Eckelt glass
| ECKELT GLAS GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1923 |
| Seat |
Steyr , Austria
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| management | S. Eikenberg |
| Number of employees | 897 (September 2008 ) |
| sales | EUR 65.3 million ( 2007 ) |
| Branch | Glass industry |
| Website | www.eckelt.at |
The Eckelt Glas GmbH with headquarters in Steyr is a flat glass processing firm in Austria . The company has developed from an insulating glass manufacturer to a manufacturer for architectural projects with special technical requirements. For many projects, such as the Prada store in Tokyo, special glasses were individually manufactured.
As a subsidiary of the French Saint-Gobain , Eckelt has been integrated into the international network of processing and trading companies of the industrial group since 1989 . Eckelt looks after six other locations of the French parent company in Austria , as well as three in the Czech Republic and four in Slovakia .
history
August Eckelt laid the foundation stone for the company when he opened a glass factory in Steyr in 1923 . In 1956 the patent for the manufacture of insulating glass was granted and the insulating glass production started. In the 1970s, the operating facilities were expanded. The production of vertical toughened safety glass began. In 1978 the company Stiassny in Vienna was taken over. The expansion of the production halls and the modernization of the systems followed.
In the 1980s, the strategic focus on project business was strengthened. The enamel glass and screen printing production were further developed. A horizontal Tamglas plant was put into operation in 1982 for the production of toughened safety glass .
In 1985 a large glass facade with screen printing was realized for the first time in Europe for the Vienna project Oktoneum, today the seat of the Ministry of Health, Family and Youth . Around 30,000 m 2 of glass were processed here, the octoneum was equipped with 3-pane insulating glass . In 1986 a laminated safety glass system was installed and an enamel glass casting system for full-surface printing was purchased.
In 1989, Paris-based Saint-Gobain took over the shares of the Austrian market leader. In 1992 the large Viennese glazier Fritsch Stiassny Glas GmbH, established in the project business, was taken over by Eckelt.
The main export markets are America , Great Britain , Germany and East Asia . In 2007 the export quota was 45%. The share of sales of the project business is 47% in the same year. In 2001 Eckelt was recognized by the Austrian Ministry of Economic Affairs for its export successes. In 2008 with an innovation award from the architecture journal AIT for the DLS Ecklite Evolution solar control glass.
Projects
- BMW Welt Munich : insulating glass elements in different shapes and combinations. Architecture: Coop Himmelb (l) au
- New Acropolis Museum : Extra white float glass for high transparency in a partially self-supporting construction. Designed for high wind loads and tested for earthquake resistance up to 6.5 on the Richter scale . Architecture: Bernhard Tschumi
- Prada Boutique Aoyama Tokyo: frameless, modeled, spherically curved glass elements. Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
- Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz : Partially applied weather-resistant chrome mirror coating on 1,200 panes. Architecture: Weber + Hofer
- 30 St. Mary Ax (SwissRE Headquarters): insulating glass for thermal insulation in special formats. Architecture: Foster and Partners
The Lentos Art Museum Linz seen from the Danube side.
The Swiss Re Tower seen from the entrance
Individual evidence
- ↑ Locations in Central and Eastern Europe at eckelt.at
- ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt, March 18, 2008 Eckelt Glas is expanding the Steyr plant on a large scale ( Memento from March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Fritsch Stiassny Glastechnik: Company History ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ECKELT, Performance [1]
- ↑ ECKELT, Performance [2]
- ↑ AIT Innovation Prize, [3]
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 12.8 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 26" E