Customised routing systems made by Forster

Issue 1|2009
4 Forster advertising
products
aktuell
The magazine for customers, staff and friends of the Forster Group
Customised routing
systems made
by Forster ...
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8 Car park signs
10 Signage for the
Steyr hospital
14 A new home
for old papers
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THE EXECUTIVE SIDE
Dear Friend,
Dear Staff Member,
Information and communication are pivotal to our knowledge society. The ability to rapidly communicate precise information without any loss of meaning is becoming an increasingly essential
factor for success.
Through its production of directional and information systems, Forster has been active in this
segment for many decades. We specialise in delivering not just traffic signs but also signage for
buildings, from simple door signs in office complexes to guidance systems in hospitals, airports
and international exhibition centres: Forster signs supply information, help users to get around and
advertise the presence of a business far and wide.
This issue of Forster Aktuell introduces the new routing system developed for Industriezentrum
NÖ-Süd, Austria’s biggest business park. Our Ecoplus provides an interesting concept that ensures
better orientation and helps people find their way around an area 280 hectares in size.
You will probably have noticed: After the makeover of our Forster Aktuell company magazine we
gave our homepage a facelift, and the result has been online since October 2008 – a signal by the
Forster Group to advertise a fresh new breeze in communications. Special attention was devoted
to its informative content, a balanced presentation of our voluminous range of products and on
ensuring user-friendly navigation. The new layout of our web site was further enhanced by several
new functions – have you already seen our references page?
For evidence that design need not take second place to content click on www.forster.at.
Have fun reading the latest news!
Christian Forster
Chief Executive Officer
OVERVIEW
GOOD NEWS
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ADVERTISING
Call of the mountain 4
Railjet signage 4
Dunlop fleet signage 5
Displays 5
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Getting there more quickly 6
Park & ride 8
SIGNS
Messe Hamburg 9
Operation signage at
Steyr Hospital 10
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
The regional approach 11
SHELVING SYSTEMS
Memory bank for the
Free State of Saxony 14
INSIDE NEWS
Congratulations! 16
Sports and leisure 18
NOISE BARRIERS
From idea to
implementation 12
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GOOD NEWS
WWW.FORSTER.AT
New web page
Communications are the lifeblood of customer relations. For this reason,
the companies of the Forster Group have designed a new look for their
online presence. Information is now available much faster and at a single glance. The emphasis is on a clear and consistent line – easy to follow and with informative illustrations that highlight the quality of our
products. The new Forster website is available in German and English;
and the subsidiaries are assigned separate pages where they present
themselves in their own language.
Better,
clearer,
faster:
Forster
in the
internet.
TRAFFIC AND DIRECTION SIGNS
Ò New catalogue of traffic signs
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Our new catalogue of traffic signs has been available since January 2009. The former supplement on “New sign formats stipulated by RVS 05.02.12” was integrated in the catalogue:
the new direction sign formats are listed below the signs in the currently applicable
format. The result is a highly practical working document that combines all designs and
sizes.
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Owner and publisher:
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Ú Editors:
Christian Forster,
Heinz Lumetsberger.
Ú Contributors:
Heide Maria Stütz,
Michaela Schütter,
Fritz Haselsteiner.
Ú Photos: Forster
archives, Foto Nutz,
Architektur &
Industriefotografie
Gottschalk,
Paterno Fotostudio,
ÖBB Pressefoto
Harald Eisenberger.
Ú Text: Egger&Lerch.
Ú Translation:
Gertrude Maurer.
Ú Printed by Gugler
GmbH.
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Trade shows in 2009
Companies of the Forster Group show
their products at the following trade shows
organised in the first half of 2009:
SISEG Ú (International Exhibition on Facilities
Management and Purchasing) in Paris, 31 March
to 2 April 2009
7th ASTRAD Symposium Ú (road maintenance,
equipment and winter service) in Wels,
22–23 April 2009
5th International Conference Traffic and Safety
in Road Tunnels Ú in Hamburg, 6–8 May 2009
98th German Library Day Ú in Erfurt,
2–5 June 2009
The Library Show Ú in Birmingham,
10–11 June 2009
Orgatec/Cologne: Forster presented novel products for
office and facilities management use.
Trade show review
BRAU Beviale 2008 Ú One of the main European trade
shows for the beverage industry was held in Nuremberg
on 12–14 November 2008. Forster found an excellent
platform to present its products and solutions to optimise
corporate advertising.
