History

1959 | Founding of the engineering firm G. Trombik by Georg Trombik, graduate engineer ETH. From the outset, the company focused on structural dynamics, particularly the mounting of machine foundations. Georg Trombik developed and optimised the foundations, including spring foundations.

1962 | Commissioning of the first large spring foundation in Holland. Even at this early stage, the static and dynamic design, including the manufacture and delivery of the spring elements, was carried out as a complete solution, and today the company still offers a comprehensive range of high-precision spring elements for high and extremely high loads in combination with machine foundation design.

1979 | Peter G. Trombik, graduate engineer ETH/SIA/USIC, joins the company. In addition to general structural dynamics and the design and calculation of machine foundations, Peter Trombik supervised and expanded the areas of vibration and noise phenomena of all kinds, as well as building acoustics and building physics.

1982 | Conversion of the company into a public limited company, Trombik Engineers Ltd., based in Zurich.

1985 | Peter G. Trombik takes over management of the company following the death of the senior partner. The company continues to make interesting contributions with its specialist presentations, particularly in the areas of structural dynamics, vibrations/structure-borne noise, machine foundations and elastic bearings, and thus maintains an active membership in the professional associations SGEB, SGA-SSA and suisse.ing.

1998 | ISO certification: Since then, all services have been subject to a process-oriented quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001. This also includes the extensive range of top-quality measuring equipment for vibration, noise and structure-borne sound measurements, for building dynamics measurement campaigns (such as determining structural natural frequencies and building dynamics stiffnesses), and for determining building acoustic parameters (including airborne and impact sound insulation measurements in accordance with SIA-181).

2000 | Pascal Fleischer, graduate engineer MSc/ETH/HTL/SIA, joins the company. In the new millennium, the company achieved success in the contemporary and practical application and implementation of building dynamics expertise: Further development of machine foundations, including a “reinforced concrete drawer” for moving the generator, applications of permanent steel formwork for process-optimised construction of machine foundations, design and dimensioning of elastic building bearings, design and reinforcement of dynamically highly stressed supporting structures, and much more.

2011 | Peter G. Trombik receives the Structural Dynamics Innovation Award from the Foundation for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. He, and thus indirectly his father Georg Trombik, receives the award ‘in recognition of outstanding services through practice-oriented solutions in structural dynamics for machine foundations, vibrations and elastic bearings of all kinds’ (see also article TEC21, 2011).

2013 | Pascal Fleischer takes over as managing director, having already become a member of the management board in 2006. In the following years, he focuses on the field of structural dynamics, the expansion of the environmental division EKS (vibrations/structure-borne noise in rail-bound transport) and also on classic civil engineering. As specialists, they successfully worked on complex structural dynamics support structures, further developed the design and dimensioning of elastic building bearings, and gained a foothold in laboratory construction as vibration experts.

2015 | Takeover of the company by Pascal Fleischer following the death of Peter G. Trombik.

2021 | ISO certification: revision and recertification according to ISO 9001:2015.