founded 1958 1868 headquarters amstetten austria area served worldwide key people j rgen obiegli gerd pechura ludwig pekarek executive board products formwork engineering revenue 1215 million consolidated revenues of the umdasch group ag 1 subsidiaries 160 website www.doka.com doka is an international producer and supplier of formwork used in all fields of the construction sector . it is a branch of the umdasch group ag jsc based in amstetten austria . the doka group has a worldwide workforce of more than 6 000 with 160 branches in 70 countries . 2 the consolidated revenues of the umdasch group ag amounted to 1215 million euros in 2015 . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 doka 2 product and service overview 3 projects 4 external links 5 footnotes history edit the doka group and the umdasch shopfitting group make up the umdasch group ag with its headquarters located in amstetten austria . in 1868 4 stefan hopferwieser 5 founded the company st. & a. hopferwieser as a carpentry in the town of kollmitzberg . during the first 80 years of the company the company had diversified into carpentry sawmill wood and metal manufacturing producing among others furniture home appliances metal hardware and packaging . in 1949 the engineer josef umdasch who was married to mathilde hopferwieser granddaughter of stefan hopferwieser became the managing director of the company rebuilding and restructuring it . 6 josef umdasch had been a board member of the company since 1939 . in the 1950s prefabricated formwork production and store fitting production arms of the company crystallized into the two modern branches within the corporate group . in 1961 the corporate group was renamed to umdasch kg . after josef umdasch retired his children hilde and alfred umdasch directed the company . doka edit in 1958 the company branch doka 7 was founded . the company founding and company name are interlinked with their first product and projects . in austria in the 1950s large infrastructural construction was underway including several hydro electrical dams . the dams were being built on the danube river donau and its tributaries by the austrian utility donaukraftwerke or dokw for short translating as danube power stations . because of the great size of these structures traditional timber beam formwork was too labor intensive to form the large walls . thus a large scale systematic and reusable formwork was developed with the wooden formwork panels being produced and shipped from the amstetten company . originally the dokw was the delivery address but then became the product name dokw boards . linguistic usage slurred dokw into doka which became the name of the newly founded company . in 1961 the first subsidiary was established in germany followed in 1977 by brazil and kuwait . since then doka has grown to service countries in all inhabited continents particularly in europe and the middle east and in the english speaking countries great britain ireland new zealand australia canada and the united states . doka have a well established office in qatar . 8 product and service overview edit the formwork products systems and design service include formwork panels slab formwork wall formwork one sided wall formwork climbing formwork tunnel formwork dam formwork bridge formwork cast in place balanced cantilever bridge concrete arch bridge and steel combination bridge formwork shoring falsework tie systems and field support software and training . doka s business is based on a combination of production equipment sale & rental engineering and maintenance . most of the formwork production takes place at the group s central plant in amstetten . 9 the doka three ply sheets are made in the branch plant in bansk bystrica in slovakia . projects edit projects built using doka formwork brickell city centre miami usa 432 park ave new york city usa 56 leonard street new york city usa three world trade center new york city usa muskrat falls hydro electric dam labrador canada brayton point cooling towers somerset massachusetts usa lotte world premium tower seoul south korea sutong chang jiang highway bridge china menara carigali malaysia juma al majid tower dubai united arab emirates burj khalifa united arab emirates the core of the world s tallest building burj al arab united arab emirates one of the most expensive hotels in the world in dubai jamarat bridge makkah kingdom of saudi arabia multi level bridge bridgewater place united kingdom tour cbx france bmw welt germany vienna skylink vienna airport austria enlargement of vienna s international airport millennium tower vienna austria t center austria kista science tower sweden west tower liverpool england citation needed ada bridge belgrade serbia external links edit homepage of the doka group homepage of doka usa ltd. homepage of doka canada ltd. homepage of umdasch group homepage of umdasch shopfitting group footnotes edit 1 annual report umdasch group 2015 2 about doka group 3 annual report umdasch group 2015 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