Orgatec 2008 Ú The Forster Group exhibited its shelving systems and signs at the world’s largest trade shows
for office and facility, held in Cologne on 21–25 October
2008. For mobile shelving, Forster presented its improved
electric drive which can be easily and cheaply retrofitted
even to existing shelving systems. Shelf panels decorated
with customised motifs put colour into grey offices.
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ADVERTISING
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING FOR TOURIST SPOTS
CALL OF THE MOUNTAIN
St. Anton am Arlberg wants to
pitch its summer attractions to its
winter guests. Forster Verkehrsund Werbetechnik produced the
large-sized panels and installed
them at the entry points to the
famous celeb ski resort.
Entry points into
St. Anton am
Arlberg are
marked by new
advertising signs.
“The cradle of alpine skiing … also
enticing in summer.”
Four winter and summer motifs
and two more subjects of the advert
campaign were produced by digital
printing. In addition to the print
job, Forster provided the structural
analysis, the full substructure and
the round poles, and it also installed the signs.
INFORMATION FOR YOUR RAIL JOURNEY
Railjet
Railjet trains are fitted with a hundred signs and pictograms each.
Forster supplied the signage for
the interior of the new comfortable
trains used by Austrian Railways.
Forster came up with seat number
and door signs for the ÖBB’s train
information system. Pictograms
indicating fire extinguishers,
emergency brakes and non-smoker
compartments were needed in
many different sizes. The film signs
were produced as two-layer screenprints. The customer’s own colour
“Railjet Blue” was obtained from a
special screenprint shade combined
with Iriodin pearl lustre pigments.
Depending on the size of the pigments, a range from satin to glitter
effects are possible. After printing,
a satin laminate was applied for
additional surface protection.
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ADVERTISING
TAILORED SOLUTIONS
FLEET SIGNAGE
Chirpy yellow
Displays
Universal Music Austria Ú has
opted for displays made by Forster
to sell its Ö3 Time Journey CDs.
Made of sheet steel, the display
looks like an overlarge loudspeaker
box that optimally sets off the
product in electrics superstores.
Beiersdorf AG Ú shows off its
Eucerin series of medicinal sun tan
lotions at selected pharmacies and
drugstores in all of Austria. The
printed displays made of metal,
plastic and acrylic glass were
produced by Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik.
Our branch operation in Salzburg
gave the Dunlop dealers’ fleet cars
their striking appearance.
Last summer, 14 brand-new Fiat
500 vehicles were officially handed
over to the Austrian Dunlop dealers. The ceremony took place on
location at the Denzel customer
centre in Salzburg where the small
cars were arranged in a neat row –
all of them fitted with the distinct
Dunlop design: a chirpy yellow
with an enormous tyre print. The
classical Italian car will serve Dunlop dealers for the next three years.
The signage of the impish fleet was
achieved by Scotchcal film in black
and silver; the dealer logos were
made by digital printing.
Our Salzburg office handled production and application of the creative
outfit.
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This distinctive CD rack beguiles
music lovers.
Custom-made displays for
top-quality products.
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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Drive by colours: how to
make it easy to get around
the IZ NÖ-Süd.
FOLLOW THE COLOUR
Getting there
more quickly
The IZ NÖ-Süd industrial park
occupies a site the size of a small
town. To help people find their
way around more easily, a highly
noticeable routing system has been
installed.
Helmut Miernicki,
ecoplus managing
director, taking
pleasure in the new
guidance system.
Since its inception in the 1960s, the
IZ NÖ-Süd to the south of Vienna
has grown into one of Central
Europe’s biggest industrial parks.
Meanwhile, some 300 businesses
employing altogether 11,000
staff have settled on an area of
280 hectares. People trying to get
somewhere on a space of this size
are prone to losing their way and
therefore require a guidance system.
Ecoplus, the economic management
agency of the Lower Austrian Government which is in charge of the
industrial park, developed a concept
jointly with Zieser Architects which
is based on a straightforward nonlinguistic routing system based on
colours. Visitors only need to know
the number of the building occupied
by their destination company to be
guided there through not more than
two colour-coded routes. “The new
routing system will allow customers, suppliers and all other visitors
unfamiliar with the terrain to get
to their destination much faster,”
promises Helmut Miernicki, managing director of ecoplus.
Û Orientation
• Signposts at the two main entry points to the industrial parks
announce the guidance system
to all comers.
