
Machine engineering without compromise
Vibroconveyor Technology. Screening Technology. Magnetic Technology.
Machines that reliably fulfill their purpose for many years – that‘s what IFE offers customers from a wide variety of industries. With commitment and decades of experience, IFE succeeds in finding individual, often unconventional solutions for the processing of nearly all kinds of bulk materials.
This wealth of experience from numerous applications is optimally used for our customers and is the driving force for constant product development.
Our values
Commitment and decades of experience - these success factors enable IFE to find individual, often unconventional solutions for customers from a wide range of industries. In doing so, we meet our customers at eye level and strive for sustainable relationships based on partnership.
A sustainable, partnership-based relationship with our customers, employees and other stakeholders is our greatest asset. Mutual trust and reliability characterize these relationships.
For more than 70 years we have been supplying machines for the processing of primary and secondary raw materials in a wide variety of industries worldwide. The central hub of our success are our employees, who collect and apply this know-how.
Our machines and solutions make a significant contribution to the realization of a sustainable (circular) economy. IFE Material Handling is a provider of ideas, innovator, problem solver, efficiency optimizer and reliable production partner for its customers.
Helmut Tröbinger | Global Sales Director
1947
Foundation of IFE as Institute for Technical Research and Development in Vienna.
1965
Development of today’s headquarters and production site at Waidhofen/Ybbs.
1975
The product range is extended by magnetic separators.
1997
Knorr-Bremse Systems for Rail Vehicles, Munich, takes over 49% of the IFE shares.
1999
The first eddy current separator is built.
2002
The product range is extended by waste screens.
2003
By a management buy-out the division “Aufbereitungstechnik” (bulk material handling) turns into the independent company IFE
2010
The special waste screen IFE Variomat is developed.
2018
The eddy current portfolio is significantly expanded.
2021
With the AEROSELECTOR, IFE launches an absolute novelty for compost processing.
2024
The new i-STEP product category for the digital optimization of material handling operations was presented at IFAT Munich 2024.