in 1973 the dutch government divided the company into two independent parts: eurometaal, and hembrug machine tools. eurometaal took the company's military production facilities including those for arms and armaments, while hembrug took the precision tool manufacturing. in 1983, the privatization of hembrug followed the company moving to the figeeweg in the waarderpolder in haarlem. hembrug went on to develop ultra-precision lathes. eurometaal also sought to target the civil market and manufactured parts for cars, forklifts, milking robots, high-precision precision tools, light commercials, sailboats, and durable locks. it also developed a press for the production of coins for the dutch mint, which struck guilders and later euro coins. a unique technical event was the acquisition of a 3000-ton soil pump, which was the largest in europe in terms of capacity and stroke length.