Julius-Globe’s Győrújbarát facility operates 30+ CNC milling machines, CNC and NC lathes – including simultaneous 5-axis machining centres. The latter play a key role: where conventional 3-axis machining would require multiple setups, the 5-axis machines can complete the entire operation in a single clamping – with shorter lead times, lower cost and reduced risk of error.

We primarily work in custom and small-series production; our specialities include metal machining tasks where tight tolerances meet complex geometries. Quality is our top priority: we have our own quality control laboratory with Wenzel 3D coordinate measuring machines offering a measurement range of up to 1500×800×600 mm.

Julius-Globe is able to professionally machine a wide spectrum of metallic materials. These include structural, free-machining and tool steels, various stainless steels (including duplex and martensitic grades), copper, bronze, aluminium alloys, titanium, high-speed steels, Inconel alloys and powder-metallurgy steels (e.g. Vanadis series). Among plastics: POM, PA6, PTFE, PEEK, PMMA and high-temperature plastics are all machinable in our facility.

A significant proportion of surface treatments – including sandblasting, shot blasting, polishing, ultrasonic cleaning, and mechanical and laser engraving – are performed in-house. Heat treatment and other surface treatment operations (e.g. vacuum hardening, nitriding, PVD, CVD, anodising, hard chrome plating) are carried out in cooperation with our partners.

Our facility has its own quality control laboratory equipped with Wenzel 3D coordinate measuring machines, a spectrometer (for material composition analysis), a Rockwell/Brinell/Vickers hardness tester and a surface roughness gauge. This level of measurement infrastructure is rare – even in the industrially advanced Győr-Moson-Sopron County. Our ISO 9001:2015 certification has been maintained continuously since 2007.

We are more than a CNC shop – we operate a fully digitalised manufacturing chain: CREO, CATIA, EdgeCAM and ESPRIT systems, with barcode-based product tracking. Our goal is to support every project as a competent technical partner – we review customer drawings for manufacturability and create 3D models where needed before the first part is produced.

NAVIGATOR Investments Plc. is an industrial-technology holding listed on the Xtend market of the Budapest Stock Exchange since 2022, which acquired Julius-Globe in 2024. The stock exchange background provides credibility and a firm basis for growth, while the holding structure ensures stability (e.g. in financing and financial operations) and professional management – for both subsidiaries and customers.

NAVIGATOR’s continuously expanding industrial value chain provides comprehensive solutions – from R&D and design through manufacturing to assembly, maintenance and service. As a technical solutions provider, the Group comprises the following divisions:

• Components and structural elements division (medium and large series production, CNC Swiss-type turning: Instrum subsidiary)
• Fittings and valves division
• Fixtures and industrial automation division
• Automation, robotics and AI division

Our partners have access to the full capacity and competence of the group through a single point of contact – Julius-Globe and its sister companies are available as long-term partners for complex manufacturing and design projects alike.

Julius-Globe’s 6-strong development engineering team has in recent years worked on projects including the mechanical system of the RadMag radiation and magnetic field measurement instrument aboard the RADCUBE 3U satellite (SpaceX Transporter-7 mission), an engine block contamination testing device and sunroof blind manufacturing technology development (automotive), a new heat treatment process for oil rig components (energy sector), a medical knee prosthesis experiment, and aerodynamic testing of propellers.

From design through to manufacturing preparation, we are capable of realising even complex projects entirely in-house. We are proud that 2 satellites currently orbit Earth for which we designed equipment, manufactured multiple components and developed manufacturing technologies.

In fixture and special machine engineering (and machining), we develop solutions for a specific production or inspection task: we receive orders for measuring fixtures, assembly fixtures or special-purpose machines that our customers use to develop or inspect their own production lines. We know the task to be fulfilled precisely from the outset, receive detailed information, and the requirement is largely specified. Following design, we carry out manufacturing and assembly, then test and validate the fixture.
Example: Since 2018 we have been supplying measuring instruments for Audi’s electric motor development programme – accompanying the product through its entire lifecycle from prototype phase to mass production launch.

In research and development, we receive a problem to be solved from our customers for which the technical solution is undefined or barely defined. We develop a solution from scratch through a typically extended iterative process (involving design, prototypes and testing). The result may be a new process, a new instrument or an entirely new manufacturing solution or technology development.
Example: Within the framework of the ESA space weather distributed sensor network development concept, we developed – together with researchers from Remred and the (Hungarian) Centre for Energy Research – a combined instrument for measuring both the radiation field and the magnetic field in space, which will shortly be conducting measurements as part of the ESA space weather small-satellite constellation mission.