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Issue 1|2015
4 Advertising
allrounder
9 Noise barrier
for privacy
aktuell
The magazine for customers, staff and friends of the Forster Group
A routing
system
to boost
tourism ...
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10 Information signs
for Vienna’ Main
Railway Station
14 Production at
clean-room
conditions
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UP-FRONT NEWS
Dear Friends,
Dear Staff Members,
In this issue of Forster Aktuell we show you a totally satisfactory solution to
a storage problem: the new City Archives of Augsburg. Look inside to find out
how to produce a third more space from a shelving system that extends over
two floors. Working at clean-room conditions is getting an absolute must in
industrial screen printing: an ever greater number of Forster products are made
under such conditions. The prerequisites and measures taken to achieve this
situation are described on pp 14-15.
At the start of May we began to change over to electronic billing, a change
necessitated on economic, ecological and organisational grounds. Naturally,
our customers are asked to convert solely on a voluntary basis. We are convinced that e-billing will benefit you as well: it reduces waste and cuts down
on the time needed compared to printed invoices. I wish to thank you for
supporting this project.
One of the best seasons of the year has just started and there are innumerable ways to enjoy the days of summer. So if you have your holiday still before
you I wish you a wonderful, relaxing time and a good and safe journey there
and back.
Enjoy reading the latest news!
Yours,
Christian Forster
Managing Director of Forster Holding GmbH
OVERVIEW
GOOD NEWS
News from and about Forster 3
ADVERTISING SYSTEMS
Allrounder for advertising 4-5
POS displays whet the
appetite for more 5
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Guidance systems made
of wood and aluminium 6
Flexganty on Gantrybase:
safety from flexibility 7
NOISE BARRIERS
SHELVING SYSTEMS
New noise barrier for
S6 neighbours 8
Improving quality of life
by noise screens 9
The new Augsburg
City Archives 12-13
SIGNS
Info posts for Austria’s
largest train station 10
Pointing the way
to education 11
INDUSTRIAL SCREEN PRINTING
Production at clean-room
conditions 14-15
INSIDE NEWS
Staff news 16
Sports and leisure 17-19
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GOOD NEWS
CHANGEOVER TO ELECTRONIC BILLING
E-Billing
For economic, ecological and organisational reasons, Forster Verkehrs- und Werbetechnik
GmbH has converted its invoicing system to electronic billing. We are confident that this
changeover will also benefit our customers. This method ensures that the invoice will be
reliably and transparently sent directly to its proper addressee.
Naturally it is not for us to decide how our customers want to get invoices from us, so we
will present you with an e-bill only after you have given us your consent.
Trade show preview
This year’s KOMMUNALMESSE, the trade fair for local governments, will have as its motto “Creating living spaces – shaping
the future”. Local authorities have a say in shaping the living space of their citizens and in this way affect the quality of their
lives. A major factor is safety on Austrian roads. For decades Forster has given priority to developing and making products
to improve road safety, and thanks to its efforts it has become a strong partner for local governments and their road maintenance departments.
When: 9 – 11 September 2015
Where: Vienna Exhibition Centre,
Messeplatz 1, 1021 Vienna, Austria
Hall/Stand: Hall C, 239, 246
The latest innovations and trends are found at the SPS IPC Drives, Europe’s leading specialist fair for electric automation. Find
us at our stand to hear about current developments in industrial screen printing. We present membrane keypads, decorative
and front panel films, keyboard films on pc boards, printed electronics, punched parts and insulation films, front and supporting plates, sheets and casings.
When: 24 – 26 November 2015
Where: Nuremberg Exhibition Centre,
Karl-Schönleben-Str.,
Messeplatz 1, 70471 Nuremberg, Germany
Hall/Stand: 8-624
Trade show review
Owner and publisher:
Forster Verkehrs- und
Werbetechnik GmbH.
Ú Editor:
Heinz Lumetsberger
Ú Contributors:
Silvia Steiner,
Michaela Schütter,
Fritz Haselsteiner,
Dominik Reichartzeder
Ú Photos: Forster
archives, Paterno
Fotostudio, Austrian
Airlines - Scheuer,
Österreichische
Post AG,
Stadtarchiv Augsburg,
NÖN - Ingrid Vogl
Ú Printed by:
Gugler GmbH
Ú Translation:
Gertrude Maurer
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Officials from state and local governments as well as road maintenance
staff have made it a habit to attend the ASTRAD & austroKOMMUNAL
organised every two years. We always look forward to the many interesting exchanges with visitors. And as always our traffic engineering
products were much sought after. This year’s highlights: our bend
point tube (BPT) adapter fitted with a predetermined kink point in
tubular uprights and the fracture-proof road traffic safety mirror.
