Fixing fasteners
Over the last five decades, the company has become the world market leader in fixing fasteners engineering - and in many places the synonym for fixings in general.The scene is Marsa Alam, south of Quseir at the Red Sea. A tourist tries to explain to a local jeweller what "plugging" means. Wallplugs? fixing fasteners? The jeweller is at a loss with these words. So the German gets out a pen and begins to draw ... and the Egyptian's face lights up suddenly: "Aha, fischer!" Fischer fixing fasteners supplies "safe and economical fixings and connection for the building sector world-wide", it says in fischer's corporate principles, and Klaus Fischer explains in more detail: "We see ourselves as problem solvers and offer a wide-ranging product assortment of steel, plastic and resin fixing fasteners." fischer develops and manufactures its own products in all three areas, setting new standards all the time. For instance recently with the fischer SXS, the world's first plastic plug with general construction approval for use in cracked concrete. Other milestones in modern fixing fasteners engineering include the legendary S-Plug, the Zykon undercut system, the resin anchor system, or the first anchor for fixing dynamic loads. Another quantum leap was made by fischer in the facade sector, where the undercut system for fixing fasteners natural stone, ceramics and fibre cement boards was transposed and applied to fixing glass and photovoltaic modules. The company safeguards its leading position through its active and international industrial property rights policy, with fischer being the company owning most European Technical Approvals (ETA) - far ahead of the field. "Achieving optimum benefit for our customers - that's the thinking behind our actions", says Klaus Fischer. And this is why fischer has more to offer than just a comprehensive product range. The company also shares its extensive knowledge in fixing technology with others - for instance by way of the Compufix design software, the Technical Manual, or its competent office and field staff consulting service operating both on the national and the international level.
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