• Panels are installed at the car bays
and along the main access roads, which list all buildings and the associated colour routing
codes.
• The route is indicated by colour signs. Buildings on side roads are signalled at the branch-off point. Each entry to a building is
marked by a panel carrying its number.
Structure Ú Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik was put in charge of
all the signage for the colour coding
system. For the signs, a 3M Diamond
Grade film of type 3, optimised
specifically for digital printing,
was used for the retroreflecting
base film, combined with a laminated Scotch-cal film. This laminate
produces a clear and clean digital
imprint with 3M inks. The imprinted
film was then covered with a transparent high-performance protective laminate as an additional UV
screen.
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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Take the coloured route to get from the
A2 junction to your destination.
NEW A2 JUNCTION
Straight line approach
Austria’s biggest industrial
park, IZ NÖ-Süd, is now accessed
through a direct exit from the
Southern Motorway. The new
junction is marked with Forster
signs.
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It took less than a year for the Austrian motorway operator ASFINAG
to complete the challenging exit
to the IZ NÖ-Süd. This additional
junction adds to road safety and
relieves the Wiener Neudorf exit by
absorbing a large part of the trucks
share of the traffic. At its opening
on 28 November 2008, Governor Dr.
Erwin Pröll and his deputy Ernest
Gabmann lauded the new infrastructure as an enormous improvement for the region. By getting
its own motorway exit, IZ NÖ-Süd
has further added to its attractiveness. It eases access to the ecoplus
industrial park and facilitates commuting for thousands of the park’s
employees.
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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
CAR PARK SIGNS
Park & ride
Park and ride facilities are a good
place to park your car and switch
to the public transport system:
brightly lit parking storeys with
clear and logical signs to help
drivers abstain from driving into
the city.
A commission for the signage of
a multi-storey car park includes
marking parking decks in line with
the colour code system, clearly
identifying exits, flagging disabled
parking areas, labelling access and
escape routes, fitting information
signs for cash desks and indicating other facilities. All this was
handled by Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik for the new park &
ride facility at the western entrance
to Vienna. The signs were either
mounted directly to the concrete
walls or suspended from the ceiling. Signs designed to be fitted on
round columns were rolled to size
already at the works.
Lucid arrangement Ú Colours help
users to find their way and relocate
their car. Accordingly, each level is
assigned its own colour which is
then used throughout the guidance
system. Forster signs for car parks
fully comply with all Traffic Code
regulations.
Vienna, Linz, Milan, Rome Ú It is
not just the system for the P&R car
park at Vienna-Hütteldorf which
originates at Waidhofen/Ybbs:
commissioned by the car park
operator Best in Parking, Forster has
also produced the signage for the
new underground car parks at the
Vienna Schwarzenbergplatz and at
the Linz Promenade – and even for
two car parks in Milan and Rome
respectively.
Park & ride to combat congestion
& stress Ú Urban zones are awash
in cars; especially during the rush
hours driving takes a terrible toll in
terms of time and nerves wasted.
P&R car parks help combat the root
cause. The concept combines the
benefits of private and public transport. Commuters and city visitors
drive their own car from their home
to the P&R car park where they
leave their vehicle without having
to bother about scarce city parking. The underground quickly takes
them to their inner city destination
and back – a system that is not just
more economical but also more environmentally friendly as it reduces
CO2 emissions.
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SIGNS
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MESSE HAMBURG: A SPECIAL-SIZE DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM
White on grey
How to help exhibitors and suppliers get around the fairground:
Colberg & Forster furnished Messe
Hamburg with a new directional
system.
Altogether eleven halls were furnished with wall-fitted and ceilingsuspended signs, posts, info screens,
rotating and flag-type signs, as
well as an outdoor advertising unit
and a range of specially designed
signs, all developed by Wangler &
Abele, a design office in Munich.
The systems are based on welded
aluminium frames and panels,
powder-coated in RAL 7021 greyblack. The lettering is mostly in
the form of white adhesive letters,
occasionally digitally printed. Size
characterised not just the project as
such: some of the signs were so big
that their production machines had
to be refitted. The Forster tool shop
upgraded the bevel machine to accommodate outsize formats, so that
signs of a length of more than 5 m
could be produced without joints.
It took an extremely precise planning and handling schedule to
install the system without disturbing normal operations. The maps
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and guideposts were continually
adjusted to reflect newly finished
halls. Our successful cooperation
with Messe Hamburg was confirmed even before the project was
finished in January 2009 – through
the awarding of new contracts by
ARGE Neue Messe.
