Mageba (Swiss company)
civil engineering company
Mageba (stylised as mageba) is a civil engineering service provider and manufacturer of bridge bearings, expansion joints, seismic protection and structural monitoring devices for the construction industry. The company is headquartered in Bulach, Switzerland, and operates through offices in Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific. In all, mageba has official representations in over 40 countries.
History
mageba was founded in 1963 in Bulach, Switzerland. By 1969 the company was designing and manufacturing a variety of bridge bearings and expansion joints, and had heavy duty testing facilities in operation. In 2004 the company merged with Proceq. The resulting company continued to design and manufacture bridge bearings and expansion joints.
In April 2011, mageba USA LLC was founded with offices in New York and San Jose.
By then mageba had production facilities in Fussach (Austria), Shanghai (China), and offices in Uslar and Stuttgart (Germany) and Cugy (Switzerland). By 2012, the company had four facilities in India, and was also operating in Russia, South Korea, and Turkey.
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