MACO Door & Window

Infobox_Company
company_name = Mayer & Co Beschläge GmbH
company_
company_type = Ltd
foundation= Altenmarkt, Austria 1947
location_city = Salzburg
location_country = AUT
key_people = DI Ernst Mayer (Founder and Chairman)
num_employees = More than 2,300 (2007)
industry = Metal Processing
products = Fittings for Windows and Doors
slogan = "Technology in Motion"
homepage = [http://www.macouk.net/ www.macouk.net]

The Business MACO Door & Window Hardware (U.K.) LTD is an international manufacturer of window and door fittings with its main office in Salzburg, Austria. The company employs more than 2300 people in total worldwide (as at July 2007) and has a total operating area of over 140,000 m².

History

The Business was established in 1947 by KR Lorenz Mayer in Altenmarkt in Austria. 1952 the Business moved from Altenmarkt to Salzburg. 1971 KR Lorenz Mayer dies at work and KR DI Ernst Mayer takes over management of the company. From 1972 – 1992 the company grows in stages to 25.400 m² and 590 employees. The production plant in Trieben is opened in 1995 and extended in 2007.

Locations

Production plant

MACO Fittings are produced in two production works in Austria:
* Salzburg
* TriebenA third production plant in Mauterndorf, Austria will begin production in the middle of 2008. A new assembly plant in Kalugacite web | title= Maco establishes plant in Kaluga | url= http://austriantrade.org/ru/news/local/20071015-maco.en.jsp?newLanguage=en | work= austriantrade.org| publisher = The Commercial Counsellor in Moscow| accessdate=2008-03-18 |date=2007-10-15] [cite news | title=MACO to build fittings plant in Kaluga worth 50 Mln euros |publisher= Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire |date=2007-10-15 ] , Russian Federation will be ready at the end of 2008 and will serve the Russian Market.

Around 25 million windows are equipped yearly with Maco fittings.Fact|date=March 2008

Sales branches

Sales branches can be found in:
* Italy (under the name MAICO; also responsible for serving the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek markets)
* Great Britain
* The Netherlands
* Germany
* Poland
* Russia
* Czech Republic
* Slovakia
* France
* Spain
* Romania
* Ukraine

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.maco.at/ MACO Website]
* [http://www.maico.com/ MAICO Website]
* [http://www.infoline-fenster.de BauNetz Infoline window and doors]