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january february march
■ saving costs through intelligent ■ innovations: Pfleiderer Engineered
■ growth – but not at any price:
procurement logistics: Pfleiderer
Woods presents new decors reflecting the Pfleiderer announces its interest in acquiring
Engineered Woods has bundled its wood latest design trends at the specialist trade its insolvent wood processing competitor
procurement activities together in its affili- fair ZOW 2003.
HORNITEX. However, the price becomes
ate Interwood GmbH. This company ensures A team of Pfleiderer trainees wins and
increasingly unrealistic in the face of the
a constant supply of raw materials for
receives an award of honor at national level economic realities, and Pfleiderer withdraws
wood processing and for the biomass power for its entry in the Oberpfalz regional com- from the bidding.
plants operating at Pfleiderer’s production petition “Youth Researches”, sponsored by
sites.
Pfleiderer since 1996.
■ strengthening market presence,
■ new strategic direction: The Pfleiderer ■ wirus
winning new markets: Pfleiderer Engi- Group decides to focus its portfolio on its
neered Woods takes over new brands and Engineered Woods and Infrastructure
sales from the Swiss company Fideris AG, Technology segments, thereby divesting its
further strengthening its market presence Doors and Windows and Insulation Technol-
in western Europe.
ogy business centers, both closely linked to
Thanks to innovative water management
products, Pfleiderer water systems finds
lucrative new niche markets for its environmental
technology.
the domestic construction industry.
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windows appear independently
on the market: Pfleiderer AG sells
its windows activities through a management
buy-out by a team of top managers
from the Windows group. All employees are
taken over.
■ “solid track” propels pfleiderer into ■ taking stock: The six-month figures
■ ursa
the future: The German railways operator, for the first half of 2002 clearly reflect the
Deutsche Bundesbahn, opens its new high- weak economy. But despite lower results,
speed link between Cologne and Frankfurt Pfleiderer AG makes the grade in a difficult
am Main. Pfleiderer track systems produced market.
and delivered over 180,000 concrete
sleepers for the section.
® insulation materials has
a new future in europe: The Spanish
company Uralita S.A. acquires Pfleiderer
Insulation Technology, including its seven
locations in Germany, Belgium and eastern
Europe. URSA ® july august september
Insulation Materials now
rounds off one of Europe’s leading suppliers
of building materials.
■ moralt ® and wirus ® doors find a new ■ considerable reduction in corporate ■ blockboards with their own market
home: The successful sale of the Doors indebtedness: Pfleiderer AG’s nine-month identity: The traditional name MORALT
activities to the Danish Vest-Wood Group figures for 2002 provide an initial overview
marks the end of Pfleiderer’s strategic
of what effects the company’s new strategic
divestments, earlier than planned. Produc- direction has already had. The results show
tion at Oettingen, Mittweida and Lenti is much lower corporate indebtedness due
continued.
to income from the divestments, with book
losses as non-recurring effects. The results
also mark the company’s separation from
the German construction industry.
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october november december
is re-introduced for blockboards produced
by Pfleiderer Engineered Woods. Sales will
be managed independently at Bad Tölz.