White film on a grey base: the guidance system
by Colberg & Forster furnishes clear and distinct
information (left).
Visitors are welcomed by deceptively simplelooking and prominently placed posts (right).
The combination of
digital print and builtin variable message
signs produced appealing solutions.
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SIGNS
Lucid signs help visitors and patients to
find their way around
the complexity of
Steyr Hospital.
ORIENTATION MADE EASY
OPERATION SIGNAGE
At Steyr Hospital a well-designed system guides patients and visitors through
a maze of wards. It was supplied and installed by Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik.
Complex structures Ú In the 90
years since it was first built, the
hospital at Steyr has been constantly extended and renovated on
an ongoing basis. In recent years,
the hospital was virtually one large
building site. But now it is a nice
modern complex, to which several
new buildings, wards and institutes
have been added. Considering the
sheer size of the complex, a comprehensive and efficient guidance system is not just helpful but essential.
Subterranean passages link the
buildings, and where they meet
signposts of the Combiflex CF 10
type point people in the right
direction. Orientation in the new
buildings is provided by extra-flat
illuminated signs together with
signs of the Combiflex CF 10 system
and aluminium signs, digitally
imprinted. White and turquoise letters on a blue ground were chosen
by experts as this combination of
colours is easy to see and read.
Guiding lights Ú Outdoors,
passers-by are shown the way
by internally lit monument signs
and illuminated signposts of the
Combiflex CF 40 series, with signs
of the Combiflex CF 10 type fitted to
them. Their panels can be quickly
exchanged so they can take any
future route changes in their stride.
The guidance system is rounded
off by signs at the main entrance
and the car park. In addition to the
standard traffic signs, drivers looking to park their car are helped by
“vacant/full” signs in LED design.
Through its installation of the
guide system, Forster accompanied
the latest construction phase at the
Steyr Hospital from the opening
of its psychiatric and outpatient
clinics in April 2005 to the opening of its 3rd intensive care unit in
January 2009.
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CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER CARE IN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN AUSTRIA
Ernst Buchriegler,
our man for
the west, with
decades of
experience to
assist him.
The regional approach
For our customers Forster has
set up competent contacts in all
Austrian states. Our regional sales
managers for northern and eastern Austria were presented in the
last issue of Forster Aktuell. This
time we introduce our customer
relations specialists for Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Salzburg, Carinthia
and Styria.
Ernst Buchriegler, our regional
sales manager for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, is currently celebrating his
30th year with Forster. For him, the
key factors for success are reliability, punctuality and – first and
foremost – “the high satisfaction to
be obtained from contacts with our
customers”. An adopted Tyrolean
since he married one in 1983, he
runs a hobby football club in Innsbruck. Among his other passions
are skiing, hiking in the mountains,
cooking – and Greece.
Emmerich Stangl gathered field
experience in Upper Austria before
taking over, in 1998, the Salzburg
sales territory and becoming head
of the Salzburg office. He is attracted by the opportunity to meet
people and the challenge to develop creative, individual solutions
tailored to each customer. As the
Salzburg-based contact for traffic
engineering, advertising and sign
products, Emmerich Stangl and his
team typically produce large parts
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of their contracts directly in Salzburg. In his spare time he is fond of
playing a round of golf.
Michael Mairoll was in charge
of traffic engineering and signs
production in Salzburg from 1997,
before he changed to the sales side.
Since 2004, he has been assisting
Emmerich Stangl with his projects
and field work in the City of Salzburg, Flachgau and Tennengau.
Recently he added the region along
the Inn and Southern Bavaria to his
sales territory. “What I love about
my job is the opportunity to work
and plan autonomously,” comments he. An enthusiastic football
player, he loves spending his leisure
time with his two sons or puts in
some sports by way of mountain
biking and running.
Roland Almer became a member
of the Forster team in August 2003.
After starting out by selling office
signage he changed to the field
service and undertook the Styrian
region. In 2007 he became regional
sales manager and added Carinthia
to his territory. Apart from in-depth
product knowledge, Roland Almer is
convinced that “a passionate preference for customer contacts” is the
key prerequisite for working in the
sales force. His leisure time is spent
on mountain biking, skiing and,
increasingly, ski tours.
Emmerich Stangl,
head of our
Salzburg Office.
Michael Mairoll,
meeting a highly
diverse challenge in
the Salzburg region.
