Swisspearl

Swisspearl is a fiber cement cladding and building products manufacturer. Its legal name is Swisspearl Group AG, a family-owned Swiss company with headquarters in Niederurnen, Switzerland. The U.S. business operates as Swisspearl United States. The group has about 470 employees in Switzerland and roughly 2,300 worldwide. It reports that 50 percent of its material waste is recycled, and that selected products are Cradle to Cradle Certified Full Scope at the Bronze level, version 4.1.

The product range is divided into facade, build and garden groups. The library covers 16 facade and build products.

• Facade color lines: Carat, Vintago, Zenor, Reflex, Planea, Nobilis, Gravial, Terra and Avera.
• Facade authentic range: Patina Original NXT, Patina Rough NXT, Patina Inline NXT and Patina Structure NXT.
• Facade format lines: Largo.
• Facade systems: visible and invisible facade fasteners.
• Build: Windstopper Extreme, Windstopper Basic and Construction.
• Garden: planters and design elements.

The facade products are offered with fastening systems that can be visible or invisible. Windstopper Extreme and Windstopper Basic are listed under the build group, alongside Construction. The company’s facade lines are grouped by how they are named: the color lines carry individual product names such as Carat, Vintago and Zenor, while the Patina NXT products form the authentic range with four variants named Original, Rough, Inline and Structure.

Swisspearl has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide. Its country sites cover Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with a global site. Slovakia appears among its listed plant and office locations. The U.S. site gives a contact address of info@us.swisspearl.com and lists a Swiss telephone number, +41 55617 1160.

Fiber cement dates to 1894 in Vöcklabruck, Austria, where Ludwig Hatschek developed it. He registered his patent for the production of fiber cement roof panels in Austria in 1899. One of the first fiber cement production facilities was established in Niederurnen, Switzerland, in 1903, and the company has over 120 years of business history.

Swisspearl began replacing asbestos in its production in the 1980s. In 2022 Swisspearl Group AG took over Cembrit, a Danish fiber cement maker, which created a company of about 2,600 employees and made the group the number two fiber cement producer in Europe. Swisspearl Group AG operates the Eternit and Swisspearl brands.

The group remains a family business headquartered in Niederurnen, in the Swiss canton of Glarus.