Forster (company)
| Forster Verkehrs- und Werbetechnik GmbH
Forster Metallbau Gesellschaft mbH Forster Industrietechnik GmbH |
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
| Number of employees | 750 |
| Branch | Traffic engineering, metal construction, screen printing, digital printing, advertising technology, noise protection, shelving systems, object signage |
| Website | www.forster.at |
Forster is a traffic technology manufacturer in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Lower Austria for traffic technology, metal construction, screen printing, digital printing, advertising technology, noise protection, shelving systems, and property signage. The company carries the Austrian national coat of arms .
history
In 1956, Franz Forster laid the foundation stone for today's Forster group of companies in Waidhofen an der Ybbs : "Franz Forster Metalware Production" was founded in a former scythe hammer factory, which initially produced embossed plates. In addition, traffic signs were produced very soon. Screen printing went hand in hand with the production of signs and opened up new possibilities in production, design and quality. Plastic processing and coating were also set up.
Due to the increasing demand, a sales office was founded in Vienna in 1973 and a year later a sales office in Salzburg . At that time (early 1970s) Forster was already setting up the first overhead signposts in Austria.
In 1977 Franz Forster bought a company in Sankt Peter in der Au in order to manufacture noise barriers there . In 1981 the new head office was opened on the outskirts of Waidhofen an der Ybbs. In the area of object signage, the production of signs for indoor and outdoor use began. In addition, shelving systems for the library sector became a new pillar of the company, as did the introduction of technical screen printing (1985). After Forster Metallbau Gesellschaft mbH was founded, production in the St. Peter in der Au plant was increasingly expanded. In addition to the existing production program “Noise Barriers” and “Supplied Parts for Industry”, the production of shelving systems was also further strengthened.
The introduction of digital printing not only opened up new possibilities in advertising technology, but was also used in every other product area of the Forster company, e.g. B. printed noise barriers and shelving systems. Forster is also important in Austria in special printing technology. Forster has been printing motorway vignettes since 1998
Company foundations and takeovers since 1987:
- 1987: Forster took a majority stake in today's Colberg & Forster GmbH in Peine (Germany)
- 1989: Arbitec-Forster GmbH based in Neuss ( Germany )
- 1994: Forster Ecospace Limited in Oxfordshire ( Great Britain )
- 1995: Forster Industrietechnik GmbH in Oberland ( Austria )
- 2000: Forster Archiv- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH in Switzerland based in Oetwil am See (sales office in Yverdon-les-Bains)
- 2004: Majority takeover of the Wako company based in Bielsko-Biała ( Poland )
- 2007: Samodef-Forster Sarl is in France established
- 2008: Forster archívna a dopravná technika sro sells noise protection and traffic technology products as well as shelving systems in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
The company from 1956 has developed into a group of companies with around 750 employees in Germany and abroad.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motorway vignettes produced in Lower Austria ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. in the newsletter of the Federation of Industry of February 27, 2009, accessed on February 1, 2012.
