About CFE

Construction Fixings Europe (CFE) represents leading European manufacturers of

CFE represents companies of all sizes: from small family businesses and SMEs up to larger companies:

  • 50% of CFE members have less than 50 employees
  • 39% of CFE members have less than 250 employees.

CFE member companies are located in Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland and UK.

Most of the companies hold one or more ETAs for their anchors.

Benefits by synergies:

Synergies arise from the combination of the broad knowledge and the ressources of bigger companies with the specific input and product know how of SMEs.

CFE members stand for:

  • Research, development and manufacturing in Europe.
  • Innovative and safe construction fixing products.
  • Reliable CE-marking based on state-of-the-art ETAs.
  • World-wide harmonisation of assessment methods (USA, China, Australia …).
  • Correct use of CE marking and references to ETAs in advertising, defined in a Code of Conduct.
  • Levelled playing field for European manufacturers of all sizes.
  • Short time-to-market for innovative products with new ETAs under fulfilment of all legal requirements for CE marking.
  • Robust products and user-friendly installation instructions to prevent installation failures.

CFE experts represent the interests of CFE members in the following bodies:

CFE is a sub-association of the European Tool Committee (CEO).

Become a member of CFE!

Are you an European manufacturer of metal, plastic or bonded anchors, concrete screws or drill bits for concrete and masonry?

Do you support our values and positions?

Then you are welcome to join CFE!

The subscription level depends of the European sales of anchors and/or drill bits.

For further details, you are kindly advised to contact us.