Between Stuttgart and Heidelberg, in the Swabian wine village of Frauenzimmern, the best parquet sander in the world was developed almost 30 years ago. Born in Frauenzimmern and trained as a mechanical engineer, Eugen Lägler recognised in the fifties the benefits of automation in parquet sanding. He called this first belt sander for parquet processing "HUMMEL" due to its humming drive noise without foreseeing that this name would soon become a synonym for perfect parquet sanding. The Hummel asserted itself and grew to become the most important work machine for parquet layers in Germany, Europe and finally in the whole world.

Over the years, Eugen Lägler developed numerous other parquet sanders which supplemented the performance profile of the HUMMEL. From the edger UNICO, over the stair and corner sander ELAN, to the modern three-disc sander TRIO, these systems have often been copied but never equalled. The parquet layer business without the HUMMEL is unthinkable and stands unopposed at the peak of international floor sanding technology.