50 years of 'Enthusiasm meets technology.' With this motto, SIMON PROtec celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday, 20 February. In 1976, Peter Simon and Heinz Stöhr, both from Passau, founded FERMO GmbH in Pullach near Munich, which is now known as SIMON PROtec. To celebrate this occasion properly, numerous guests of honour, partners, customers, s...

Another prestigious project for our company! SIMON PROtec is supplying a total of almost 8,000 chain actuators, fittings and control units for Hefei Xinqiao Airport in the metropolis of Hefei, located in eastern China with over 9 million inhabitants. Spread over three construction phases, the first actuators for Terminal 1 left our production for t...

On 23 and 24 September, we opened our doors for our in-house trade fair, SIMON Innovation. The event offered a varied programme that included both exciting presentations and practical workshops. Participants could gain fascinating insights into the latest developments and innovations at our company and engage in intensive discussions with our exper...

Impressions from the company holiday on August 29, 2025 To mark the 30th anniversary of SIMON PROtec Systems AG, our Swiss colleagues paid us a two-day visit to Passau. For such an anniversary, we put together a program befitting the occasion. Since there is a real geological gem not far from Passau—the only graphite mine in the whole of Germa...

BAU - the largest international trade fair for the construction industry - opened its doors from 13 to 17 January 2025. Despite being shortened by one day, around 180,000 visitors gathered in the Munich exhibition halls to marvel at the innovations presented by over 2,230 exhibitors from 58 countries. Our fire protection experts presented the lates...

At SIMON PROtec, we have always put great emphasis on social commitment and charitable work. In order to fulfil our social responsibility, we have been involved in various social projects for many years and have supported charitable institutions and associations out of fundamental conviction. Therefore, we are particularly proud that we were invite...

After a four-year break, our international sales partner meeting took place again from 24 to 26 July 2024. A total of 18 partners from 11 European and Asian countries gathered in Pullman City to strengthen cooperation and toast the long-standing partnerships in the scenery of the Wild West. The meeting was embedded in an exciting and diverse progra...

Window automation "Made in Passau" for one of the largest cultural projects in the Far East: SIMON PROtec supplies 1083 folding arms for a total of 578 front windows for the "Zayed National Museum" building project in Abu Dhabi, which are distributed across five different building wings.The Zayed National Museum is designed to commemorate the histo...

After a break of more than four years, the world's leading trade fair BAU took place again this year. From 17 to 22 April 2023, 2,260 exhibitors from 49 countries presented their innovations in the 18 halls of Messe München. Our experts too presented our numerous product innovations from actuator and control technology, as well as textile fire prot...

The European Construction Products Regulation (CPR) prescribes uniform EU-wide testing standards for construction products. Last year, the European Commission presented a new draft. This draft is intended to make the regulation fit for the transition to a green and digital economy. The proposed amendments also have an impact on SIMON PROtec and the...