Zwahlen and Mayr
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0002661731 |
| founding | 1881 |
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Aigle Switzerland
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| management | Eric Aigroz ( CEO ) Philippe Pot ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 313 (2013) |
| sales | 90.635 million CHF (2012) |
| Branch | Steel construction , metal construction |
| Website | www.zwahlen.ch |
The Zwahlen et Mayr SA (ZM) based in Aigle is an internationally active Swiss steel and metal construction company . The company employs 313 people and in 2012 generated sales of around 91 million Swiss francs. Zwahlen et Mayr is on the Swiss Exchange SWX Swiss Exchange listed . The company has belonged to the Italian industrial company Sitindustrie since 1978 and has been part of the steel construction group Cimolai since 2012 .
Field of activity
The Vaudois company specializes in steel construction, bridge construction and stainless steel pipes.
In the steel construction sector, ZM manufactures large steel structures that are used in bridge constructions with large spans (example: Poya Bridge in Freiburg), buildings , halls , structural elements for space closure or other purposes.
In the area of stainless steel tubes, the company produces tubes made of stainless steel and nickel alloys , which are used to manufacture heat exchangers in the chemical , food and petrochemical industries . ZM also produces cold-drawn precision tubes, which are required in the automotive and pharmaceutical industries , for equipping pneumatic, hydraulic and electromagnetic devices and for machine tools .
history
The company was founded in 1881 by Louis Zwahlen in Lausanne . After the First World War, the engineer Henri Mayr further developed the company's steel construction activities. In 1946 the engineers Jean Zwahlen and Maurice Cosandey set up a technical department within the company, in which modern theories and methods for calculating and realizing steel structures were developed. The company subsequently became one of the largest steel manufacturers in Switzerland. In 1964 it moved to a new production site in Aigle and specialized in particular in bridges and heavy structures.