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770.971.391 (02.14)© Georg Fischer Fittings GmbHA-3160 Traisen/Austria, 2014Printed in Austria

Production / Sales in AustriaGeorg Fischer Fittings GmbHMariazeller Strasse 75A-3160 TraisenTel. +43(0)2762 90300-371Fax +43(0)2762/90300-432fittings.ps@georgfischer.comwww.fittings.at

Belgium / LuxembourgGeorg Fischer NV/SA Vaartdijk 109-111 Digue du Canal B-1070 Bruxelles/Brüssel Tel. +32(0)2/556 40 20 Fax +32(0)2/524 34 26 be.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/be

DenmarkGeorg Fischer A/S Malervej 4DK-2630 Taastrup Tel. +45(0)70 22 19-75 Fax +45(0)70 22 19-76 info.dk.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/dk

FranceGeorg Fischer SAS Bâtiment Le Rabelais Paris Nord 2 22 Avenue des Nations BP 88026 Villepinte F-95932 Roissy Charles de Gaulle Cedex Tel. +33(0)1/41 84 68 84 Fax +33(0)1/41 84 68 85 fr.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/fr

GermanyGeorg Fischer GmbH Daimlerstrasse 6 D-73095 Albershausen Tel. +49(0)7161/302-0 Fax +49(0)7161/302-259 info.de.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/de

ItalyGeorg Fischer S.p.A. Via Sondrio 1 I-20063 Cernusco S/N (MI) Tel. +39(0)2/921 861 Fax +39(0)2/921 862 47 it.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/it

NetherlandsGeorg Fischer N.V. Lange Veenteweg 19 NL-8161 PA Epe Tel. +31(0)578/678 222 Fax +31(0)578/621 768 nl.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/nl

NorwayGeorg Fischer AS Rudsletta 97 N-1351 Rud Tel. +47(0)67 18 29 00 Fax +47(0)67 13 92 92 no.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/no

SpainGeorg Fischer S.A. Paseo de la Castellana 184 7a Planta E-28046 Madrid Tel. +34(0)91/781 98 90 Fax +34(0)91/426 08 23 es.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/es

Sweden Georg Fischer AB Lijeholmsstranden 5 SE-11743 Stockholm Tel. +46(0)8 506 775 00 Fax +46(0)8 749 237 0 info.se.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/se

SwitzerlandGeorg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme (Schweiz) AG Ebnatstrasse 101 CH-8201 Schaffhausen Tel. +41(0)52 631 30 26 Fax +41(0)52 631 28 96 ch.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/ch

United KingdomGeorge Fischer Sales Limited Paradise Way Coventry, CV2 2ST Tel. +44(0)2476 535 535 Fax +44(0)2476 530 450 uk.ps@georgfischer.com www.gfps.com/uk

We support youOur sales companies and represantatives ensure local customer support in the following countries.

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Product and Features

Concept Standardized components such as malleable cast iron fittings for long-lasting piping concepts were invented; not like for individual systems, where new systems continously replace the previous. Availability of spare parts is practically unlimited and piping amendments can be done on a long-term basis.

Product and Features Choose from the largest range. Our product features include hot-dip galvanizing suitable for drinking water, corrosion-resistant solid designs, high-grade materials, special ranges for high pressures, and much more.

Quality A sophisticated third-party monitored quality management system and certified products provide safety. CPR, RoHS, PED – we are at the cutting edge of new regulations and offer assistance and customer support for proof of conformity.

Reliability Reliable logistics from the European central warehouse and leading stock trade partners to ensure availability in each market for our end users. Our business is characterised by long-term partnerships with our customers.

Support We support customers with CAD geometry for piping design, EAN bar-coding on the packaging, EDI-ordering service and advice in each of our markets for jointing technology and application issues.

The advantages of a proven solution

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We act fast.We put customers first.

We do what we say.

We respect people.

All about you

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The pioneer of malleable cast iron fittings

A product celebrates its 150th anniversary1864. In Europe Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, and William I of Prussia with his Minister-President Otto von Bismarck and Franz Joseph I, rule. In America, the civil war is raging and Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as President of the United States. After the founding of the Red Cross on the initiative of Henri Dunant in Geneva the previous year, the first international agreement is signed to protect the wounded in the field. In the same year, Richard Strauss and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were born. The world also sees technical innovation: pipe fittings made from malleable cast iron, the so-called malleable cast iron fittings. However as with some of the above individuals, this product goes largely unnoticed by the general public, but contributes to the development of modern society and brings progress and comfort to people’s lives. It will convey gas to heat the bath water and bring hot water to the bathtub, steam and warm water heating to supply trains and ships, and so on and so forth.The innovator of this product is Georg Fischer II, who starts production in 1864 in Schaffhausen.