The REGAL Branchentreff forum, comprising a symposium, trade fair,
supermarket news platform and expert talks on practical applications,
operates as a highly useful exchange for everybody interested in shelving. Forster used its info stand to present individual solutions in a wide range of formats and designs, all
excellently suited to showcase the POS through the use of displays, illuminated advertising, floor films and
lenticular prints.
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ADVERTISING SYSTEMS
ALLROUNDER FOR ADVERTISING
Three cheers for the film
Sheet film has loads of uses in advertising. No matter what requirements need to be met there is a suitable material
that has just the looked-for properties. Whether used in the long or short term, indoors or outside – the allrounder
can deliver.
Sheet film can be easily applied to almost every base material. Typically you don’t even see that a film has been
used. And the material is getting ever “greener”: Forster has been changing over to PVC-free film and is using
solvent-free ink for digital printing. And film has another greatly appreciated merit: if you need to change the
motif it can be done in a flash: simply cover the space with a new film.
The projects shown below offer a glimpse of the bandwidth of options where film is a good choice.
Advertising lift-off
All of Austria was in a fever for the final of the 60th Song Contest.
Austrian Airlines, the official airline of the 2015 contest, used its fleet
of aircraft as ambassadors for the grand event.
At 11,920 metres up in the air,
the maximum cruising altitude
of the Airbus A 320 that served
as “illustrated ambassador”, the
imprinted film was exposed to
extreme conditions. Forster’s long
experience in printing special
film was thus one of the reasons
for getting the contract. The 3M
aircraft film applied and digitally
imprinted for this case is particularly suitable for attaching on level
and bent surfaces. It uses a special
technology that allows easy positioning during attachment. At a
temperature resistance of –60°C to
+65°C, the 3M aircraft film is optimised for use on passenger planes.
As a result, the film that advertised
the Song Contest easily held out
against the strain.
“There’s a lot of green in the yellow”
Forster recently attached the signage for a sustainability campaign to the
new electric cars of Österreichische Post AG.
The Austrian postal service already
boasts 862 environmentally friendly electric cars – the largest fleet of
electric vehicles in Austria.
Under the motto “There’s a lot of
green in the yellow”, the service
has 59 new electric cars cruising
through Austria. The 3M film used
is imprinted with a highly visible
green tree to emphasise the motto.
Putting the new signage on the
fleet vehicles involved more than
500 metres of film, digitally imprinted and attached.
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ADVERTISING SYSTEMS
Soaring high with
Forster advertising
panels
HOFER TRAVELS
POS displays whet the
appetite for more
Hofer Reisen puts its trust in the decades of experience assembled by Forster. Reflecting Hofer’s
motto “I know what I want”, all Hofer supermarkets
were fitted with the new display made by Forster.
The Paul Außerleitner jump at Bischofshofen
was fitted with advertising panels made by
Forster. Placed on the largest jump of the Four
Hills Tournament, they are exposed to extreme
weather conditions.
To ensure that the panels would keep their appealing appearance for as long as possible they
were coated with a specially laminated film that
guarantees a remarkably long life and weather
resistance. The panels are inscribed in several
languages and come in different formats to do
justice to the venue of the Twelfth-Day jump.
And it goes without saying that Forster undertook the job of installing them on site.
The brochure stand is an outstanding example of
how to combine appearance with usefulness. The side
designs can be replaced so that the display reflects the
season or latest destinies. Already from a distance, the
overall appearance helps whet customers’ appetites for
sun and fun.
The quick-exchange trays, available in several
veral
formats, and a specially shaped panel in
the form of a suitcase offer additional
flexibility, a bonus in terms of content
as much as ease of use for the sales stafff
who profit from a simple, rapid-exchange
e
system.
The RAL powder-coating of the display and
nd
the partial paint coat guarantee an appeararance that is particularly long-lived, of high quality
and perfectly aligned to the corporate design used
by Hofer Reisen.
