As managing partner, he is responsible for production, personnel, and sales. Buss shares the company management with Stefan Gentil, the son of the company's founder, who has been in this position since 1997 and is responsible for design and quality management. The long-time co-managing director Wolfgang Sußner has stepped back from the company's leadership but continues to provide advisory support.
Buss, born in 1988, has been firmly rooted in grinding technology since graduating from high school in 2008. After his training as an industrial mechanic, specializing in machine and plant engineering, at Rolls-Royce Germany in Oberursel, he was employed in 2011 at the Frankfurt precision tool grinding company Langnickel and Pohl GmbH, initially in the production of cutting tools and then as production manager. In 2019, Buss joined Gentil, where he also worked as production manager until his transition to management. He concurrently completed a degree in economics and business psychology at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Frankfurt am Main.
Gentil Hartmetallwerkzeuge is a family-owned manufacturer, founded in 1982, of custom-made cutting tools made of solid carbide, HSS, in soldered versions, with indexable inserts and combined tools, for example, for drilling, reaming, countersinking, tapping, milling, and turning. Accordingly, the portfolio ranges from drills and step drills, step countersinks and step reamers to mills, form mills, form turning tools, and cutting rotors, also executed as indexable insert tools. The medium-sized company also uses the extremely hard and wear-resistant cutting material polycrystalline diamond (PCD), whose main applications are the machining of wood, plastics, and non-ferrous metals, and in exceptional cases, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (CBN). The repair and resharpening of tools from both in-house and external production complement the offering.
With the production of precision and wear parts, tools for crushing and mixing, as well as punching and forming tools, Gentil is currently tapping into further promising industries. This step is underscored by the new brand appearance of the company under the name Gentil Special Tools and the imminent launch of a completely new website.
Buss: 'The special tools manufactured in our house are often the only way when it comes to the efficient machining of complex workpiece geometries. From intensive consulting to design to manufacturing and maintenance of the tools, we realize everything from a single source. This and the high quality of our products are the basis for the sometimes very long customer relationships. I want to build seamlessly on this. In addition, I want to make future-oriented processes such as laser technology or 3D printing usable in cooperation with technology leaders like academic institutions, which enable advantages such as even higher machining speeds while simultaneously increasing tool life and saving resources.'
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