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Peri has helped tackle the construction challenges in the new Mercedes Benz museum, Germany.

Peri looks to build on global market

01 March 2005

After having come through the most successful 12 months of its 35-year history, German formwork specialist Peri is looking forward to achieve a further increase in turnover.

Last year, the group’s consolidated total turnover increased to an estimated 610 million euro ($797 million).
“The positive response of customers to our participation at bauma 2004 – where the company with its wide range of services once again successfully presented itself as an innovative and customer-oriented specialist in formwork and scaffolding technology – made a significant contribution to these excellent set of results,” says a company spokesman.
Despite the difficult situation in Germany, caused by the downturn in the economy, Peri is planning to make good use of the rapidly-growing markets elsewhere across the globe. “The construction sector is growing worldwide with the rise in global population making demands for more living space, infrastructure, schools and universities,” he says.
“Through its global operations, with 42 subsidiaries serving in 53 countries and backed by 70 efficient stockyards strategically situated around the world, Peri supports its customers with know-how, services and rental equipment in the shortest time possible,” says the spokesman. “The positive forecast for Peri in the global construction market is strengthened by the fact that, regardless which structure has to be built, concrete remains the most widely used building material due to such characteristics as protection against noise, fire resistance, flexible utilisation and design possibilities,” he adds.
“However, success is not achieved automatically and Peri has sets itself the goal of helping customers to build more rationally, cost-effectively, faster and safer,” says the spokesman.
One of the buildings where Peri’s technology is at work is the new Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart-Untertükheim. “Apart from providing enormous quantities of system equipment at very short notice such as shoring and working scaffold, climbing platforms as well as wall, column and slab formwork systems, the structural geometry presented special challenges to those Peri engineers involved in the project,” he says. “The sophisticated forms demanded creative interaction between two and three-dimensional CAD planning to enable production of the special formwork elements.”
Another impressive project realised using Peri expertise was the erection of the piers for the Millau Bridge in France, which set a new world record. This involved construction work reaching a maximum height of 245 m to the carriageway as well as the installation of on-site production facilities for producing elements for the complicated roof construction, with individual reinforced concrete segments weighing up to 65 tonnes, for the toll booths,” he says.
Founded in 1969 in Weissenhorn, near Ulm in southern Germany, Peri has continued to grow in size and importance year after year. Today, Works 1 and 2 in Weissenhorn, cover an area of approximately 340,000 sq m.
Modern production halls, totalling 60,000 sq m, manufacture over 90 per cent of all Peri system materials for worldwide distribution. Annually, 40,000 cu m of timber, 50,000 tonnes of steel and 3,000 tonnes of aluminium are processed.
The company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of formwork, shoring and scaffolding systems. In addition to its innovative products, the company offers engineering, planning, special software, rental service and logistics support. With numerous innovations during the past 35 years, Peri has been able to sustain a constant rate of growth in the formwork and scaffolding industry.
Peri system equipment is used world-wide and undergoes a permanent utilisation/ profitability check at the main production plant in Weissenhorn. The experience and knowledge gained from this process is used to further develop, improve or modify the products, which lead to providing the customer with enhanced rationalisation or higher safety standards.