Roland Almer,
caring for Forster
customers in
Carinthia and Styria.
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NOISE BARRIERS
PRODUCT INNOVATION
Noise screens from aluminium and timber
The art of turning ideas into
practical reality – innovative noise
barriers made of a combination of
aluminium and wood.
The noise screen panels
are designed to be highly
absorbent on one side
(aluminium) with a slotted absorbent back or
a continuous reflecting
back made of boilerpressure impregnated
or thermally treated pine
wood.
A2 Wernberg and
Zauchen
Ú The noise barrier set up
along the A2 motorway near
Villach-Wernberg
and Zauchen employs the
novel aluminium/wood
panels made by Forster.
Bridge structures made
of combined aluminium/
glass panels contribute
the final element to noise
screening along this
motorway section in
Carinthia.
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NOISE BARRIERS
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Noticeable in design, colouring and choice
of materials: in 2008, Forster Metallbau
GmbH added several interesting projects
to its roll-call of noise barriers.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
Cantering along the A4
Coloured glass/metal panels
inscribed “Freudenau” and “Prater”
to indicate the Vienna horse race
course lighten up the noise barrier
made of highly absorbent aluminium panels. It is decorated with
a “movie sequence of galloping
horse riders,” a flag of Vienna and
a “vienna” logo, all made of aluminium. The project was governed
by short delivery and installation
periods and the simultaneous
work of several contractors on a
confined site, which called for
perfect coordination in order not
to default on the deadline.
NOISE BARRIER FOR THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Quieter on
Via Moravica
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Forster recently delivered noise
barriers for fitting along a motorway in the Czech Republic.
Aluminium panels with highly
absorbent properties on both sides
were installed at the D47 between
Lipnik and Belotin. Using the digital printing technique, the panels
were inscribed with signage indicating “Have a good journey” and
“Towards Brno”.
Designers once again made
good use of colour highlights
and the combination of aluminium and glass.
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SHELVING SYSTEMS
SHELVING MADE BY FORSTER ADDS COLOUR TO THE DRESDEN MAIN STATE ARCHIVE
Memory bank for the Free
State of Saxony
To ensure that archived treasures
are preserved, magazines need to
be air conditioned and fitted with
the latest technology.
Arbitec-Forster shipped mobile
FOREG 2000 shelving to Dresden
to supply the Free State’s new
Main State Archive.
The Dresden archive documents a
thousand years of Saxon, German
and European history. It is charged
with conserving this cultural heritage, supplementing and making
it accessible to legislators, government and administrative officers,
scientists, researchers, interested
citizens and the general public.
Miles of files Ú Next to the listed
archival building, a new magazine
was built in 2006–08, made of reinforced concrete and using passive
solar technology. The clearly structured compact building consists
of nine storeys: three magazines
are below ground, five are above
ground, and the administrative and
engineering facilities are accommodated on the ground floor. The
ceilings were specially reinforced
to hold the enormous weight of the
A new home for old papers:
it needs a sophisticated
system to store and retrieve
things of importance.
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archive – consisting, i.a., of 32 km
of shelves for files – and the rails
to move the mobile shelving were
similarly calculated to comply with
the structural requirements.
The racks are fitted with shelves
and a retractable table (of a width
of up to 1300 mm and a depth of
900 mm) for each aisle. To achieve
better ventilation of the archived
stock, most of the racks were
installed without end panels. The
exception is the shelving for books
and for the seal collection, which
were provided with end panels. An
interesting aspect is the colouring of the shelves: each storey
was given its own colour scheme.
The four-digit base numbers were
placed on the face panel of each
bay already at Waidhofen; each bay
was assigned its own bay number.
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Extras for drawings and seals Ú
The need to archive drawings was
already considered during the planning phase. Accordingly, the racks
on the lowest basement level were
given flat shelves of a height of 20
mm, arranged with a clearance
of 60 mm. Some special stationary racks were fitted with draw
shelves to store seals and tablets.
For the collection of seals, the draw
shelves were furnished with plastic
trays fitted with additional strips
for variable 20 mm spacing. These
trays hold the 750 seals individually
to avoid contact corrosion.
The stationary racks are provided
with additional vibration absorbers
to allow shock-free arraying of the
racks.
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INSIDE NEWS
Congratulations!
