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Our sales companies and represantatives ensure
local customer support in the following countries.
1864
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people.
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since 1864
Production / Sales in Austria
Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH
Mariazeller Strasse 75
A-3160 Traisen
Tel. +43(0)2762 90300-371
Fax +43(0)2762/90300-432
fittings.ps@georgfischer.com
www.fittings.at
Belgium / Luxembourg
Georg Fischer NV/SA
Vaartdijk 109-111 Digue du Canal
B-1070 Bruxelles/Brüssel
Tel. +32(0)2/556 40 20
Fax +32(0)2/524 34 26
be.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/be
We do what
we say.
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Denmark
Georg Fischer A/S
Malervej 4DK-2630 Taastrup
Tel. +45(0)70 22 19-75
Fax +45(0)70 22 19-76
info.dk.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/dk
France
Georg Fischer SAS
Bâtiment Le Rabelais
Paris Nord 2
22 Avenue des Nations
BP 88026 Villepinte
F-95932 Roissy Charles
de Gaulle Cedex
Tel. +33(0)1/41 84 68 84
Fax +33(0)1/41 84 68 85
fr.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/fr
Germany
Georg Fischer GmbH
Daimlerstrasse 6
D-73095 Albershausen
Tel. +49(0)7161/302-0
Fax +49(0)7161/302-259
info.de.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/de
Italy
Georg Fischer S.p.A.
Via Sondrio 1
I-20063 Cernusco S/N (MI)
Tel. +39(0)2/921 861
Fax +39(0)2/921 862 47
it.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/it
Netherlands
Georg Fischer N.V.
Lange Veenteweg 19
NL-8161 PA Epe
Tel. +31(0)578/678 222
Fax +31(0)578/621 768
nl.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/nl
Sweden Georg Fischer AB
Lijeholmsstranden 5
SE-11743 Stockholm
Tel. +46(0)8 506 775 00
Fax +46(0)8 749 237 0
info.se.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/se
Norway
Georg Fischer AS
Rudsletta 97
N-1351 Rud
Tel. +47(0)67 18 29 00
Fax +47(0)67 13 92 92
no.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/no
Switzerland
Georg Fischer
Rohrleitungssysteme (Schweiz) AG
Ebnatstrasse 101
CH-8201 Schaffhausen
Tel. +41(0)52 631 30 26
Fax +41(0)52 631 28 96
ch.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/ch
Spain
Georg Fischer S.A.
Paseo de la Castellana 184
7a Planta
E-28046 Madrid
Tel. +34(0)91/781 98 90
Fax +34(0)91/426 08 23
es.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/es
United Kingdom
George Fischer Sales Limited
Paradise Way
Coventry, CV2 2ST
Tel. +44(0)2476 535 535
Fax +44(0)2476 530 450
uk.ps@georgfischer.com
www.gfps.com/uk
150 years
Pipe fittings
Malleable Cast Iron
Product and Features
Choose from the largest range. Our product features include hot-dip galvanizing suitable for drinking water, corrosion-resistant solid designs, high-grade materials, special ranges for high pressures,
and much more.
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Quality
A sophisticated third-party monitored quality management system and certified products provide safety. CPR, RoHS, PED – we are at the cutting edge of new regulations and offer assistance and customer support for proof of conformity.
Reliability
Reliable logistics from the European central warehouse and leading stock trade partners to ensure
availability in each market for our end users. Our business is characterised by long-term partnerships with
our customers.
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Jubilee Brochure
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Standardized components such as malleable cast iron fittings for long-lasting piping concepts were invented; not like for individual systems, where new systems continously replace the previous.
Availability of spare parts is practically unlimited and piping amendments can be done on a long-term basis.
Support
We support customers with CAD geometry for piping design, EAN bar-coding on the packaging, EDI-ordering service and advice in each of our markets for jointing technology and application issues.
2014
Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen/Switzerland
Georg Fischer Fittings Gmbh, Traisen/Austria
770.971.391 (02.14)
© Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH
A-3160 Traisen/Austria, 2014
Printed in Austria
A product celebrates its
150th anniversary
1864 – Start of malleable cast iron
fittings production in Schaffhausen
1864. In Europe Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, and William I of Prussia with his Minister-President
Otto von Bismarck and Franz Joseph I, rule. In America, the civil war is raging and Abraham Lincoln is
re-elected as President of the United States. After the founding of the Red Cross on the initiative of
Henri Dunant in Geneva the previous year, the first international agreement is signed to protect the
wounded in the field. In the same year, Richard Strauss and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were born.
The world also sees technical innovation: pipe fittings made from malleable cast iron, the so-called
malleable cast iron fittings. However as with some of the above individuals, this product goes largely
unnoticed by the general public, but contributes to the development of modern society and brings
progress and comfort to people’s lives. It will convey gas to heat the bath water and bring hot water
to the bathtub, steam and warm water heating to supply trains and ships, and so on and so forth.
