This year, for the first time, boatbuilders and boat mechanics were represented at the SwissSkills. Micha Bürgi, who organized the competition, reports.

Some 30 staff hit the saddle as part of our annual 'Bike to Work' venture.

During our experimental workshop in April, 13 girls built a small machine with mechanical functions and an electric motor. We accompanied them.

At the “Werftstatt” (which translates freely as “shipyard”) in Burgdorf, three men build boats and restore camper vans – with tools from PB Swiss Tools. We paid them a visit.

What points are important in making work spaces ergonomically better? We made some inquiries in a specialist shop.

Why do we care about our employees’ health? Find out - in our photo essay!

Movie from Sciene Channel, published on January 4th, 2017

We are very happy about our nomination for the "Berner Sozialstern 2017 (Bern Social Star 2017)" and our place among the three finalists. Social commitment has been part of our corporate culture for many years - and not only the persons who are trying to restart their working life at our company are benefiting from it: social commitment also has a positive effect on the company.

At the professional world championships in Abu Dhabi, precious metal was raining for the young Swiss professionals: with 11 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals, our country came second in the Nations' Cup - as the best European nation. We congratulate all participants and especially the winners for this fantastic success!

In October, 2017, Simon Furrer will represent Switzerland at the WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi. This young electrician works with tools made by PB Swiss Tools. In this interview, he tells us why he is such a fan of them and how he is preparing for the competition.

Are end customers willing to pay more for quality? Various companies from Japan reported on the acceptance of our dead-blow mallets with copper heads.

"Likable, believable and superbly rendered": Our new marketing films made it into the medals at Edi.16 and at the Hamburg World Media Festival 2017. See for yourself!

Durability, precision and reliability: These core values define the policy for quality at PB Swiss Tools. Highly trained specialists are required to implement this policy. With internationally recognized vocational training in Switzerland, we have the ideal prerequisites to develop innovative solutions with internal and external experts.

Immerse yourself in the exciting product videos of the Stadler Rail and the Jungfrau Railway, Swiss companies with the greatest demands on people and tools: ElectroTools, Mallets and Hex key L-wrenches.

Without the support of sponsors, many events would not or could hardly be carried out. For companies, such engagements are often good opportunities to present themselves to the public and to show their presence – the same goes for us.

For roughly 20 years, Martin Leuenberger has been working for PB Swiss Tools. The trained electrician is a Swiss certified foreman in plant and apparatus engineering and divisional manager for maintenance, environment and occupational safety and health. He leads a team of 13 employees and also supervises the automation engineer apprentices. We met him for the interview and talked with him about the new heat pump – and about which type of importance sustainability occupies in the company.

A strong commitment to the canton of Bern and the Emmental, successful entrepreneurial actions and the targeted promotion of women in a business field that is heavily formed by men: These and other reasons were decisive factors for the University Bern to give CEO Eva Jaisli an honorary doctorate in December 2015.

Have you ever had a broken bone and then had to remove the screws and plate? Perhaps, our screw-plate removal set OPERACE with our known SwissGrip was used for this operation.

The internal checks and requirements on the material, the production process and the manufacturing are very strict. Only then is it possible for us to stand behind our promise.

We are splitting hairs when it comes to maintaining the tolerances for Allen keys (hex key L-wrenches).

Hardwood and conifers contain cellulose and lignine as building substances. Cellulose is important as raw material for producing paper.

The trip of Martin Arnet and his partner Evelyne Rohner leads through Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina – with the bicycle! In the meantime, the two have reached 8,600 km in top-fit condition, left the heat of Central America and the rain of Columbia behind them in order to defy the mountains and the cold of the Andes.