New signage
Two pedestrian overpasses at Vienna Airport were
fitted with a new digitally imprinted 3M film coat.
Every year, 22.5m passengers pass underneath.
A surface of about 300 m² makes the new advertising space visible from afar. Forster attached
the film “in the dark of the night” in order to keep
the nuisance level at the international hub to
a minimum.
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The brochure stand advertising Hofer Reisen ensures maximum flexibility, as it offers alternating side designs as well
as trays in different formats.
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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
A combination of locally grown larch wood and aluminium is attuned to the
landscape and impresses by its high-quality appearance.
HARMONIOUS COMBINATION OF WOOD AND ALUMINIUM
Tourist guidance systems in
south-western Lower Austria
As a timely accompaniment to
Lower Austria’s 2015 Ötscherthemed exhibition, Göstling an
der Ybbs and Gaming/Lackenhof
were furnished with a new traffic
routing system. The two communities are strongly focused
on tourism (both rank among
the 30 Lower Austrian destinations with the highest number
of overnight stays), so that they
need to show off their best side
as soon as guests cross their
boundaries.
The new routing system does
just that. It impresses from afar
through its felicitous yet unusual combination of wood and
aluminium. Thanks to the timber
used the signs are in harmony
with the region and fully integrated in the landscape. The colour-
ful reflective film applied to an
aluminium panel draws attention
to the tourists’ next destinations.
Flexible system Ú But it isn’t just
the appearance that makes the
signs so successful. They are also
immensely practical: additions
are easy – simply remove a wood
panel and replace it by an aluminium info panel. The new panel
is quickly hooked in thanks to a
sophisticated grid pattern which
has no visible screws and allows
using the sign on both sides. The
wood panels are from regionally
grown larches, untreated, weatherproof and very hardy. Matched
with aluminium panels, they are
excellently suited to serve as a
routing system. Stability is provided by the stands which are made
of galvanised steel and further
enhance the appearance of the
design. The design, by im-plan-tat
Raumplanungs-GmbH & Co KG,
has another benign effect on the
community: it allows reducing
the overall number of local signs
and helps tourists get around
more easily.
Strengthening regional identity
Ú The use of one and the same
routing system for two communities helps sustain the local
development strategy in the
region. Different colour schemes
and the striking design of the
regional logo make sure that distinctions are maintained and
each community comes into its
own.
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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
FLEXGANTRY ON GANTRYBASE
Safety from flexibility
In an accident on the A10 motorway, the articulated sign bridge
averted the worst when a semitrailer demolished the concrete
central guide wall across a length
of 150 metres. The truck was a
total write-off but the driver remained unharmed.
The articulated A-support is
fitted to the sliding concrete
guide wall by foot joints. Pin
joints allow for twisting.
The spectacular crash occurred on
6 April 2015, a few minutes after 5
am on the Tauern Motorway (A10)
next to Golling/Salzburg. The load
on the truck had come unstuck,
causing the vehicle to skid and
crash into the concrete wall between the two lanes. The wall was
severely damaged for a length of
about 150 metres, but the gantry,
mounted on a concrete retention
system, survived the crash almost
unharmed.
How was that possible?
It was a Flexgantry design.
Little damage Ú This accident
serves to demonstrate the safety
and economic advantages of the
Flexgantry model. With no rigid
obstacles in the central reser-
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vation no humans were hurt
and the construction itself suffered only minimal damage.
Another crucial advantage was
that the motorway could be
immediately returned to normal
operation as the traffic control
system continued to work throughout this section of the A10.
Quick repair Ú Another difference
between standard road sign gantries and Flexgantries is in the scope
of repair works after an accident.
A traditional gantry would probably have required a new central
post, possibly also a new beam.
Flexgantry called for some minor
works only: replacing some of
the threaded assemblies, repairing the anti-corrosion paint at
the front A-post, and exchanging
the gantrybase joining element
due to chipped concrete.
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NOISE BARRIERS
Form follows function:
a varied design adds optical
appeal to the noise barrier.
2FOLD NOISE BARRIER
New noise barrier
for S6 neighbours
Some of the people living next
to the S6 still suffer seriously
from the noise impact. In order
to improve the situation as
quickly as possible, ASFINAG
has for several years been
installing noise protection
systems in the Mürz valley.
