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SFL engineering
legal form GmbH
founding 1988
Seat Stallhofen ( Austria )
Number of employees about 600
sales € 50 million
Branch Facades & glass technology, steel & plant construction, energy technology & e-mobility
Website www.sfl-engineering.com
Status: 2019

The SFL Engineering (short: SFL) is an Austrian technology company from Stallhofen in Styria . SFL was founded in 1988 and is active in 8 technology sectors: facade construction, metal construction, plant construction, mechanical engineering, lighting technology, energy technology, glass technology and e-mobility. SFL employs more than 600 people in 4 countries (Austria, Hungary, Romania and Switzerland).

history

SFL was founded in 1988 as a planning office and formed the basis for the Stahl-, Fassaden- und Lüftungsbau GmbH created in 1993 . Numerous projects have been implemented in the facade and metal construction sectors as well as in plant and mechanical engineering. In 2002 the company Metallbaureiber GmbH in Graz, 2004 the Mero Austria GmbH with a total of 85 employees and 2010 the Maierhofer Glastechnik in St. Marein in the Mürz Valley. In 2012 all companies were brought together under an umbrella company called SFL technologies. Since 2013, the headquarters in Stallhofen has been supplied exclusively with solar energy. This is done by SFLenergrid , a hybrid energy harvest , storage and supply system: 1 MWp PV, 255 m² solar thermal collectors, 25,000 l water storage, 1.3 Gm³ pendulum storage and 400 kW heat pumps form the basis for this unique realization within an industrial company in Austria.

At the same time, the locations in Eastern Europe were expanded. The Hungarian location in Vep / Szombathely, which was founded in an agricultural engineering institute in the early 1990s, developed into a focus on machine and plant engineering at SFL. The Romanian location in Tăşnad , Satu Mare district , was bought out of an insolvent company and renovated in 2007 . In the course of the expansion, a 680 kW PV system was also installed in 2015 for self-supply.

With FIBAG, which was founded in 2006 and merged in 2015, the SFL's own research center, energy and building research has been carried out with corporate and scientific partners since 2008 - this think tank formed the innovation basis for new product and technology developments.

Dirchroid glass facade elements in the One World Trade Center

Since 2011, SFL has been involved with a consortium in Switzerland in the development of the Graetzel technology discovered by Michael Grätzel and named after him. With the help of this technology, SFL develops energy glass, which works as a technical mimicry based on the principle of plant photosynthesis. This transparent glass technology replaces conventional glass surfaces in buildings and at the same time generates decentralized electrical energy. For the first time the worldwide, new technology was shown as "sundisk" on the roof of the Austrian pavilion as part of the world exhibition, EXPO 2015 in Milan. The technology will be integrated extensively in the Science Tower in Graz and will make a significant contribution to the energy supply in this center for the development of new urban technologies. The use of energy glass in the Science Tower also secured Graz its place as a lead project for Smart Cities in Austria.

An electromobile solution called ELI, a technology platform for investigating new technologies for use in buildings, has also been in development since 2011.

In 2016, a total of almost 400,000 m² of area, 45,000 m² of production area and storage capacity of around 90,000 m² are available, 13,000 m² of which are covered.

On November 2, 2017, insolvency proceedings without self-administration of the company were opened due to the withdrawal of a contract for a major SIGNA project via SFL technologies . As the oldest part of the SFL Group, SFL Engineering continues the culture of innovation.

Buildings

Ferry Dusika indoor stadium
Graz Murinsel
Double-shell facade of the Erste Campus

From 1999 SFL GmbH realized the following structures or parts thereof:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SFL: SFL - portrait. In: www.sfl-technologies.com. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Science Tower website
  3. ^ Topping-out ceremony for the Science Tower in Graz , June 17, 2016 at steiermark.orf.at
  4. ↑ Science Tower Graz at www.inside-graz.at
  5. ↑ ELI website
  6. ↑ https://www.monchstein.at/de/location/the-glass-garden/
  7. ↑ https://www.kunsthalle.at/de/startseite