FACC boss Robert Machtlinger and Martin Bergsmann, technology spokesman for the Industry division, referred to this on Thursday at a press conference in Linz. With other companies and research institutions, they are part of the lightweight construction platform Austrian Advanced Lightweight Technology (A2LT).
With the economist Anna Kleissner, the platform has analyzed the industry, the data comes from 2022, more recent is not available. Accordingly, lightweight construction in Austria is directly and indirectly attributed to 20.3 billion euros in added value. “This is twice as much as gastronomy and more than mechanical engineering and energy generation and supply,” Machtlinger calculated. The value of lightweight construction in the entire domestic economy is 5.06 percent.
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