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noVomatiC-hQ risinG: the BuiLDinG’s ProGress
With a total expenditure of EUR 90 million the building of Novomatic’s new headquarters and research & development
centre began in April 2008. The construction work on what is one of Austria’s biggest construction sites is progressing
according to plan and on schedule. The total length of the complex is 350 metres, with a width of 87.5 metres at the
broadest part and the office tower will rise to a height of 40 metres.
P
roducing 100,000 gaming devices and with total group The formwork surfaces alone amount to a total of 63,000 square
revenues in excess of EUR 2.5 billion in 2008 the Novo- metres – the equivalent of four soccer pitches.
matic Group of Companies is one of the international
gaming industry’s true giants. The group employs over 14,000 the production area
staff worldwide and itself operates more than 105,000 gaming
machines across over 800 traditional and electronic casinos. Yet This area encompasses the entire production as well as the ware-
the group’s founder Professor Johann F. Graf has never lost sight house and the delivery areas. Construction work and interior fitting
of Novomatic’s origins in Lower Austria. When the group needed of these areas have now been completed. The production facilities
new space to house its ever expanding teams of highly qualified of the previous plants 3, 5, 6 and 9 as well as the warehouse were
and dedicated administration and research & development staff, it relocated in mid December 2008, in order to be able to recom-
became yet another development and expansion milestone with mence production in January 2009. The repairs and spare parts
the creation of a facility that will stand as a new landmark for the departments, too, formerly located in plant 1, were relocated at
company. the turn of the year. Within the already approved production and
warehouse area of 20,940 sqm normal operations were success-
On March 5th, 2008 Novomatic celebrated the official ground- fully recommenced in January 2008. Also the grounds between
breaking ceremony for the extension of the headquarters. By the the new complex and plant 2 or 7, respectively, were completed
middle of 2009 a new building complex for research & devel- in mid December.
opment, production and administration building will be opened
in Gumpoldskirchen, Lower Austria. At the date of publication of The ventilation and heating of the new production area was set
this issue of the ‘novomatic
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magazine’ more than 30,000 cubic up provisionally prior to the completion of the structural works, the
metres of concrete and 20,000 tons of steel have been integrated. building’s shell and core, as all exhaust air has to be dissipated via
38 novomatic
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march 2009
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