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2004
  Implementation of the new Corporate Design

Acquisition of the rental software supplier SRC,
Vorarlberg/AUSTRIA

Subsidiary in China

Completion of the new saw factory in Arnstadt, Thuringia

Building of a sales and service subsidiary in St. Hélène du Lac,
France

Building of a sales and service subsidiary in Salt Lake City,
USA


The WINTERSTEIGER Group recorded the best results ever
in the company’s history. WINTERSTEIGER continued to
increase its market shares and is the clear world market leader
in each of its three fields of business.


Acquisition of the BANHOLZER GmbH, Germany

Subsidiary in Singapur
     
2003   50 years of WINTERSTEIGER, 450 employees,
Turnover: 60 million euros
   
largest investment project in the company's history in Ried/I.

Construction of a production building including recreation
and office wing

Redesign of the entire building facades

     
2002   New exhibition hall with more than 600 m2

Subsidiary in Switzerland

Acquisition of the company SPIRAKUT, USA
Acquisition of the company SKI2, France
     
2001  

Relocation of the administrative and sales divisions to the newly remodeled office building. Purchase of an additional hall for production and shipping.

Innovation award conferred by Austria for thin cutting circular saw mach 1.4

Start of production of carbide tipped saw blades for thin cutting frame saws.

WINTERSTEIGER becomes

The exclusive supplier of grinding machines to the
German Skiing Federation

The Official supplier of ski service equipment to the
US Ski Team

     
2000  

Development of computer-controlled precision stone grinding machines for professional racing: micro NC

Subsidiary in Italy

Acquisition of the company Grindrite, USA

     
1999   Acquisition of the company SKID, France
Acquisition of the company HEGE, Germany
     
1998   WINTERSTEIGER becomes the exclusive machine supplier to the Austrian Ski Federation ( ÖSV)
     
1997   Purchase of a new company premises and add on to office and production buildings.
     
1994   Subsidiary in Canada
     
1991   Founding of the Division Engineering. The thin cutting frame saw was upgraded for high quality wood thin section and so began a further success story for WINTERSTEIGER
     
1986  

Subsidiary in France
Subsidiary in the USA

Capacity expanded by investing in one of the first laser cutting machines in Austria.

     
1985   The first stone grinding machines in the micro series capable of manufacturing reproducible structures marked our breakthrough as the world leader in ski services.
     
1984   Use of laser technology in production
     
1983   WINTERSTEIGER receives a world wide patent for the precision spaced planter.
     
1982   Further expansion of the production plants caused by the need to increase capacity.
     
1978  

Switch from ski production machines to ski service machines and the beginning of marketing these worldwide.

Subsidiary in Germany

     
1976   Construction of an office block and several production buildings.
     
1970   Development of a wood thin cutting frame saw for ski production.
     
1966   WINTERSTEIGER builds ski dovetail planning machines, ski presses and bonder for ski production and markets these worldwide.
     
1965   Move into the newly works site in Dimmelstraße (today's current site)
     
1963   WINTERSTEIGER is commissioned by Fischer to construct the first
ski production machines;
these were copying milling machines, bonding machines and dovetail plants which, for the first time, enable the revolutionary sandwich-based alpine ski. The first stone grinding machine was also constructed by WINTERSTEIGER and used by Fischer - this was, at the time, the revolutionary micro-surface grinding
     
1958  

Move into the new company site in the Froschaugasse in Ried im Innkreis.

End of the fifties, development of the first plot combine in the world that was produced as a series.

     
1954   First machines for a seed company, a simple plot seeder and a laboratory thresher.
     
1953   Founding of the company WALTER & WINTERSTEIGER in Obernberg/ Inn