Vision and mission Vision Our vision is to continue as a learning and innovative global Corporation which anticipates the needs of markets and customers. This empowers us to develop suitable solutions faster than the comp......Vision and mission Vision Our vision is to continue as a learning and innovative global Corporation which anticipates the needs of markets and customers. This empowers us to develop suitable solutions faster than the competition. Market leadership by innovation is our target for the future. Mission We see our mission in concentrating on future-oriented and growing niche markets in the strategic business units Compression Technology Automation Technology Drive Technology We have the objective of occupying a leading and global position in our markets, secured by high technical competence. Thus, the Corporation invests in innovative products and processes, which enable sustainable, profitable growth. Competitive and cost advantages are the benefits for our customers. Values Vision and mission are promoted by our values. HOERBIGER’s international success is based on value-oriented corporate action. Recognizing customer requirements, shaping innovation, maintaining partnerships, living responsibility. HOERBIGER brand values stand for this: Pioneering Spirit Courage Fairness Closeness You can only make decisions if you have no fear of mistakes. HOERBIGER shows courage: by daring to judge its decisions against the requirements for the future. We bear the responsibility for the decisions we make today. Closeness In order to meet a challenge, you have to meet the people. HOERBIGER shows closeness: As a corporation with worldwide activities we know the value of good international relations. We meet cultural and national differences with local logistics and close personal contact with our customers. Fairness Every individual’s input deserves the group’s respect. HOERBIGER relies on fairness: Where many opinions converge, an open attitude to other views must prevail. In communication our dealings are based on respect and our behavior is rooted in partnership. The HOERBIGER history The HOERBIGER brand is synonymous throughout the world with courage und pioneering spirit in gas and process technology, in the automotive industry and in mechanical engineering. Generations of engineers have shaped this image. Technological niches have always provided the focus of challenge for HOERBIGER: optimum problem solutions with clear competitive and cost advantages for customers. The series of patent registrations goes back to 1894 when the charismatic inventor and scientist Hanns Hörbiger laid the foundation for over 100 years of successful corporate history. His idea was a simple but, at that time, revolutionary and efficient valve. HOERBIGER 1894 to 1945 Courage and Pioneering Spirit 1894: Hanns Hörbiger, a young engineer from Vienna, who was interested in a great variety of things, had an idea for a new design of blast furnace blowing engine: he replaced the old and susceptible leather flap valves with a steel valve. Opening and closing automatically, light and frictionless guided, the disk valve eliminated all the drawbacks of previous valve designs. Hanns Hörbiger registered his idea for patent thus making a decisive contribution to the development of the modern industrial society. His valve smoothed the way for efficient steel production and greater productivity in mining. High-pressure chemistry and the global network of gas exchange – none of these would be possible without the HOERBIGER valve. In 1900, Hanns Hörbiger and the engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Rogler founded an engineer’s office in Budapest this was moved to Vienna in 1903. By 1925 it had developed into the HOERBIGER & CO trading company. Alfred Hörbiger, one of Hörbiger’s sons, joined the company in 1925 and assumed the management. Hanns Hörbiger devoted himself to scientific study until his death in 1931. The company developed rapidly under Alfred Hörbiger’s management: a production facility was taken into service in Vienna and an affiliated company was set up in Düsseldorf. HOERBIGER expanded into England and concluded numerous licensing agreements with leading manufacturers of piston blowers, compressors and ships’ diesel engines in Europe and North America. The success was driven by originality and inventive genius. The disk valve became more sophisticated: HOERBIGER developed highlift or high-pressure valves, compressor control systems and damper plates. By 1937, 98 percent of production was destined for export. The name HOERBIGER had become a dependable trademark in valve and control technology for compressors. HOERBIGER 1945 to 1989 Reconstruction By 1945 the main facility in the Simmering district in Vienna had been destroyed. Not only had the material assets been lost by the end of the war all the company’s intellectual property, patents and processes had been released for general use. After the passing of Alfred Hörbiger in July 1945, his widow Martina Hörbiger assumed management responsibility for the company. Through her tremendous entrepreneurial courage and will power, Martina Hörbiger not only laid the foundation for the companys early globalization, she also decisively expanded its port