The Dagesh Group
About Us
The Dagesh Group was established in 1994 by Kobi Franken, with the goal of providing services for large companies in the field of manufacturing and processing chips for milling and engraving machines. Today the company teams’ expertise, knowledge and R&D capabilities extend across a wide variety of fields and are adjusted to provide solutions for all our clients’ needs under one roof, including: planning and engineering, hardware development and production, integration with other systems and so on.
The systems created by the Dagesh Group for its clients are harbingers of innovation and progress for a variety of industries including chips, medical instruments, aesthetics, digital printing, textiles and more.
The advanced development capabilities of the Dagesh Group, alongside its teams’ rich knowledge and experience, aid its clients in quickly completing the development of new technologies and products – from conceptualization to the finalized product, using the Turnkey Project method.
The Group’s services significantly shorten the time needed to bring its clients’ developed products to market, allowing them to save on personnel, training and further resources, and significantly contribute to the quality and commercial success of their products. The Dagesh teams work in full collaboration with the company’s clients, approaching every project as partners, ready and willing to work hard for the joint project to be successful.
The Dagesh site sprawls across 10,000 square meters and includes:
- 500 square-meter clean rooms meeting the standards of ISO 5 (Class 100) and ISO 6 (Class 1000), used to assemble and integrate opto-mechanical systems and high vacuum systems.
- Clean rooms meeting the standards of ISO 6 (Class 1000) equipped with advanced cleaning systems which provide cleaning solutions for the semiconductor and medical industries.
The clean rooms on site undergo controlled cleaning, while using eco-friendly materials.
Parts are produced using CNC-controlled processing centers on 5 simultaneous axes, integrating robotics that provide precision, and allow for high repetition and efficiency without human operators. Likewise, the site makes use of CMM machines for ultra-high levels of precision, with measuring capabilities of up to 4 meters, as well as a three-dimensional remote laser scanner and Zeiss LED sensor scanner which ensures meeting precise specifications.
Since its founding, the Dagesh Group has added hundreds of brilliant experts to its ranks who prefer the familial environment and spacious, accessible location in the periphery to the dense high-tech centers in the Center district. Dagesh is a diverse group employing men and women of all ages (including over-60s) and from all corners of the country, in a wide variety of positions. The company also employs special-needs workers in collaboration with the Reut Association.
Dagesh Group Subsidiaries
The executive arm of the Dagesh Group, providing full projects of planning and engineering for opto-mechanical systems including filming systems, lighting, precise propulsion systems and more.
Using the planning and engineering abilities of Etrog Engineering, the Group provides full project planning, engineering and NPI in accordance with the preferences of the client and the industry; security, civilian, semiconductors, printing and more.
This subsidiary develops, produces and markets advanced solutions for treatment and shipping to manufacturers of flatscreen monitors (FPD), photovoltaic equipment (PV), and Chucks for the semiconductor industry.
With more than 800 clients worldwide, you can find CoreFlow’s contactless buoyancy solutions on the manufacturing floors of many lead FPD factories. CoreFlow has decades of expertise in integrated aeromechanics, providing its clients with peerless quality, precise and stable production solutions, minimizing the risk and maximizing the production process output.
CoreFlow Headquarters resides in Israel, but its sales representatives are deployed globally and are situated in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and Germany.
How Did It All Start?
Kobi Franken, entrepreneur and company CEO, started his professional journey at the Beer Yaakov Professional School, where he learned metal milling and engraving. In his first position he operated a machine at ELOP. His managers recognized his potential and passion for the field, and quickly promoted him to the position of machine calibrator, and after two years he advanced into a programming position, writing code.
In 1994 Kobi decided to go his own way and established the Dagesh Group as a family business in a garage yard in Ness Ziona. At this point Kobi, already a father of 3, was working simultaneously as an employee of ELOP during the day and independently at Dagesh at night. In 1995 he recruited his first employee, Chaim (a technologist who continues to work at the company to this day). In 1996 the factory moved to a larger complex in Rehovot, and became completely independent. By ’98 Dagesh had 8 employees and were operating a number of machines around the clock (all 8 are still working at the company). The Opal Company, later known as Applied Materials, were the company’s first clients.
Today the company consists of 340 employees, and is situated in Yad Binyamin, producing technologies for its clients which shape all our futures.
Values
- Advanced technology
- Uncompromising professionalism
- Familial environment – a professional home for employees
A place to grow
Vision
The slogan “The Sky’s the Limit and the Way is Courtesy” is emblazoned in our main meeting room. The Dagesh Group is a familial company that operates for the Israeli community, environment and industry.
Community – Dagesh takes an active part in educating the next generation using development and promotion of programs that attach Ort high school students to the company’s engineers. The engineers in the program provide the students with assistance and support through all stages of work until the technological project’s completion, and attach it to practical application outside the classroom.
Likewise, the company strives to incorporate employees with special needs, and employs workers in a variety of roles in collaboration with the Reut Association.
Environment – Using the technologies the Dagesh Group develops for its clients, the Group works to reduce air pollution and aids in improving the environment and quality of life for everyone.
Israeli Industry – As an active member of the Israeli Manufacturers’ Union, Kobi Franken recognizes that the chip world in Israel is gradually disappearing, factories are closing overnight. So we at Dagesh seek to bolster Israeli industry and small factories, whose existence is vital for the high-tech companies active in Israel.