The innovator of this product is Georg Fischer II, who starts production in 1864 in Schaffhausen.
The pioneer of malleable cast iron
fittings
Georg Fischer II was born on
15.12.1834 in Hainfeld, Austria, the
son of Georg Fischer I. Between
1841 and 1850 Georg Fischer II
attended school in Schaffhausen,
Switzerland and during his time
with his grandfather,
Johann Conrad Fischer, he learned
the basics of the manufacture of
steel castings and cast steel,
forging and processing to filings.
Since 1833 his father Georg Fischer I is the owner of a plant for
cast steel products and filings in Hainfeld, and acquires two
hammer mills in the same year, one of them in Traisen, Austria.
In 1838, his brother, Berthold Fischer, joins the company in
Traisen.
From the 20th Century
into the new Millenium
The first fittings
brochure dating
back to 1865
1864
Georg Fischer II buys the premises in Mühlental,
Schaffhausen from his father Georg Fischer I.
There in the same year he begins with the
production of pipe fittings in malleable cast iron.
Thus, Georg Fischer II is the first producer of
malleable cast iron piping connections on the
European continent.
The factory premises in Traisen in 1880
1865
1851 - 56
The first brochure appears with 91 models of pipe fittings, gas
lighting accessories from ¼ -2 inches, and tooling. The cast
fittings represent a cost-effective and technically equivalent
alternative to the previously used forged version. Already in
the 1860s the application on the domestic water supply was
expanding. In the 1870s, the english term “fittings” was first
used in the German catalogue for pipe fittings.
Water, gas and steam piping are mentioned as applications.
Georg Fischer II attends the Polytechnic
Institute in Vienna and spends some years as
an apprentice with his father Georg Fischer I
in Hainfeld, Austria.
In 1856, two years after the death of his
grandfather, Johann Conrad Fischer, at the
age of 22 years Georg Fischer II takes over
the running of the plant in Schaffhausen.
1860
In 1860 Georg Fischer II decides to expand the
manufacturing program for the production of soft
castings (= malleable cast iron).
Today, Georg Fischer is a global group comprising three
divisions - Automotive, Piping Systems and Machining
Solutions. Within this structure, Georg Fischer Fittings
GmbH, Traisen belongs to Georg Fischer Piping Systems.
In 1995, when the company in Traisen, Austria was renamed
to Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH, the company history went
full circle with the year of foundation of 1833.
Production was moved from two other locations in Europe,
and concentrated in Traisen. Since then, this factory is the
Centre of Excellence for malleable cast iron fittings within
Georg Fischer.
Altough state of the art manufacturing methods are used
today and product features have been refined, the concept
of threaded fittings have been remaining the same since
1864, which demonstrates the quality and sustainability
provided by the innovation of the pioneer Georg Fischer II.
Today more than 52 million pipe fittings in malleable cast
iron are produced at the site. Thus Georg Fischer Fittings
GmbH, Traisen is the market leader in Western Europe,
with the high-quality product “Made in Austria”.
Since the 1980s, the compression fitting PRIMOFIT is also
offered, and is produced exclusively in Traisen since 2004.
This product today is represented in every good wholesale
range, and as a problem-solver offers clients solutions for
repairs, equipment additions, material transitions and
much more.
We owe our success to the loyalty of our customers.
A large number of our customers have similar traditions
and fortunately also a passion for long-term partnerships,
which lies very close to our heart.
So the new corporate slogan “All about you!” which is
directly addressing our customers, is very accommodating
to the self-image of our traditional, and at the same time
new Georg Fischer site in Traisen.
Historical team photo fitting production Schaffhausen
The Plant of Georg Fischer fittings GmbH in Traisen today
1851 - London, 1867 - Paris, 1873 - Vienna
This is when the development of the Traisen plant begins.
In 1843, Georg Fischer I hands over the hammer mill in Traisen to
his brother Berthold, which until then had forged spindles for the
cotton industry.
Berthold builds a foundry for malleabilised iron on the site.
Berthold Fischer is awarded medals at three world
exhibitions for his malleable cast iron products.
Timeline of the Plant at Traisen
1844 Renamed to Berthold Fischer - Eisenguss und Stahlwarenfabrik (Traisen). 1871 Dr. Sigmund Schudel, a son-in-law of Georg Fischer I, takes over the 2
There were a variety of malleable iron products manufactured in the following years, however no pipe fittings.
management of the company in Traisen and in 1887 passes the management to his son Berthold Schudel.
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1894 Sale of the Traisen plant to Austrian industrialists Gebrüder von Lenz. In 1898, under the new owners, production of malleable cast iron fittings begins.
1920-1990
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Changing ownership:
1920 Skoda-Wetzler,
1939 Alpine Montangesellschaft,
1973 Voest-Alpine AG
1990 The birth of Fittings Traisen GmbH with a new
ownership structure:
51% Georg Fischer, 49% Voest Alpine Stahl Linz