In early 2012, the agency responsible for financing motorways and
carriageways ASFINAG tendered
a contract for the design of the
noise barriers S6 to S36 in Lower
Austria and Styria. The winning
design was implemented along
some sections of the S6 already
in 2012 and 2013. Forster Metallbau
also won the contract to carry out
the innovative winning project, a
noise barrier developed by Viennese architects raum-werk-stadt,
for the next sections.
Kindberg barrier Ú Ever since
the new noise barriers have been
installed, suffering residents of
Kindberg can breathe more freely:
the unbearable traffic noise is a
thing of the past. The innovative
system, fitted along 700 metres
of the motorway, is an effective
day and night protection against
traffic noise.
The barrier has a colour scheme
matching its surroundings and
the 2Fold modular system allows
for interesting combinations of
aluminium and glass.
Leoben-Göss and Bruck barriers
Ú Already in the past year, Forster
set up noise barriers along both
lanes of the S6 between LeobenGöss and the eastern exit of Leoben.
As a result, noise-ridden residents
of Leoben-Göss experienced a
substantial improvement in their
well-being. Another step towards
protecting people against traffic
noise is now being taken at Bruck
where an effective noise barrier is
being installed for the neighbours.
Two folds Ú The 2Fold system
is basically made up of four steel
supports which are bent at two
places varying from post to post.
The four supports, which are furthermore twisted around their
longitudinal and cross axis, offer
72 combinations for the bays
inbetween them. Panels designed
in three shapes (rectangle, triangle and parallelogram) fill in the
bays.
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NOISE BARRIERS
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE
Your personal noise screen
Blessed peace in your own home
is becoming a veritable luxury.
Especially when your surrounding
changes over the years so much
that it requires a major effort to
protect yourself against intruding noise.
Quality of life and privacy: increasingly, these two valuable goods can
be preserved only by high-quality
noise barriers even in a private context. FONOCON® Urban noise
screens made by Forster are ideal
to protect your home against
noise from outside. Not only do
they keep away the noise but
they also offer a perfect shield
to maintain your privacy.
Flexible, aesthetic and long-lived
Ú Made of aluminium, the elements are slim and light, making
them easy to install on your own.
Flexible in its colour scheme and
positioning, the system is ideally
suited to obtain an appealing appearance that perfectly blends in
with its surrounding. Even transparent elements are available for
combination. Once installed, the
FONOCON® Urban noise screen
requires no maintenance and is
very long-lived. A house protected in this manner improves in
its value while retaining its locational advantage – altogether
an economically sound investment. So get yourself your own
oasis of quietness!
Street noise banned
from home: FONOCON®
Urban noise screens
with individually chosen
colour scheme.
Noise screens protect
your privacy and improve your quality of
life.
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SIGNS
VIENNA MAIN RAILWAY STATION
Info posts for Austria’s
largest train station
Austria’s most modern railway
station was officially opened on
10 October 2014. It has been planned for more than 1,100 trains
per day and 145,000 passengers
passing through it every day.
The Vienna Main Railway Station,
by far the most momentous project of the Austrian Railways ÖBB,
was launched on 10-11 October
2014. Itself finished, it is still surrounded by busy construction
sites. A new urban quarter is being built on the original site
which will build up 109 hectares.
Forster was involved in the largescale project through several
signage contracts.
High visibility from LEDs Ú The
illuminated posts of the ÖBB and
metropolitan railways are visible
from afar. The are made of fibreglass reinforced plastic and fitted
with energy-saving, long-lived
LEDs. Info posts were also used
outside the new station, to guide
passengers and provide them
with some initial information.
Similar posts and advertising pil-
lars then help along passengers at
the main entrances to the station.
The shopping mall at the station
was also fitted with illuminated
info posts to point visitors to the
more than 90 shops assembled in
the arcade.
ÖBB headquarters Ú Directly
adjacent to the new station,
ÖBB built its new headquarters.
Finished in the autumn of 2014,
it now houses 1,700 staff working in various departments of
the company. For their guidance,
Forster supplied its Combiflex
Meneo indoor routing system
which is renowned for its flexibility: signs can be made by
the customers themselves and
are easily exchanged. Users
can promptly respond to any
change and adapt the signage
to new staff members or new
room uses.
