FMW is the Austrian engineering company specialized in handling systems for the pulp, paper, energy, chipboard and recycling industry. We provide the full spectrum from consulting, design, project execution to after sales services. We engineer your progress.
Our history
FMW has a dynamic history going back to 1962. It has been focused on pulp and paper eversince adding different industries throughout the years.
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1962
Foundation of FMW Austria with an initial focus on plants for the sugar industry.
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1962-1970
Refocus of the business on the pulp and paper industry and relocation of the production from
Vienna to Kirchstetten.
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1970s-80s
Continuous expansion in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.
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1990s
Expansion of scope of supply (plants for building industry)
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2000
Launch of new product lines: Stacker-reclaimer, dewiring systems for recycled-paper and pulp bales
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2002
FMW delivers the largest recycled paper handling plants in North America (Bowater, Alabama) and Europe (Stora Enso, Belgium).
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2003
Entry in new business segment: Mixing plants.
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2004/2005
FMW becomes market leader in biofuel handling plants
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2006
Expansion of Stacker-reclaimer systems to South and North America.
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2007
Acquisition of Cimprogetti S.p.A (Dalmine, Italy), a manufacturer of lime kilns.
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2009
FMW acquires the largest project in the company’s history contracting a cement plant in Tcheljabinsk, Russia.
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2010
FMW delivers biomass handling equipment for Europe’s largest biomass plant in Poland.
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2014
Cimprogetti is sold separately from FMW in an MBO.
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2018
Commissioning of the world's first fully automated dewiring system for the plastics industry. Expansion into the recycling industry.
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2022
Opening of two new subsidiaries in the USA and China: FMW North America and FMW Automation Technologies Shanghai
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Today
FMW is engineering your progress
