Our history
The three letters "IFF" represent a long tradition: more than 60 years of engineering services made in Leipzig
1956 - Foundation of the Institut für Fördertechnik (IFF, Materials Handling Institute) in Leipzig
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1958
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1979 - 1990 - Research centre of the Schwermaschinenbaukombinat TAKRAF (Heavy Machinery Combine TAKRAF)
1990 - 1992 - TAKRAF IFF GmbH, Institut für Fördertechnik und Fertigungsprozessgestaltung (Institute for Materials Handling and Production Engineering)
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from November 1992 - Privatization and renaming as IFF Engineering & Consulting GmbH after management buy-out/buy-in
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