Well-illuminated
signs steer passengers through the
Vienna Main Station.
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SIGNS
More than 650 metres
of two-coloured
stripes were fitted
to keep people from
crashing into the
glass doors and
hurting themselves.
The stripes double as
an attractive design
element.
The rooms of the
ÖBB headquarters
use the flexible
Combiflex Meneo
indoor routing
system for their
signage.
Sonnwendviertel school campus
Ú Next to the new main station,
several newly built schools were
opened in the autumn of 2014.
Forster supplied and installed the
signage to give an artistic touch
to the new campus. The edged
aluminium signs are coated with
high-quality 3M film coloured by
Forster and produced exactly to
the architect’s vision.
BRG KREMS
Pointing the way to education
Over the past two years, the secondary
high school BRG Krems was given a
full-scale refurbishment that included
an extension of about 5,000 square
metres and a complete restructurisation of its layout. Forster Verkehrsund Werbetechnik provided the routing system.
Planners were very prickly in their
requirements for the routing system:
signs should be slim and their content
should be quick and easy to change.
Consequently, Forster was awarded the
contract for the signage in November
2014.
Combiflex Mero Ú Whether simple
door signs, small sign posts or fire
alarm posters –
Combiflex Mero has
matching signs that fit
to every room. With its
slim build and delicate
frame of anodised
aluminium, Combiflex
Mero captivates by its
laid-back design. The
non-glare acrylic glass
cover can be removed
from the top, allowing
an easy and quick
change of the label.
Signs come in various
sizes to increase the
system’s flexibility.
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Safety Ú Planners took into account the
new requirements of Austrian Standard
ÖNORM B1600 to be met by glass doors
and glass surfaces.
Moreover, warning, information and caution signs were installed throughout the
building, so that it complies with the European standard of ÖNORM EN ISO 7010
that lays down rules for safety colours
and safety signs.
No barriers Ú A tactile guidance system
on the forecourt gets everybody safely into
the newly refurbished lobby. The tactile
layout plan was also furnished by Forster.
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SHELVING SYSTEMS
THE NEW AUGSBURG CITY ARCHIVES
More space for the
"Memory of the City"
Maximum storage capacity typically is the foremost concern that
planners of archives have
in mind. Fortunately, FOREG
shelving systems work miracles
when it comes to storage space.
A mobile shelving
system, fitted with a
digitally imprinted end
panel, was installed in
the reading room.
Historic deeds of the Augsburg
City Archives date back to the 11th
century, making the institution
one of the foremost community
inventories of Germany and
Europe. It harbours an abundance
of historic treasures illustrating
the city’s administrative, cultural,
economic, social and everyday
life through the ages:
11,500 metres of files and official
records, 5,000 deeds, 40,000 historic maps and drawings,
350,000 photo negatives and
prints, 20,000 posters, films
and videos, collections of news-
papers, magazines, cuttings,
sound recordings and digital
media, 500 metres of index files
from the registrar’s office and a
specialised library comprising
35,000 volumes. The City Archives
serve as a central facility for the
city’s urban administration and
also keep files collected by clubs,
associations, families, guilds and
businesses.
From factory to archival location
Ú When the “Memory of the City”
was in need of a new home, the listed production and office buildings
of a defunct textile company were
converted from 2012 onwards. Offering altogether 4,450 square metres
of space, the premises now house
the historic records in an optimal
environment in magazines kept at
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SHELVING SYSTEMS
An intermediate landing
was fitted to accommodate the two-level
shelving system.
ted in line with the latest conservational and archival requirements.
A pioneering achievement was
the architecturally well-rounded
solution found for the magazine
rooms which, on their 3,200 square
metres of space, were furnished
with a double-decker mobile shelving system on a specially constructed steel platform. The result
is some 26 kilometres of shelving to
accommodate the valuable records.
A question of stability Ú Arbitec
Forster was awarded the contract
to supply and install the shelving
system in early 2013. Works on the
execution of the contract started
in June 2013. The two-level system
was constructed as a walk-on steel
platform with gratings, staircases
and railings. Before it could be put
in, a stress analysis had to be carried out with the client, engineer
and architect. The Forster engineers then implemented the specific requirements down to the last
detail. First they laid the rails for
the shelving system into the unfinished concrete floor, after which
the intermediate landing envisaged by the architect could be put in.
