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over these last 50 years, the business The Zykon undercut
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would not be in the health which it anchor was another
today enjoys. In fact, as Herr Fischer says: fischer innovation, which
“2007 was the best year in our company’s
led to a quantum leap
history”. Fischer would also not have been
for fischer in façade
able to make the proud boast that it has, as a
fixings – the ACT system
group, by far the largest number of products
for fixing stonework,
on the market which carry a European Techni-
ceramic and fibre cement
cal Approval. Quality has always been an
boards, and which was
over-riding concern for fischer, and its success
later also used for fixing
in gaining ETAs, since their introduction ten
glass and photovoltaic
years ago, has made this clearer than ever.
modules. The fischer
From South Africa to Norway, from
Zykon glass fitting FZP-G
Argentina to Japan, fischer fixing systems are
remains the only
in demand by all types of customer ranging
undercut anchor with
from DIY enthusiasts to civil engineering
construction approval for
contractors. Nowadays plastic plugs make up
Company founder, Arthur Fischer
fixing glass panes
just a small fraction of the product range:
without the need to drill
through the glass.
steel anchors and chemical fixings, adhesives
in his workshop, looked at it from all sides,
Another recent innovation is the fischer
and complete systems (for instance the
shaping it and cutting notches into it. That was
Thermax - a revolutionary spaced installation
installation grid in industrial constructions) are
the birth of the world’s most famous plug: the
system, which is ideal for fixing a wide range
part of the range.
S-Plug. This immediately revolutionised the
market for fixing products. Before its innovation,
of loads to buildings with composite thermal
builders had used small wooden blocks set in
insulation systems, without creating thermal
plaster or hemp-filled metal sleeves.
bridges. Again, this is another example of
However the S-Plug was not the first or the
where fischer is today the first and only
last invention of the skilled locksmith: the photo
manufacturer.
flash with synchronised release came first,
Today, the product assortment covers
followed later by the fischertechnik
virtually the whole spectrum of fixings. Next
construction kit, a reusable laundry hanger and
to the classic plugs and anchors, fischer also
most recently the TiP play material.
supplies a fire protection system with fire
Innovation has driven fischer forward for the last
stops, SaMontec for domestic service
50 years, and most of those innovations have
installations, elements for composite thermal
been in the field of fixings technology. “We see
insulation systems as well as adhesives, bolts
ourselves as problem solvers”, says Klaus
and screws.
Fischer. This stance is borne out by the
Looking to the future there seems no
company’s active global industrial rights
immediate reason why the current rapid and
policy. Each year fischer files 14.19 patents per
successful growth of the fischer group should
1,000 employees in Germany – the
cease. The company remains securely in the
industry average is 0.58 – and this places
hands of its founding family and its global
fischer third in German industry as a whole.
positioning and very diverse product range
From fischer Automotive OEM products To name just a few innovation highlights
serve to cushion the business from the
include cup holders and CD boxes, storage trays from the last 50 years - the fischer SX was the
vagaries of the international market and from
and ventilation nozzles, kinematic and first anchor with quadruple expansion, the
the effects of peaks and troughs in specific
multi-functional components. The manufacturer fischer SXS was the world’s first plastic plug
product sectors.
of a patented audio archive (fischer CBOX) has
with construction approval for use in cracked
The management certainly has an eye on
become a specialist in serving demand from the
concrete. The fischer UX was the first
what needs to be done and is aware of the
world-wide automotive industry. Its customers
universal plug which ties into knots, and the SXR
need for a “profound understanding of our
during its first 25 years have included Audi,
10 long-shaft fixing which will be launched this
customers’ needs” and “to know what will be
BMW and Daimler, General Motors and Ford,
year is the first nylon fixing with an (ETA) for
important for our customers in ten or fifteen
Toyota and Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce and Rover.
virtually all load-bearing types of masonry
year’s time”.
The fact that the company has two other
materials and for centric tension in cracked
“Our growth stands on a very wide base,”
divisions should also not be forgotten, namely
concrete.
as Klaus Fischer puts it.
fischertechnik (construction kits) and fischer
Heavy duty anchoring is another area where
fischer sets the standard. The most recent
Process Consulting. fischertechnik, which itself
advance developments, the hammerset anchor
celebrated 40 years on the market in 2005, is
EA II and the anchor bolt FBN II make maximum
another of Artur Fischer’s inventions, mainly
use of the arithmetical tensile load capacity of
aimed at the ‘educational toy’ market, while
concrete, which means that can now be used
the newer fPS division allows other companies
right up to the load limit.
to share in the business process success which
In the fast-growing chemical anchoring
fischer has enjoyed since 1948.
sector, fischer is also leading the way. With the
The company has come a long way since that
Highbond anchor and the unique FIS V injection
day in 1958 when Artur Fischer, clamped a mortar, fischer offers the world’s most powerful
round piece of nylon (polyamide) into a vice resin anchor for cracked concrete.
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