Û WEDDINGS
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
Erich Hiesberger, Christian
Almberger, Alexandra Kos-Forstenlechner (née Kos), Stefan Cerny, Andrea Kleindessner (née Hofmacher),
Maria Rigler (née Pichler)
St. Peter/Au:
Engin Güclü
Salzburg Sales Office:
Michael Mairoll
Û BIRTHS
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
Son Lukas for Josef and Andrea
Grabner
Daughter Eva for Josef Pitner
Daughter Leona for Merita and
Wolfgang Dobersberger
Son Maximilian for Sabine Aigner
Son Leon for Minka and Valbon
Tafallari
Daughter Jennifer for Monika
Gaßner
Daughter Anna for Christa Stockinger
Daughter Lejla for Edin Omerbasic
St. Peter/Au:
Son Gökan for Sefer Sabanci
Daughter Anika for Manuela and
Erwin Steinbauer
Son Peter for Erika Lenauer
Son Michael for Susanne Schönegger and Thomas Domani
Salzburg Sales Office:
Son Julian for Michael Mairoll
Û VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL
Julia Buder (industrial merchant)
and Maria Stockinger (industrial
merchant) graduated from the first
form; Alexandra Aigner (industrial
merchant) and Tanja Kaltenbrunner
(industrial merchant) graduated
from the second form, each with
honours.
Julian Etzlstorfer (technical draughtsman) graduated from the first form,
and Haris Basic (screen printer)
graduated from the fourth form,
both with good success.
Simon Brunthaler (industrial production engineer) graduated from the
third form, and Patrick Freudenschuß
(industrial production engineer)
graduated from the fourth form,
both with honours.
Anna-Elisabeth Forster (screen printer) and Marco Marijanovic (screen
printer) graduated from the second
form, and Michaela Merkinger
(screen printer) graduated from the
fourth form, each with honours.
Michaela Merkinger was also lauded
for special merit.
Sabrina Matzenberger (industrial
merchant) passed the apprenticeship completion examination with
good success.
Status as of
February 2009
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INSIDE NEWS
Û ANNIVERSARIES
20 YEARS
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
15 YEARS
35 YEARS
Michael Hochpöchler
30 YEARS
Josef Sattler
Walter Streicher
25 YEARS
Barbara Hochbichler
Herwig Fischer
Franz Schachinger
Thomas Freudenschuß
20 YEARS
Walter Bergmann
Klaus Sonnleithner
Günther Plank
Sabine Felbauer
Manuela Ortner
Birgit Forster
Günther Bachbauer
Johann Rettensteiner
Günther Schink
Eva Nussbaumer
Claudia Biber
15 YEARS
Franz Desch
Hans-Peter Prüller
Walter Trawetzky
Kurt Großbichler
Harald Freudenschuß
Brigitte Fleischanderl
Christoph Kalinski
Admira Mandzuka
Sylvia Hirner
Leopold Gröbl
Franz Haberfehlner
10 YEARS
Silvia Killinger
Elisabeth Hirner
Jürgen Florian
Alois Farfeleder
Walter Schmitsberger
Harald Kaluza
Sevim Cagiran
Markus Aichinger
Angela Bogar
Martin Präuer
Bernhard Putz
Günther Wagner
St. Peter/Au:
25 YEARS
Ludwig Schuller
Erich Wirrer
Brigitte Heher
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Franz Ritt
Manfred Stöger
Christian Maderthaner
Theresia Hirtenlehner
Johannes Tatzreiter
Petru Cristea
Erika Punzhuber
Stefanie Schäffer
Susanne Gutmandelberger
Renate Nietsch
10 YEARS
Ida Schuller
Elfriede Haneder
Gülsen Günes
Wolfgang Reitbauer
Carmen Aigner
Gerda Wiesinger
Silke Kaltenböck
Û RETIREMENTS
With Forster for 35 years
Michael Hochpöchler has been working for the company
since 1973. He started out as a lorry driver from our former
domicile at Hammergasse and eight years later changed
to the shipping department. In 1985, Michael Hochpöchler
became manager of the department and has since been responsible for scheduling the delivery tours, preparing goods
for shipment from the Waidhofen plant and for managing
the lorry fleet.
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
Hannelore Linbacher
Heidemarie Marquardt
Arbitec-Forster:
Rüdiger Wacker
STAFF HONOURS
In December 2008, a party was held to honour all staff members celebrating a long anniversary of membership in the Forster family.
Christian Forster expressed his gratitude and
appreciation of their many years of work
and loyalty for the company. In his speech he
expressed his enthusiasm for the great commitment and excellent cooperation within
the company.
