Employee portrait – Marianne Figi After studying and working in other areas of Switzerland, the position as Marketing Communications Assistant at Swisspearl gave Marianne the opportunity to join one of the biggest firms in the Canton of Glarus which is her home region. She joined the Swisspearl marketing team in 2018. I’ve always been fascinated…
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Faces behind facades - Real Estate Manager

Employee portrait – Franz Landolt In his forty-one years at Swisspearl’s facility in Niederurnen, Franz Landolt has worked in many different capacities, from the lab to the boardroom. With degrees in chemical engineering and business administration, he has been head of research and development, plant manager, and vice-director. Nowadays he oversees the company’s real estate…
Revival of the Swisspearl Mini-Hatschek-Machine

If you want to be successful tomorrow, you must think ahead today! The Swisspearl Group is constantly working on optimizing the conditions for “people, markets and machines” in such a way, that we can further strengthen our position in global competition and at the same time ensure a positive working environment for our employees. An…
Interview with Philip Gresley

Gresley Abas Architects in Perth, Australia. Gresley Abas Architects was founded by Philip Gresley and Ahmad Abas in Perth, Australia, in 2004. Gresley Abas work in several different areas, participate in national and international competitions, and in addition to their closely object-related architectural practice, are also devoted to developing master plans. Gresley Abas advocate for…
In Search of Innovation and Excellence

Swisspearl is innovative, flexible, and exacting when it comes to accommodating clients’ needs and wishes for fiber cement panels. A crucial role in the product development process is played by the Research and Development department in Niederurnen, Switzerland, in collaboration with the laboratories in Vöcklabruck, Austria and Anhovo, Slovenia. This team of experts is constantly…
Swisspearl Architecture Magazine #29

We are pleased to inform you about the latest issue of the Swisspearl Architecture magazine. Subscribe to our magazine to get the printed issue. This issue features buildings representing a wide variety of typologies and scales, built across an expansive geographic range, from a new community center in Australia, a behavioral health hospital in USA,…
Swisspearl Vintago-Reflex - NEW COLOR RANGE

The new facade panel with a rough, lively and shiny look. Vintago-Reflex is a through-colored fiber cement panel with a sanded, slightly rough surface combined with a reflective coating. This special composition gives the panels an outstandingly beautiful look. It can be excellently combined with our Vintago and Reflex panels and thus opens up entirely…
Skanstes City, Riga

From military building to modern office The reconstruction of SWH office center in one of the largest business districts in Riga was completed in September 2019. Modern office space was built on an area of over 16,000 m2. For the two buildings, which were located in the military zone during Soviet times, it was important…
Fibercement panels with milled engravings

Contemporary working environment Swisspearl offers fibercement panels with milled engravings tailored to the customer’s individual requests. In the entrance area of the visitor center at Swisspearl Group in Niederurnen, a sample landscape photo has been exemplarily re-worked as a relief-milled image—with a milled line grid. When the fiber cement factory in Switzerland’s Niederurnen did a…
Swisspearl Sponeck Chairs and Tables: The place to relax in a unique quarter

“PAUPYS” is a new place for living and working in the historic old town of Vilnius in Lithuania, winding along the Vilnelė River. The district is being created as part of the Park of Architecture project, which is a large-scale conversion project that transforms the old areas of the capital into harmonious zones for work and…