Installation proceeded section by
section from July 2013 to May 2014.
Well-structured archives Ú
Arbitec-Forster found the best
suited solution exactly tuned to
the specific requirements of
the records to be stored and the
locational situation. Contrary
to original plans, the construction
of a new intermediate landing
increased storage capacity by
about 35%. Fully fitted with the
requisite accessories, the inventories can now be properly stored
and will be ready for use in part
by the summer of 2015 and fully
from the summer of 2016.
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INDUSTRIAL SCREEN PRINTING
Membrane keypads and
front panels are produced
at clean-room conditions.
INDUSTRIAL SCREEN PRINTING
Pure quality
Membrane keypads and front
panels join man to machine. As
they become a pervasive feature
Forster produces them using
screen printing technology of
maximum precision at cleanroom conditions.
Working at clean-room conditions
is getting ever more important for
much industrial production. It is not
just semiconductors or medicinal
products that require a controlled
environment for their production,
but Forster needs to maintain
clean-room conditions for an increasing number of its own products. Quality requirements posed
by its customers have made it
necessary to invest heavily into industrial screen printing and create
clean-room conditions.
Clean-room category Ú Forster
is currently converting several
manufacturing processes, installing screen printing presses and
dryers in a separate part of its production hall. This section is dedicated to the production of multiple
printing processes that require
particularly clean air. Once the conversion works will be finished and
the clean-air facilities have been
fitted together with their control
systems, the production area will
comply with clean-room category 7
under DIN EN ISO 14644-1.
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INDUSTRIAL SCREEN PRINTING
Part of a casing made by
Forster in practical use.
Diversified production Ú Decorative and front film, membrane
keypads, sheet-steel and casing
sections – they have for many
years been part of the range of
products made by Forster. Depending on the use they are put to
they can be coated with a variety
of surfaces, materials and decorative paints and fitted to base plates
or mounting systems. Forster’s new
offer of production at clean-room
conditions has been introduced at
the bequest of customers.
Using state-of-the-art technology
and efficient processes, Forster is –
as always – a competent partner
for industrial screen printing.
Famous names in the automation
and electric industries trust in
Forster’s known quality and reliability.
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INSIDE NEWS
The latest news from
the Forster Group staff
Û RETIREMENTS
Û DEATHS
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
Klaus Scheuchel
Waidhofen/Ybbs:
Karl Haberfehlner
Alois Kerschbaumer
St. Peter/Au:
Christine Kirchweger
Renate Gruber
Karl Ossmann
Franz Ricker
Early in 2015, Klaus Scheuchel took his welldeserved retirement. Joining the company
in 1981 he worked as an expert adviser in the
field sales staff, serving our customers in the
north of Lower Austria for almost 35 years.
Finally enjoying more leisure time, Klaus
Scheuchel will be frequently found hiking in
the mountains. To usher him into his retirement, his colleagues organised a party.
The management wants to express
its gratitude and appreciation for
their long years of loyalty to the
company and extends its best
wishes for their new life phase!
Û ANNIVERSARIES
Arbitec-Forster
25 YEARS
Cornelia Kirschbaum, Bernd Haase
20 YEARS
Û OCCUPATIONAL
TRAINING
Matthias Riedler (metal fitter,
mechanical engineering module) completed the first form with
excellent success, and Tobias Schraml
(metal fitter, mechanical engineering module) completed the second
form with excellent success.
Tobias Beck (metal fitter, mechanical
engineering module) completed the
fourth form with excellent success
and passed the apprenticeship completion exam with good success.
Norbert Ziemer
The management wants to express to
all celebrants its gratitude and appreciation for their long years of loyalty
to the company and looks forward to
continuing our excellent cooperation.
Patrick Forstenlechner (printer, focus
on screen printing) completed the
second form with good success, and
Armin Duric (printer, focus on screen
printing) completed the first form
with good success.
Patricia Schreil (trainee industrial
manager) completed the first form
with good success, and Elisabeth
Groißmayr (trainee industrial manager) passed the traineeship completion exam with good success.
A party was organised to accompany
Klaus Scheuchel into his retirement.
Our congratulations on their excellent performance and our best wishes
for their further career!
