The most recent
huge innovation
for Peikko was
launched this year,
when BOLDA® was
introduced.
In 2000, Peikko also entered the Spanish market, quickly gaining a credible market position.
Los Pedroches Precast Factory - Jaén, Andalucía, Spain, 2005.
and CE markings. The work around ETA
began in 2003, when Peikko started to
create standards for bolted column connections
and develop standardized procedures
to assess safe performance.
As new international market areas
were landed, Peikko’s position was further
solidifi ed. In 2005, Peikko column shoes
entered the Russian markets and in
2009, Peikko worked on its fi rst seismic
projects with customers in Turkey. At this
time, Peikko made its largest single R&D
investment as Peikko Designer® software
was launched. With this software, Peikko
wanted to make designers’ work as reliable
and easy as possible and give them some
room for creativity.
After years of hard work, Peikko
completed the pioneering development of
the ETA performance requirements and test
procedures for bolted column connections in
2010. Concurrently, the market was growing
as per usual, as Peikko entered the APAC
A huge amount of product testing, with everything
from concrete and fi re testing to seismic testing,
has been done in order to create the best
possible products. Seismic tests in Italy.
Peikko has grown into a successful
global company. Despite this success,
the main goal of Peikko remains ever the
same: to make its customers’ building
processes faster, safer, and easier.
Peikko’s R&D depends highly on the
customer needs and the strong culture of
listening and openness are always at the
heart of Peikko’s operations.
Today, Peikko operates in over 30
countries. The markets are growing
constantly and new Peikko innovations
are being introduced to meet the
customer’s needs. The most recent huge
innovation for Peikko was launched this
year, when BOLDA® Column Shoe was
introduced. With its stronger design and
elegant, more compact structure, it’s the
only ETA assessed column shoe for higher
loads in the world. Peikko continues to
defi ne the game with a twinkle in the eye
and as said – this is only the beginning. ●
and Chinese markets in 2011, and later on
established an offi ce in Singapore.
In 2013, Peikko reached a big goal:
the ETA was granted to bolted column
connections, which were soon followed
by performance-based CE markings.
Becoming the industry standard was
offi cially reality, since no other company
had been granted the ETA ever before.
But still, Peikko was looking forward –
there’s always room to improve.
FROM CHANGING TODAY TO
CHANGING THE FUTURE
Over the last 30 years, Peikko has
improved a lot about the design of their
column shoes. A huge amount of product
testing, with everything from concrete and
fi re testing to seismic testing, has been
done in order to create the best possible
products. In 2017, Peikko introduced the
fi rst energy-dissipating, seismic-proof
precast bolted column connection.
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