This is when the development of the Traisen plant begins.In 1843, Georg Fischer I hands over the hammer mill in Traisen to his brother Berthold, which until then had forged spindles for the cotton industry.Berthold builds a foundry for malleabilised iron on the site.

1851 - 56Georg Fischer II attends the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna and spends some years as an apprentice with his father Georg Fischer I in Hainfeld, Austria.In 1856, two years after the death of his grandfather, Johann Conrad Fischer, at the age of 22 years Georg Fischer II takes over the running of the plant in Schaffhausen.

1860 In 1860 Georg Fischer II decides to expand the manufacturing program for the production of soft castings (= malleable cast iron).

1844 Renamed to Berthold Fischer - Eisenguss und Stahlwarenfabrik (Traisen). There were a variety of malleable iron products manufactured in the following years, however no pipe fittings.

1864 – Start of malleable cast iron fittings production in Schaffhausen

From the 20th Century into the new Millenium

1871 Dr. Sigmund Schudel, a son-in-law of Georg Fischer I, takes over the management of the company in Traisen and in 1887 passes the management to his son Berthold Schudel.

1920-1990 Changing ownership: 1920 Skoda-Wetzler, 1939 Alpine Montangesellschaft, 1973 Voest-Alpine AG

1990 The birth of Fittings Traisen GmbH with a new ownership structure: 51% Georg Fischer, 49% Voest Alpine Stahl Linz

1864 Georg Fischer II buys the premises in Mühlental, Schaffhausen from his father Georg Fischer I. There in the same year he begins with the production of pipe fittings in malleable cast iron.Thus, Georg Fischer II is the first producer of malleable cast iron piping connections on the European continent.

1865The first brochure appears with 91 models of pipe fittings, gas lighting accessories from ¼ -2 inches, and tooling. The cast fittings represent a cost-effective and technically equivalent alternative to the previously used forged version. Already in the 1860s the application on the domestic water supply was expanding. In the 1870s, the english term “fittings” was first used in the German catalogue for pipe fittings. Water, gas and steam piping are mentioned as applications.

1851 - London, 1867 - Paris, 1873 - ViennaBerthold Fischer is awarded medals at three world exhibitions for his malleable cast iron products.

1894 Sale of the Traisen plant to Austrian industrialists Gebrüder von Lenz. In 1898, under the new owners, production of malleable cast iron fittings begins.

Today, Georg Fischer is a global group comprising three divisions - Automotive, Piping Systems and Machining Solutions. Within this structure, Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH, Traisen belongs to Georg Fischer Piping Systems.In 1995, when the company in Traisen, Austria was renamed to Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH, the company history went full circle with the year of foundation of 1833. Production was moved from two other locations in Europe, and concentrated in Traisen. Since then, this factory is the Centre of Excellence for malleable cast iron fittings within Georg Fischer.Altough state of the art manufacturing methods are used today and product features have been refined, the concept of threaded fittings have been remaining the same since 1864, which demonstrates the quality and sustainability provided by the innovation of the pioneer Georg Fischer II. Today more than 52 million pipe fittings in malleable cast

The Plant of Georg Fischer fittings GmbH in Traisen today

iron are produced at the site. Thus Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH, Traisen is the market leader in Western Europe, with the high-quality product “Made in Austria”.Since the 1980s, the compression fitting PRIMOFIT is also offered, and is produced exclusively in Traisen since 2004. This product today is represented in every good wholesale range, and as a problem-solver offers clients solutions for repairs, equipment additions, material transitions and much more. We owe our success to the loyalty of our customers. A large number of our customers have similar traditions and fortunately also a passion for long-term partnerships, which lies very close to our heart. So the new corporate slogan “All about you!” which is directly addressing our customers, is very accommodating to the self-image of our traditional, and at the same time new Georg Fischer site in Traisen.

The factory premises in Traisen in 1880

The first fittings brochure dating back to 1865

Georg Fischer II was born on 15.12.1834 in Hainfeld, Austria, the son of Georg Fischer I. Between 1841 and 1850 Georg Fischer II attended school in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and during his time with his grandfather, Johann Conrad Fischer, he learned the basics of the manufacture of steel castings and cast steel, forging and processing to filings.

Since 1833 his father Georg Fischer I is the owner of a plant for cast steel products and filings in Hainfeld, and acquires two hammer mills in the same year, one of them in Traisen, Austria. In 1838, his brother, Berthold Fischer, joins the company in Traisen.

Timeline of the Plant at Traisen

Historical team photo - fitting production Schaffhausen