!!!Waagner-Biro Binder AG

Waagner-Biro Binder AG, one of the largest Austrian businesses in the 
iron and steel working industry. Originally founded by the ironmonger 
Rudolf P. Waagner and the locksmith Anton Biró in Vienna in 
1854, who merged the firms in 1904 and carried on business as 
Waagner-Biró AG from 1924-1998. In 1999 Waagner-Biró AG 
and Binder + Co AG (both subsidiaries of  Auricon Beteiligungs AG) 
merged to form Waagner-Biró Binder AG. Sites in Vienna, 
Gleisdorf (Styria), United Kingdom and Hungary. Their range of 
business activities includes steel and glass engineering, construction 
of bridges, stage technology and processing technology. The  
shipbuilding company OeSWAG Werft Linz Ges. m. b. H. 
belongs to Waagner-Biró Binder AG. The following constructions 
were built by the Waagner-Biró AG in Austria: Europabruecke 
bridge in Tirol, Murbruecke bridge in Graz, Lehener Bruecke bridge in 
Salzburg, Guertel and Nordbahn bridges in Vienna, floodgates for 
Danube power stations, the façade of the Andromeda Tower in 
Vienna, stage machinery for the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg 
Festspielhaus theatre, numerous cable railways and in Berlin (Germany) 
the steel and glass cupola of the Reichstag building. Turnover (1998): 
ATS 3,270 million; 2,000 employees.



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