Peter Pflaum

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Peter Pflaum Sr. (* 1. October 1933 in Zmajevo ( German  Altker ), Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † 22. August 2011 in Traun ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and is considered the inventor of the self-supporting mineral wool - the sandwich panel .

Life

Peter Pflaum was born the son of a master plumber . His family belonged to the German-speaking Danube Swabian minority in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After the Second World War , he and all remaining Germans were imprisoned in internment camps by communist partisans. Pflaum was one of the few inmates who survived. In the spring of 1947 he and his family managed to escape via Hungary to the American zone of occupation in Austria . In 1955 Peter Pflaum founded his first company, a construction and bodywork plumbing shop. Over the years, the small plumbing shop developed into an industrial company with 150 employees. The company produces over 1 million m 2 of facade elements annually on an area of 55,000 m 2 in Traun / Austria . In March 2008, the world's largest steel group ArcelorMittal took over the company.

Services

Peter Pflaum is the inventor of the modern composite facade element with a mineral wool core and metallic cover panels in a self-supporting design (mineral wool sandwich panel ).

In 1978 he built the first continuously producing system for sandwich panels with a polyurethane foam core in Austria. At the turn of the millennium, Peter Pflaum again constructed the first continuously producing plant for mineral wool sandwich panels in Europe.

Today, construction with self-supporting composite elements is a standard in global industrial hall construction. Around 80–100 million m² of composite elements are produced throughout Europe today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ArcelorMittal took over Pflaum & Söhne , ORF, May 15, 2008, accessed on August 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Plum, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Altker
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2011
Place of death Traun