Christian Knill

Chairman of Metaltechnology Austria
CEO KNILL Gruppe

Sabine Hesse
Managing director

• Association policy
• Industrial policy issues
• National & international representation of interests
• Working group: Locks and Building Hardware Manufacturers

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3358
email: hesse@fmti.at

Adolf Kerbl
Managing director

• Environment and technology regulation
• Standardization, quality management, R&D
• Working groups: Foundry Industry, Machine Tools, Associacion of Austria Boiler Suppliers (VÖK)

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3476
email: giesserei@wko.at

Barbara Schicker
Deputy director

• public procurement law, Price indexation
• Antitrust law
• Collective wage agreements
• Legal matters/infomation
• Trade policy
• Transport policy
• Working groups: Surface Technology, Agricultural machinery, Construction machinery, Pums and compressors 

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3368
email: schicker@fmti.at

Clemens Zinkl
Deputy director

• Environmental regulation
• BAT, BREFs
• Working groups: Automotive Industry, Internal combustion engines and gas turbines, Surface technology, Hot dip galvanizing

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3470
email: zinkl@fmti.at

Martin Baminger 

• Statistics
• Economic analysis
• Homepage
• Member magazine “INSIDE”
• Additive Manufacturing
• Metal price monitor
• Working groups: Machine tools, Woodworking machinery

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3477
email: baminger@fmti.at

Georg Matzner

• Welding technology
• Constuction Products Regulation
• Sustainability in the construction industry
• Standardization policy
• Sustainable financing & taxonomy
• Steel Construction Association (ÖSTV)
• Working group: Boiler Suppliers 

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3295
email: matzner@fmti.at

Michael Osobsky 

• Energy and climate policy (national & EU)
• Association Energy and Climate Protection

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3472
email: osobsky@fmti.at

Harald Rankl 

• Education - Projects
• www.metallbringts.at (apprenticeship)
• CE marking
• Standardization
• Technical training (apprenticeship/HTL/FH and university)
• Legal information
• Orgalim publications/information
• Price indexation
• Association of Building Services (VTGA)
• Working group: Industrial furnaces

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3479
email: rankl@fmti.at

Felicia Ranner 

• Energy and climate policy (national & EU)
• Association Energy and Climate Protection

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3472
email: ranner@fmti.at

Anton Resch 

• Metal construction
• Standardization
• Construction Products Regulation

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3444
email: resch@fmti.at

Christoph Slouka 

• R+T+I (research, technology, innovation)
• Digitization
• Association for Quality in Water Treatment Technology (GWT)

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3467
email: slouka@fmti.at

Bernhard Wagner 

• Collective wage agreements
• Labour law
• Legal employer policy
• Employee protection law

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3487
email: wagner@fmti.at

Ulrike Witz 

• Environmental regulation
• Circular economy
• Sustainability reporting
• Ecodesign, Digital Product Passport
• Revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive
• Chemicals legislation (PFAS)
• Waste legislation
• Water law
• Working group: Plastics and Rubber Machinery 

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3366
email: witz@fmti.at

Sabine Madl 

• Companies and Products Database
• Supply inquiries

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3763
email: madl@fmti.at

Michaela Popofsits 

• Companies and Products Database
• Supply inquiries

phone number: +43 (0) 5 90 900-3438
email: popofsits@fmti.at