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Fischer Roofing company history timeline

1983

1983: The company acquires Ateliers des Charmilles, entering the EDM market.

1984

Barely three years later, 1984 saw the first extension.

1988

In 1988, Fischer opened the factory in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

1990

Hans Fischer was happy to meet these needs and in 1990 founded the first fischer Rohrtechnik in Fautenbach.

Since 1990, fischer South Africa has been a successful manufacturer and supplier of stainless steel tubing and components for the automotive, transportation and construction industries, as well as several other segments, both for the domestic and international markets.

In 1990, the company restructured its corporate organization as well, setting up Georg Fischer AG as a holding company for its primary business groups.

1991

As part of its restructuring effort, the company shut down its steel foundry at its Schaffhausen site, converting the plant to automotive components production in 1991.

1993

In 1993, Max’s desire to see Ohio State’s business college transformed into one of the premier institutions in the country resulted in a $20 million gift that spearheaded the building of what is now a highly competitive, top-ranked business school.

1994

Then in 1994, the company began spinning off a number of noncore operations, such as a real estate business, and logistics and accounting businesses.

1995

The headquarters for vacuum cleaner tubes fischer Rohrtechnik Sundern was founded in 1995 by Hans Fischer and August Cordes.

The Automotive Products division was boosted in 1995 with the purchase of Schubert & Salzer Eisenguss, based in Leipzig, Germany, which produced components for trucks and other heavy industrial vehicles and construction equipment.

1995: The company acquires the automotive components maker Schubert & Salzer Eisenguss in Germany.

1996

1996: The company acquires Agie of Switzerland, which is merged with Charmilles to form Agie Charmilles, a world-leading EDM group; the company acquires R&G Sloane Manufacturing Co. in the United States to establish plastics production there.

1998

So, for Hans Fischer, this was a good opportunity for a strategic expansion of the fischer group's product portfolio when the company was put on sale in 1998.

1998: Agie Charmilles forms two joint ventures in China.

1999

100 percent fischer Since 1999, initially ThyssenKrupp Mexinox, later Outokumpu, and fischer Edelstahlrohre operated the joint venture fischer Mexicana S.A. de C.V. together.

These purchases, made in 1999, raised the company's aluminum components casting capacity by more than four times.

2000

2000: The company acquires Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer from Krupp Thyssen, which is merged into Buss and Waeschle to form Coperion Holding.

2001

Within sight of the volcano Popocatepetl, in 2001 the Mexican tubing technology company, fischer Tubtech S.A. de C.V., was founded.

2002

In 2002, fischer Tubetech Inc. was founded for the further processing of stainless steel tubes into components and subassemblies.

By the end of 2002, the group's sales had shrunk by some 11 percent from the previous year, to slightly less than SFr 3.5 billion.

2002: Georg Fischer celebrates its 200th anniversary.

2003

Just two years later the branch set a milestone for the fischer group: in 2003 it became the first site to produce parts using hydroforming.

2003: With sales slipping, the company announces its restructuring and plans to shed 1,000 jobs.

2006

Ltd in December 2006, the fischer group ventured the step into the Middle Kingdom.

2007

Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2007, 419–50.

Revolutionary tubing technology – In 2007, with the acquisition of hde Solutions in Menden, the fischer group became a leading global hydroforming provider and the hydroforming technology leader in Germany.

2008

My first book, A Poverty of Rights (Stanford, 2008), examines how weak citizenship rights and residential informality came to define urban poverty, popular social struggles, and the political dynamics of inequality in modern Brazil.

2012

In 2012, the head of fischer Canada, Thomas Prell, also took over the management of fischer USA. Since then, the number of employees has risen from 20 to 277, the volume produced from 350,000 to 12 million meters.

2014

In 2014, a gift created the Max M. Fisher Scholars and the Fisher Faculty Eminence Award, further demonstrating the family’s continuing belief in the transformational power of education at The Ohio State University.

2015

In 2015, however, Outokumpu withdrew from the tubing business.

2018

—Part of the core team of La Ville informelle au XXe siècle —Discusses contemporary urban studies with Marco Garrido, Dialogo, Winter 2018 —Discusses Urban Poverty in Latin America [video, 3 minutes]

In 2018, more than 300 employees processed over 45,000 tonnes of stainless steel into approximately 4 million meters of stainless steel tubing.

2019

Since 2019 the utilized space has grown to 11,800 m2. fischer Uruguay is the first location within the fischer group with its own coil material slitting line.

2021

“Historicizing Informal Governance in 20th Century Brazil,” Contemporary Social Science, May 2021.

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