Fabet

Up to 42 m long prestressed-concrete bridge girders from Kielce, Poland

Polish company Fabet ranks among the largest precast businesses in the country. It produces foundations, floors and walls, prestressed-concrete girders, beams, stairs, elevators, balconies and many other structural precast elements.

The list of references of Przedsie˛  biorstwo Elementów Budowlanych Fabet S. A. is impressive: be it complete noise-protection wall systems along the Wrocław highway that include a custom soundproofing layer to reduce noise by 8 dB, columns, girders and floor and wall units for building construction, wide-span structural elements for bridge construction, various elements of the Warsaw National Stadium, or large-scale parking facilities for up to 1,500 cars: the manufacturer based in Kielce, Poland, provides its customers with almost any type of structural precast element.

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