Maranello is famous for its red sports cars and Geneva is the Mecca for watch enthusiasts – but the products from Tuttlingen are usually only known to specialists. Over 400 companies produce world-renowned instruments and devices in the global centre of the medical industry. Tweezers, implants and endoscopes: the expertise in the medical industry has grown over time and is passed down from one generation to the next. The company HG-Micro-Instrumente GmbH & Co. KG from Wurmlingen, near Tuttlingen, is one of these specialists. The team, led by managing director and production manager Christoph Götz, produces forceps, ear tweezers and other medical instruments. In addition to skilled manual work, the company relies on modern CNC machining centres and tool systems. For milling tweezers, HG-Micro-Instrumente GmbH & Co. KG uses tool systems from Paul Horn GmbH and hydraulic chucks from Schunk.