Blum amongst top patent applicants

Fittings manufacturer ranked amongst top five Austrian companies in terms of patent applications in 2007

Hoechst, Austria – June 2008

Every year, "Statistik Austria" ranks Austrian companies according to the number of patent applications they file. Blum has always ranked amongst the top companies in the past few years, and this remained the case in 2007. The fittings manufacturer from Vorarlberg (western Austria) applied for 24 patents last year, putting it fifth behind other large and renowned companies. To date, more than one thousand patents have been granted to Blum.

Blum first files for patents on new developments in Austria. After a year at most, the company has to decide whether to extend patent protection to include other countries.

Appropriate and consistent investments are made in research and development so the company can meet the demands it makes of itself as world leader in the field of fittings and maintain its market position in the long term.