Carinthia, a successful business location
Curtain up for impressive, innovative enterprises
The economic location that is Carinthia has made business history across a range of industries – in many more instances that you would expect! After all, Carinthia doesn’t just offer the perfect on-the-ground conditions, but also the ideal framework and the right sort of attitude for setting up and leading companies successfully, without red tape and with hands-on support.
Carinthia for maximum success
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Successful start-ups
First stop Carinthia, next stop the world
Conquering the world economy from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee? Yes, that really is possible, as shown by the two technology start-ups Bitmovin and Anexia.
Bitmovin began as a spin-off of the University of Klagenfurt and has since morphed into Austria’s first start-up on its way to gaining unicorn status. The company offers products for high-efficiency streaming and the provision of multimedia data via the Internet.
Cloud power from Carinthia! Anexia was founded as a classic Internet service provider in 2006. Today, the company provides premium, customised web solutions and is one of the few IT companies able to hold its own in Cloud Hosting against Internet giants such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon. Founder and CEO Alexander Windbichler is one of Austria’s most successful young enterpreneurs.
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Flagship companies in Carinthia
One of the most innovative flagships within and on behalf of the Carinthian economy is no doubt Infineon Austria, headquartered in Villach and with other sites in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Graz, Linz and Vienna. The Villach headquarters bundle the global business responsibility, R&D and production. The emphasis lies on the development of ever-smaller, energy-efficient chips for automotive, industrial and consumer electronics applications.
Flex, manufacturing service provider for electronic components, operates worldwide, with 100 sites across 30 countries. One of them is the site in Althofen, Carinthia, as the flagship operation for medical technology within the business, producing and developing electronic modules and complete devices for high-calibre international customers from the fields of medical technology, automotive and industrial engineering.
Highly specialised technology all-rounder Wild operates sites in Völkermarkt in southern Carinthia as well as in Wernberg bei Villach. Weissenseer in Greifenburg is a family-run company that has had remarkable successes in timber construction.
Infineon; Infineon
Tourism success stories
Carinthia is known as an extraordinarily successful tourism region. A host of companies located between Heiligenblut and Wolfsberg have had a share in this success. In the following, two companies are highlighted as examples. Setting up a new business and positioning it on the market is a challenge – but the same is true for taking over a traditional enterprise and leading it into a successful future. That is precisely what the “Hotel am See Die Forelle”, located on the shores of Lake Millstätter See, has succeeded in doing. The hotel and seminar centre eduCare in Treffen near Villach has just been redesigned and expanded with investments that amount to millions of Euro. It is now fully accessible and completely Co2-neutral.
Uwe Geissler; Kärnten Werbung
Yes, they can!
Other businesses – success that inspires and motivates
Plastic container production on injection-moulding machines: Europlast Kunststoffbehälterindustrie GmbH Produktion, Dellach im Drautal Innovative, internationally successful businesses around EPS: Hirsch Servo Gruppe, Glanegg Technology company that operates worldwide: T.I.P.S. Messtechnik GmbH, Villach
Processing of quartz glass, silica and ceramic for the optical and semiconductor industry: Sico Technology GmbH, Bad Bleiberg Innovative steel construction: Buttazoni GmbH, Himmelberg
Highly successful in microelectronics, with sites in California, Graz and Carinthia: CISC Semiconductor GmbH, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Successful in electrical and automation engineering, in Austria and beyond: PMS Elektro- und Automationstechnik GmbH, St. Stefan im Lavanttal
A successful family business in chemicals: HOS-Technik Vertriebs- und Produktions-GmbH
