FESI – European Federation of Associations of Insulation Contractors

New President of FESI

Dear members of FESI,
It is an extraordinary honor for me to welcome you as the new president of the association. I’m now in service industry since 2009, working for Bilfinger Industrial Services, XERVON Instandhaltung in different management positions and since 2017 the CTO of KAEFER group. I started my career 1995 as young Engineer in BASF group, including working almost 4 years in Libya as technical director of a large oil and gas facility, I can claim “I had the honor to work with different cultures and working environments like in Libya, China, Mexico, India and UAE, and I had to master very interesting and different challenges”.
During my years with Bilfinger, I was ca. 7 months seconded to Abu Dhabi. As I was asked by my Boss at this time Dr. Rudolf Jürcke, to step into a not well running big insulation (Hot and Acoustic) project, including scaffolding. With at peak of ca. 300 blue collar on site, we faced all what a challenging insulation project could teach you as the site director, but with my team we finally succeed.
By heart I learned in all these - meantime almost 30 – years: motivated and skilled blue collar workers, are one of the major success criteria for anything a manager can possible dream of. Without motivated and trained colleagues nothing really works. To create a collaborative team spirit, but hard working on goals, was always my guiding light. Therefore: you can count on me that I will try to put “all of me” into this role as the new FESI President.

Well layout by Rudolf, a particular focus in the coming years will be on employee qualification, as we firmly believe that well-trained and motivated employees are at the heart of every successful branch or company.

We are also endeavoring to grow closer together at a European level in order to master the challenges of the future together. The recruitment of new members and close and successful cooperation within the association are also of the upmost importance in order to achieve our goals and further advance our industry.

I look forward to working with you on these important issues and I’m confident that we will achieve great success through our combined efforts.

It is therefore with great pleasure, that I look forward to our next FESI association meeting in Gdansk at the beginning of October 2024 and look forward to a lively participation and exciting discussions.

Thomas-Peter Wilk
President

Who we are

FESI is the information, activity and representative platform for European companies active in the insulation business.

Actually, FESI members represent 18 countries with about 1000 contractor companies and more than 40.000 employees.
Insulation work is executed in thermal, acoustic and fire protection of air channels, pipes, vessels, tanks, ships, buildings and other industrial equipment. The represented contractors are busy for the HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) sector and in the industrial insulation for power- petrochemical-, chemical- or other production plants.

The role, strategy and targets of FESI:

• Information platform to national associations and their members in all issues of products, tools, training, and application,
• Promote innovations in technical and working standards
• Assist information exchange about level of training, education, and qualification
• Support networking and communication between the national associations
• Organize and run an attractive European championship for the insulation handcraft
• Support lobby work to reduce energy waste and CO2 emission, which can be achieved by more and better insulation

Following the above described role and strategy this webside provides information to interesting companies, partners, clients and of course to our members and everybody busy in the insulation industry. For questions, please be invited to contact our secretary (see menu point).