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SWARCO

WHO WE ARE

You encounter us every day on the roads of our planet. Our products, systems, services and turnkey solutions offer orientation, safety and convenient travelling for all people on the move. Following the spirit of SWARCO founder Manfred Swarovski we live agility, innovation and trustful cooperation and do not hesitate to go the extra mile for you.

The traffic technology group SWARCO headquartered in Wattens near Innsbruck / Austria has an international network of production facilities, offices and partners on all continents and offers one of the most complete solution portfolios for road marking, signage, urban traffic management, parking, highway and tunnel management, and public transport. We connect vehicles with the road infrastructure, help in setting up charging infrastructure to boost electro-mobility and offer modular and holistic solutions with added values that support tomorrow’s mobility and make life in our cities more liveable.

SWARCO’s over 5,300 traffic experts are looking forward to elaborate and implement jointly with you the solutions that really meet your individual requirements. What can we do for you today?

WHAT WE DO

Leading Idea

Instead of formulating a corporate vision or mission, SWARCO has condensed its business purpose in the following leading idea.

WE IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE

BY MAKING THE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE SAFER, QUICKER,

MORE CONVENIENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND.

This idea is also underpinned by our new claim:

THE BETTER WAY. EVERY DAY.

SWARCO in Numbers

50 Years of Experience. Worldwide.

SHAPING THE WORLD OF MOBILITY IN 70 COUNTRIES.

Manfred Swarovski founds his first glass bead production in Amstetten, the birthplace of today's SWARCO Group.
1969
HEOSCONT CHEMIE becomes part of SWARCO. Start of road marking contracting business.
1973
Start of US business with glass beads, later followed by tape and thermoplastic production.
1974
Acquisition of Vestische Strahl- und Reflexglas GmbH, Recklinghausen, Germany, today SWARCO VESTGLAS.
1978
Acquisition of FUTURIT-WERKE AG, today SWARCO FUTURIT, the world’s largest traffic light producer.
First shares in LIMBURGER LACKFABRIK, Germany’s no. 1 manufacturer of liquid road marking materials.
1986
Start of glass bead and thermoplastic production in Saudi Arabia.
1990
Introduction of the MEGALUX-BEADS technology, high quality glass beads for wet night retroreflectivity.
1994
Production of Austria’s first-ever motorway toll sticker.

1997
SWARCO is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft (AG).
1999
SWARCO inaugurates new traffic light and VMS production in Austria.
SWARCO FUTURIT launches FUTURLED LED traffic signal generation.
The SWARCO Group breaks the 1 bn ATS threshold.
2000
SWARCO expands into traffic management solution business by acquisitions in Scandinavia.
2003
The SWARCO Group has a total of more than 1,000 employees worldwide.
Acquisition of majority share in Romanian paint factory VICAS.
2006
Acquisition of majority share in M. TECH AG with SIGNALBAU HUBER and DAMBACH WERKE in Germany.
2007
Acquisition of US paint factory COLORADO PAINT, Denver.
2008
2,700 SWARCO employees realize over 400 million euros worldwide.
2009
Introduction of SOLIDPLUS glass bead technology.
Start of LED street lighting business (FUTURLUX).

2010
Extension of SWARCO‘s headquarters building in Wattens, Austria.
2012
SWARCO TRAFFIC WORLD in Wattens goes live.
Acquisition of UK-based APT Group (parking and e-mobility) and German TRANSVER. Turnover passes 500 MEUR threshold.
2014
De-listing of SWARCO TRAFFIC HOLDING AG with subsequent squeeze-out
2015
Merger of IMS with SWARCO VESTGLAS. Acquisition of US-based McCain Inc.
Extension of Perchtoldsdorf site. SWARCO generates revenues of
615.4 MEUR
2016
SWARCO's 3600 employees generate 675 MEUR in revenues, a new all-time high.
2017
SWARCO mourns the loss of founder Manfred Swarovski.
Expansion through acquisitions in Switzerland (Bergauer AG) and Germany (Vialux Glasperlen GmbH).
2018
SWARCO celebrates its 50th anniversary.
2019
In the pandemic year,
SWARCO reaches a
new all-time high in net sales
(758 MEUR)
2020
Supalux (AUS),
Dynniq Mobility (NL)
and Hitex International (UK)
become part of the
SWARCO Family
2021
Inauguration of new glass bead factories
in Austria and the USA;
Revenues exceed 1 bn € for the first time
2022