Staff data as of:
06/2015
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Sports and leisure
Football
Forster in the finals
Already back in autumn, the Forster team made it into the fourth round of
the AKNÖ/ÖGB Company Football Cup of 2014/2015. After a dramatic penalty
shootout against
st SG Leyer & Graf, they gained the finals with a score of 5:4.
On 21 June, the team got worsted against OMV Gänserndorf (5:3) and
Gebauer & Griller
er (6:2). In both games, the team started out well
by taking the lead
ad at 1:0 but was unable to keep
up its performance
nce for the
full 90 minutes..
The finals were
won by PVA St.
Pölten.
AKNÖ President
Markus Wieser congratulates the
Forster team for its fourth place
in the Company Football Cup.
Waidhofen Town Run
Good runners, strong team
On 25 April 2015, the long-established 31st International
Sparkassen Town Run was held under a bright sun.
The crowd was in a festive mood and enthusiastically
cheered our team on to win the first,
eighth and ninth ranks at
the Fit@Work team trials.
Forster’s runners also did
excellently in the main race,
with four of them placing
among the first 40.
The effort paid off in excellent
rankings: participants in front of
the town fountain.
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Lower Austrian Company
Skiing Championship
Forster ski team wins vice-championship title
The 43rd State Company Skiing Championship was held
at the very best conditions on 7 February, organised by
WSV Puchenstuben. Following up on past successes (when
Forster quite frequently won the State Champion title),
the team this year managed the second-best result of the
day. The new Lower Austrian Company Skiing Champions
were the team of Ing. Viktor Gusel and, for the ladies, the
team of the Scheibbs Hospital.
Tobias Schraml (right) carried the day
for Forster in the youth category.
Family skiing party
Forster Skiing Championship of 2015
Conditions were perfect when this year’s
company alpine skiing and snowboarding
championships were held on the Forsteralm
on Saturday, 31 January 2015. The neck-andneck race for the champion’s title was won by
Thomas Spacil, who clocked up the day’s best
time and relegated Raimund Hüttenbrenner
and Manfred Kalkhofer to second and third
places. The ladies’ races were won by Dorli
Hofmacher (women’s best time of the day
before Regina Spacil), Daniela Dürauer, Maria
Grottenthaler and Katharina Kalteis. The
Forster race of 2015 was also enthusiastically
attended by a host of children and young
people.
Organiser Fritz Auer with
the two day’s best time
winners Dorli Hofmacher and Thomas Spacil.
Prices were awarded by
Doris Wöginger and
Raimund Hüttenbrenner
(left to right).
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WINGS FOR LIFE
WORLD RUN
„Compete with
the world“
Forster sent its best runners to
the Wings for Life World Run in St.
Pölten on 3 May 2015. Running for
charity was exactly the thing to
do – as the runners had done in the
previous year. Altogether 13 runners
competed to support the Wings For
Life Foundation and research into
treatments for spinal cord injury.
Left to right: Fritz Auer, Martin Präuer, Helmut Kloibhofer, Harald Freudenschuß, Alwin
Springer, Jürgen Fluch, Andreas Reitbauer, Christoph Schaupp, Erich Hiesberger, David Heigl,
Dominic Plank, Andreas Kammerhofer, Josef Sattler, Walter Trawetzky (not pictured).
Fishing tournament
Senior tennis
Winner takes 18 kg of fish
European Senior Open
Ideal weather conditions and high spirits once again turned the fishing
tournament organised by the Forster Leisure Club into a huge success.
Fourteen adults and three children entered this year’s competition on 30
May 2015, held for the sixth time in the Laziland of St. Peter in der Au. And
their catch was substantial: The winner was Robert Haneder who caught
altogether 18 kg of fish. The winners were then properly feted with good
food and in a good mood at the Lazelsberger inn.
In a great achievement, Jürgen Florian placed
third at the European Senior Open tournament
held for some 600 players at Seefeld/Tyrol in late
January. Starting out strong in the 40+ category,
Jürgen Florian then had to give way to Matthias
Müller from Germany in the semifinals. But what
a performance!
Tennis
Get the right topspin for the
new season
After the excellent take-up
rate in past years, the tennis
courts at Gstadt (two sand
courts and a club house) are
once again open to Forster
staff members free of charge.
Rackets and balls are available for those who want to
take trial lessons. For the keys
and directions for use simply
contact the human resources
department.
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