coordinates 47 33 51 n 14 15 04 e 47.5642 n 14.2512 e 47.5642 ; 14.2512 maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei type gmbh . industry mechanical engineering predecessor 1939 46 schmidh tte liezen schmid & co. kg . 1 1946 53 h tte liezen ges.m.b.h . 1 1954 63 vereinigte sterreichische eisen und stahlwerke ag werk liezen 1 1964 72 v est werk liezen 1 1973 83 voest alpine ag werk liezen 1 1987 89 noricum maschinenbau und handel gmbh 1 1989 94 maschinenfabrik liezen ges.m.b.h . 1 founded 1994 headquarters liezen austria products milling and sawing machines mineral crushers services metal engineering casting website www.mfl.at maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei gesmbh is a foundry and mechanical engineering company based in liezen austria . the company s origins date to 1939 when a factory was established in liezen for war materials production . post wwii the company h tte liezen entered state control and became a subsidiary to v est in the 1950s . during the 1980s the company was involved in the noricom arms scandal due to its production of heavy artillery which were illegally exported . after independence from voest in the 1980s and bankruptcy in the 1990s the company was restarted as maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei ges.m.b.h . in 1994 . as of 2012 the company has extensive mechanical engineering facilities and foundry and manufactures industrial milling and sawing machines . several associate companies acquired after 1994 manufacture mineral processing equipment . contents 1 history 1.1 background h tte liezen 1.2 maschinenfabrik liezen 1.3 maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei 2 products and services 3 references 4 external links history edit background h tte liezen edit iron ore deposits close to liezen had been known to exist since the 1200s ; mining and smelting took place in the liezen area till the end of the 19th century . in 1939 the family of industrialists schmid schmidsfelden created a works in liezen ; this was for the war effort and was not intended to be a post war commercial business . by 1944 1100 people were working at the plant . in may 1945 the american allied army had reached liezen and the plant was closed . 2 in 1945 the facilities included a steelworks and foundry building of over 10 000 m2 110 000 sq ft and another building of over 7 500 m2 81 000 sq ft with metal treatment cleaning annealing etc. and mechanical engineering facilities as well as various outbuildings offices and power generation facilities . 3 the plant was nationalised in 1946 becoming h tte liezen gesmbh with a workforce reduced to 350 . by the 1950s employment had risen to nearly 1000 workers ; in 1953 due to a difficult economic environment the plant was transferred under lease to the care of v est of linz for 15 years the plant s name became v est liezen production synergies between the two plants were optimised with the liezen works receiving steel from v est s linz plant . in 1963 the workforce was approximately 1300 . 2 when v est became v est alpine in 1973 the factory became v est alpine ag werk liezen . around that time the plant s equipment was modernised at a cost of approximately schilling 350 million . 2 noricum maschinenbau und handel 1987 9 in 1986 the company was renamed noricum maschinenbau und handels gmbh ; 2 4 during this period it became the centre of arms export scandal the noricum scandal ; the plant had manufactured the gc 45 howitzer which was then exported to iraq and iran via proxies at the time of the iran iraq war this was in violation of austria s own arms treaties and arms export treaties . 5 it ultimately led to the trial and convictions of government officials and politicians for violations of austria s neutrality act in addition to others convicted of arms dealing . 6 maschinenfabrik liezen edit in october 1989 the company became an independent entity as maschinenfabrik liezen ag and was sold for the token sum of 1 schilling to industrialist emmerich assmann . the assmann group became banckrupt in 1993 and after a brief interim ownership by 1994 the maschinenfabrik liezen was itself insolvent and was eventually sold to the haider group . 2 maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei edit after insolvency proceedings the company was restarted as maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei ges.m.b.h . on 5 december 1994 . 1 in 1996 the mineral processing company grinding mills and components christian pfeifer maschinenfabrik was taken over . 7 in 2004 the company mfl faserzementanlagen ges.m.b.h . fibre cement manufacturing equipment manufacturer was formed from the assets of voith fcm ; maschinenfabrik liezen and ics automation of switzerland are backers of the company . 8 in august 2011 the mineral processing crushing sorting etc. company sbm mineral processing gmbh of laakirchen was taken over by mfl s owner group haider heinrich obernhuber kr nes consulting gmbh . becoming an associate company of the mfl group . 9 a rail milling and grinding joint venture vossloh mfl rail milling gmbh was formed in association with vossloh ag in 2012 . 10 products and services edit the company manufactures machines for mineral processing including crushing and sorting equipment in addition to products by associates christian pfeifer maschinenfabrik and sbm mineral processing industrial saws and milling machines and cable stranding machines through mfl group associate mali gesmbh . 11 . the foundry also produces iron and alloy castings . 12 references edit a b c d e f g h karl h dl 2 january 2008 liezener stadtchronik maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei gesmbh www.liezen.at in german stadt liezen a b c d e sources markus schaupensteiner h tte liezen www.liezen.at in german stadt liezen alternative html link from die h tte liezen by rolf schretthauser franz mathis 1987 h tte liezen p. 156 big business in sterreich sterreichische grossunternehmen in kurzdarstellungen in german oldenbourg wissenschaftsverlag isbn 3 486 53771 7 karl h dl 17 january 2011 liezener stadtchronik werkstra e 5 www.liezen.at in german stadt liezen karl h dl 26 october 2009 noricum maschinenbau und handel gmbh www.liezen.at in german stadt liezen from festschrift 70 jahre werk liezen 1939 2009 by karl h dl die super kanone aus liezen diepresse.com in german styria media group ag 9 december 2006 armin thumher 1993 wenn spatzen kanonen exportieren www.zeit.de in german zeit online historie christian pfeiffer www.christianpfeiffer.net 1996 mfl fibercement machinery www.mfl fc.at retrieved 14 january 2012 mfl takes over sbm two strong brands on the mineral processing world market www.mfl.at mfl 8 august 2011 rail milling joint venture formed www.railwaygazette.com 12 april 2012 mali mali gesmbh anlagen f r die kabel und drahtindustrie www.mali.at leading companies of austria maschinenfabrik liezen und giesserei gesmbh www.leitbetriebe.at leitbetriebe austria retrieved 15 january 2012 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to maschinenfabrik liezen . mfl maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei www.mfl.at in german english hungarian and russian company website associates sbm mineral processing www.sbm mp.at in german french english and russian startseite christian pfeiffer www.christianpfeiffer.net in german english french spanish italian russian and chinese mali mali gesmbh anlagen f r die kabel und drahtindustrie www.mali.at mfl fibercement machinery www.mfl fc.at literature maschinenfabrik liezen und giesserei gmbh pdf www.advantageaustria.org product and service brochure retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title maschinenfabrik liezen und gie erei & oldid 716896307 categories engineering companies of austriamanufacturing companies of austriahidden categories cs1 german language sources de coordinates not on wikidatacommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 24 april 2016 at 15 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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