James Hardie Europe
Fiber cement building materials in many facets
Created through the takeover of the former Fermacell GmbH in 2018, James Hardie Europe GmbH now offers a wide range of products: In addition to Hardie® Plank and Hardie® Panel facade cladding made of fiber cement, you will also find fermacell® gypsum fiberboards and fermacell® screed elements for high-quality drywall and timber construction.
James Hardie Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of the globally operating James Hardie Industries plc (JHIplc), which was founded in Australia in 1888. Success was not long in coming: today, James Hardie Industries plc is an international market leader for fiber cement building materials with enormously strong market positions in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
This means that you benefit from a range that covers entire wall systems for drywall and timber construction. Our portfolio is rounded off by the cement-bonded, lightweight concrete board Powerpanel® H2O with fiberglass reinforcement for finishing areas subject to high stress or mechanical loads. The Aestuver® brand, on the other hand, stands for solutions in the field of structural fire protection as well as fire protection solutions for electrical installations and underground transportation systems.
History
James Hardie
The company was founded more than 100 years ago: in 1888 the young James Hardie made his way from Scotland to Melbourne in Australia and founded a company for the import of oils and tannery products. With a keen sense of the needs of the Australian market, he later specialised in the building materials industry. Together with his partner, Andrew Reid, who had also immigrated from Scotland, he set up a building materials business, which was run by the Reid family until 1995 after James Hardie retired. The company went public on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1951 and in the years that followed it expanded its portfolio to include numerous new construction and industrial products.
Since the first James Hardie® fiber cement product was launched in Australia and the USA in the mid-1980s, the global player has continued to develop its innovation with its own research and product development teams. As a result of decades of research work, HardiePlank® and HardiePanel® facade claddings are now available to the market - some 6 million houses worldwide later - as a building material that is slim but particularly stable and impact-resistant, does not shrink or swell and does not crack when used for years under the most extreme climatic conditions. Thanks to the technical and manufacturing know-how built up in Australia, the company is now a leading global manufacturer of high-tech building materials, with a wide range of solutions for both interior and exterior wall cladding applications.
Aestuver®
The Aestuver® brand has been around since 1989 and has developed into one of the leading German brands in the field of glass fibre lightweight concrete technology. Today, Aestuver® fire protection panels stand for high-quality fire protection solutions in the field of electrical installations and underground traffic systems. A wide range of products for bulkheads, fire protection coatings and fire protection joints is also available under the brand.
fermacell®
fermacell® gypsum fibre boards are the ideal complement to the product portfolio of James Hardie. The first gypsum fiber board - and thus the first gypsum fiber board in Germany - rolled off the production line at the fermacell® plant in Münchehof near Goslar in the early 1970s. This laid the foundation for the success of the fermacell® brand. The high-quality, particularly stable finishing board has fundamentally changed the entire drywall construction industry and thus made the fermacell® brand big and strong. Today, fermacell® gypsum fibre boards and the water- and weather-resistant Powerpanel® H2O boards stand for fast and economical expansion concepts for all areas of interior construction. Pioneering innovations have made fermacell® one of the best-known building material brands in the industry and the European market leader for high-quality gypsum fibre and cement-bonded boards.