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Sports and leisure
2008 Cycling Day
The route chosen last autumn for
the cycling day organised by the
Forster Leisure Club offered great
variety.
Taking off from St. Peter in der Au,
cyclists headed towards the Treffling valley, through Willerstorf/
Krenstetten and then turned back
to St. Peter, ending the day with
cider at the cosy tavern of Schwingenschlögel.
Participants once again enjoyed the athletic and socialising merits
of the cycling tour organised by the Forster Leisure Club.
Winners of the 2009 Forster Ski Race
2009 Forster Ski Race
Superb weather conditions and
radiant winners marked the ski
and snowboard company championships held at Forsteralm on
24 January.
Manuela Hüttenbrenner and Thomas Spacil, two of the
winners of the 2009 Forster Ski Race, showing off their
medals. From left to right: Raimund Hüttenbrenner,
Doris Wöginger, Thomas Spacil, Manuela Hüttenbrenner,
Hans-Peter Prüller, Fritz Auer.
The fluent and demanding giant
slalom made for an exciting race for
all categories.
The close race for the champion’s
title was decided by Thomas Spacil
who made the best time of the day
and came in first before Manfred
Hofmacher and Raimund Hüttenbrenner.
The women’s category was won
by Manuela Hüttenbrenner, Gundi
Härtinger and Daniela Kern, while
Heidrun Furtner and Jonathan Ritt
took first place each on their snowboards.
The staff of Forsteralm Liftgesellschaft also collected triumphs:
Andreas Forster carried the day
against Leopold Spreitzer and Johannes Mayer sen. Anna Kerschbaumer,
Birgit Spreitzer and Monika Fuchsluger secured the first three places
in the women’s category. In the age
categories IV and V, retirees August
Schnabler and Johann Gill came out
on top.
The Forster ski competitions drew
plenty of enthusiastic kids and
youths who performed remarkably
well. At the winners’ ceremony,
organiser Fritz Auer expressed his
thanks to the many people who
had contributed to the success of
the event.
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Best company ski team
in Lower Austria
For 2009 Forster held on to its
title of Lower Austrian Company
Champion in the men’s category.
On 1 February, 143 racers assembled
at Annaberg for the 2009 company
championship. Among individual
racers, Raimund Hüttenbrenner
was the fastest in age category II
and Thomas Spacil came in second
in the age category I. Jointly with
Manfred Kalkhofer and Josef
Großauer, the two once again secured the Lower Austrian Company
Champion’s title for the Forster
ski team. The 37th State Company
Championship was organised by
the Lower Austrian Sports Association and the Lower Austrian
Company Sports Association.
Herta Mikesch, President of the Lower Austrian Sports Association, congratulates the
winning Forster ski team: From right to left: Josef Großauer, Raimund Hüttenbrenner,
Manfred Kalkhofer, Thomas Spacil, Fritz Auer, Heribert Pfeffer, Helmut Broscha.
Forster on the winners’
rostrum
Last year’s number one at the
Austrian Company Ski Championship, Forster this time managed
an excellent third place.
February 21, 2009: The Forster ski
team arrived at Arnoldstein to defend its title at the federal company
ski championship. After excellent
runs by Raimund Hüttenbrenner
August Schnabler and Johann Gill, our
most active retirees, are annual fixtures at
the Forster Race (top left).
Jubilation among the young (bottom left).
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(5th place) and Manfred Hofmacher
(3rd place), Thomas Spacil unfortunately came a cropper. Manfred
Kalkhofer also had problems with
the difficult giant slalom course
that was set with some challenging
breaks. Yet in spite of such troubles,
Forster still managed to come in
third in the team score of category
I. The day was carried by Infineon
from Villach.
Forster’s participants at the Federal Championship
at Arnoldstein: Fritz Auer, Raimund Hüttenbrenner,
Manfred Kalkhofer, Thomas Spacil and Manfred
Hofmacher (from left to right).
Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik GmbH
Weyrer Strasse 135
A-3340 Waidhofen/Ybbs
Telephone + 43 74 42/501-0
Telefax + 43 74 42/501-200
e-mail [email protected]
www.forster.at
Forster Metallbau
Gesellschaft m. b. H.
Weyrer Strasse 135
A-3340 Waidhofen/Ybbs
Telephone + 43 74 42/501-0
Telefax + 43 74 42/501-480
e-mail [email protected]
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