History



1894   

Master metal worker Ludwig Binder founded a small metal works in Graz-Eggenberg. The main focus of the company’s activities in the next decades was iron works.

1926   

Dr. Alois Sernetz, the founder’s son-in-law, took over the company management and led the enterprise through the confusion of the economic crisis

From 1940    

After the recession years, the beginning of the 1940s heralded an economic upswing. The company grew into a medium-sized enterprise with more than 150 employees.

1954      

The pioneering “Binder System” for vibrating screens was developed and deployed in the foodstuffs industry.

1960       

The company moved from Graz to the newly built industrial premises in Gleisdorf, where the first processing plants for industrial minerals for the building industry were produced.

1971   

To ensure the world-wide marketing of Binder+Co machinery, the company was integrated into the Voestalpine Group. The first large-scale plants in the field of industrial minerals were designed and manufactured.

1978       

Binder+Co developed their first packaging systems for free-flowing bulk materials. 

1989   

The first recycling systems were manufactured. They were deployed for sorting waste glass.

1991   

The company was reprivatised as part of Auricon Beteiligungs AG.

1999   

The company was spun off as an independent public company in the  Waagner-Biro Group.

2006   

From December Binder+Co AG was listed in the unregulated third market  of the Vienna Stock Exchange.

2007   

Binder+Co AG was accepted into the newly created mid market segment in June, and shortly afterwards was relisted on the regulated open market.


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