Binder & Co

Binder+Co is an internationally successful specialist in machinery and complete systems for screening, drying, sorting, wet-processing as well as packaging and palletising bulk materials of all kinds.

The company, which is based in Gleisdorf, Styria, concentrates on the three segments of processing technology, environmental technology and packaging technology, and is a global market leader in the fields of screening technology and glass recycling.

Their machinery is employed to process bulk materials such as coal, ores, industrial materials, waste glass, recovered paper, plastics waste, products from both the chemical and petrochemical industries, artificial fertilisers, salt, sand, mortar and foodstuffs and animal feeds.

Through its innovative products, Binder+Co makes a valuable contribution to the  efficient management of limited resources.

Setting standards
Binder+Co counts among the world’s top three in product segments in which it is active. As an innovative trailblazer, the company sets standards in the fields of processing technology, environmental technology and packaging technology.

Growing profitably
Modular products make possible customer-specific solutions with the best price/efficiency ratio. Binder+Co’s top products are the key to profitable growth in new markets.

Workforce as a factor of success
The success of the enterprise is borne by the powerful and well motivated workforce of Binder+Co AG.

To consolidate its technology leadership and to assure and expand the technical superiority of machinery sustainably and to respond to new market demands, Binder+Co relies on continual innovation and product (further) development.

In this regard Binder+Co is in close contact with universities, such as the Mining University of Leoben and the University of Graz, as well as with specialised technical research institutes. The company thus cultivates fruitful collaborations – for example with the Karlsruhe-based Frauenhofer Institute. These research co-operations are crucial for the sustainable success of Binder+Co since they enable the results of basic research to be directly implemented in applicable machinery.

The company measures quality and especially market success by using the so-called innovation rate. This key data corresponds to the share of all new orders generated through Binder+Co’s own products brought onto the market as new within the last three years. In 2007 the innovation rate was an impressive 30% and it is aimed to maintain it at a level of 20 to 25% in the coming business years.

High Demands – Proven Many Times Over

• The world’s first optical glass-sorting system on the basis of colour and contaminants using a unique three-way solution.
• The world’s first industrial solution for sorting special heat-resistant types of glass.
• The world’s fastest high-performance open-bag packaging system.
• The most efficient screening solutions for bulk materials difficult to screen (coal, ore, mineral raw materials, recycling materials).
• All working product segments in the world’s top three.

Understanding ISO quality

Quality at Binder+Co is of course written in block capitals – since perfection in design and technical concept is only really set off by perfect implementation and customer care. The enterprise is aware that the quality of its achievements is crucial and that only the market decides success and thus the continuity of jobs in the company. It is this realisation that serves as the driving force towards independent achievement and initiative.

This commitment also finds expression in the successful ISO certification (EN ISO 9001:2000) of the whole management system of Binder+Co AG in the fields of processing technology, environmental technology, packaging technology, after sales service and job-order production.

The high quality requirement of Binder+Co extends throughout all the areas of the enterprise. It applies to the choice and training of staff as equally as it does to the acquisition of materials with which the high-grade products are made, as well as to all processes within the company.

In customer contact, keeping to schedules as well as expert and friendly technical consulting form the basis for a reliable and trustworthy co-operation and thus the foundation for Binder+Co’s successful business activities.

Binder+Co pursues a well-defined growth strategy. Starting from its strong position as a technology and market leader in important product areas and markets, the company relies in particular on four pillars of growth:

Our Path: First Class Performance and Clear Focus

Product Leadership – Growth through innovation and product development
An optimised product portfolio offering module-based, tailor-made customer solutions safeguards the strong market position of Binder+Co as technology leader.

Market Reach – Growth through focused market cultivation
Binder+Co safeguards its world-wide access to markets through its professional sales team. Growth potentials are being raised by a concerted expansion in Eastern Europe and by increased activities in the fields of recycling and minerals.

Operational Excellence – Growth through optimisation of processes
The safeguarding and passing on of specialist knowledge plays a very important role for Binder+Co as a systems provider and process consultant. Next to knowledge management and a solid human resources development, optimising internal processes forms the basis for sustainable operational growth.

Growth through acquisitions
Binder+Co endeavours to supplement product programmes and broaden and complete the sales network by means of strategic growth through targeted acquisitions.

• Born in Pöllau/Styria in 1959.
• Married, three children.
• Member of the Management Board since January 1, 2000.
• Responsible for finance and general administration, engineering, production and investor relations.
• Current appointment period until December 31, 2010.

After completing his studies in mechanical engineering from 1986 to 1990, he was awarded a doctorate (experimental work in the field of conveying technology) parallel to his position as research associate at the Institute of Conveying Technology and Design at the Mining University of Leoben.  Since 1990 he has had a number of scientific reports and works in the field of conveying technology published.

In the framework of the “Scientists for the Economy” campaign instituted by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Dr. Grabner joined Binder+Co AG in 1991 and was responsible for the areas of project planning and sales from 1992 to 1999. In 2000 he was appointed member of the board and took over operational responsibility for the Gleisdorf works. At the same time he was acting member of the board of PSI Inc., Denver, USA – a packaging technology subsidiary hived off in 2005. From 2002 to 2004 Dr. Grabner was furthermore a member of the supervisory board of the ÖSWAG shipbuilding and engineering company, Linz, which is no longer part of the Binder Group. In 2006 he supervised the initial public offering of Binder+Co.

From 1995 to 2001 he was in the standards committee for continuous conveyors, and from 1997 to 2001 head of research projects in collaboration with the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and the Styrian Business Promotion Agency.

Mag. Jörg Rosegger

• Born in Bruck an der Mur in 1966.
• Married, two children.
• Member of the Management Board since January 1, 2007.
• Responsible for sales at Binder+Co and for the business management of the Statec Binder GmbH subsidiary.
• Current appointment period until December 31, 2009.

While studying business administration at Graz University (specialisation in marketing and industrial management) he spent one year at Butler University, Indianapolis,  USA as part of the International Student Exchange Program.

After completing his studies in 1993, he joined Binder+Co AG as assistant to the management board and head of marketing. In 1995, he was appointed product manager for packaging technology, of which he became divisional head in 1997. In 2000 he became director of marketing and sales with power of procuration. He has been a member of the board of Binder+Co AG since 2007.

1926
Dr. Alois Sernetz, the founder’s son-in-law, took over the company management and led the enterprise through the confusion of the economic crisis

From 1940
After the recession years, the beginning of the 1940s heralded an economic upswing. The company grew into a medium-sized enterprise with more than 150 employees.

1954
The pioneering “Binder System” for vibrating screens was developed and deployed in the foodstuffs industry.

1960
The company moved from Graz to the newly built     industrial premises in Gleisdorf, where the first processing plants for industrial minerals for the building industry were produced.

1971
To ensure the world-wide marketing of Binder+Co machinery, the company was integrated into the Voestalpine Group. The first large-scale plants in the field of industrial minerals were designed and manufactured.

1978
Binder+Co developed their first packaging systems for free-flowing bulk materials. 

1989
The first recycling systems were manufactured. They were deployed for sorting waste glass.

1991
The company was reprivatised as part of Auricon Beteiligungs AG.

1999
The company was spun off as an independent public company in the  Waagner-Biro Group.

2006
From December Binder+Co AG was listed in the unregulated third market  of the Vienna Stock Exchange.

2007
Binder+Co AG was accepted into the newly created mid market segment in June, and shortly afterwards was relisted on the regulated open market.