Award in the category "more than 100 employees" at the "Best Business Award for Sustainable Management"
Product innovations: thin-cutting saw blades with 0.7 mm cutting kerf (WOODTECH), GPS technology for field research (SEEDMECH)
Basejet base repair automat, Speedtronic Pro / Drivetronic ski binding setting and testing devices (SPORTS)
Subsidiary in Brazil and Moscow
Implementation of the new Corporate Design
Acquisition of the rental software supplier SRC, Vorarlberg/AUSTRIA
Completion of the new saw factory in Arnstadt, Thuringia
Building of a sales and service subsidiary in St. Hélène du Lac,
France 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
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
New exhibition hall with more than 600 m2
Acquisition of the company SPIRAKUT, USA
Acquisition of the company SKI2, France
Subsidiary in Switzerland
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
Development of computer-controlled precision stone grinding machines for professional racing: micro NC
Subsidiary in Italy
Acquisition of the company Grindrite, USA
Acquisition of the company SKID, France
Acquisition of the company HEGE, Germany
WINTERSTEIGER becomes the exclusive machine supplier to the Austrian Ski Federation ( ÖSV)
Purchase of a new company premises and add on to office and production buildings.
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
Subsidiary in France
Subsidiary in the USA
Capacity expanded by investing in one of the first laser cutting machines in Austria
The first stone grinding machines in the micro series capable of manufacturing reproducible structures marked our breakthrough as the world leader in ski services
Use of laser technology in production
WINTERSTEIGER receives a world wide patent for the precision spaced planter
Further expansion of the production plants caused by the need to increase capacity
Switch from ski production machines to ski service machines and the beginning of marketing these worldwide
Subsidiary in Germany
Construction of an office block and several production buildings
Development of a wood thin cutting frame saw for ski production
WINTERSTEIGER builds ski dovetail planning machines, ski presses and bonder for ski production and markets these worldwide
Move into the newly works site in Dimmelstraße (today's current site)
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
The first plot combine harvester produced in volume production
Move into the new company site in the Froschaugasse in Ried im Innkreis
First machines for a seed company, a simple plot seeder and a laboratory thresher
Founding of the company WALTER & WINTERSTEIGER in Obernberg/ Inn
