What sets IBF apart
For more than three decades, IBF has stood for experience, specialist expertise and a close relationships with our customers. What began as an idea has grown into a company with extensive expertise in CE marking, risk assessment and product safety.
One thing, however, has remained unchanged: we want to help our clients manage their responsibilities independently, safely and efficiently. Helping people to help themselves is therefore a central principle of our work.
We focus on long-term partnerships, open communication and practical knowledge.After all, good solutions must not only be technically sound – above all, they must work in our customers’ everyday operations
Back then, Helmut Frick founded IBF with the aim of providing practical support to companies in meeting machine safety and CE marking requirements through seminars and software.
Over three decades, this idea has grown into an internationally active company. Originally established in the German-speaking markets, the CE software Safexpert has developed into the international market leader and the industry standard for CE marking.
Every year, we share our specialist knowledge on CE marking, risk assessment, standards and product safety with thousands of designers worldwide through a wide range of seminars and training courses – from small and medium-sized machinery, plant and control system manufacturers right through to multinational corporations.
Today, IBF is led by the second generation of the family: Christian Frick and Johannes Windeler-Frick. Together with an experienced and steadily growing team, they combine the experience and values of past decades with new ideas and the further development of the company.
Managing Directors Johannes Windeler‑Frick & Christian Frick
Our head office is in Vils, Tyrol – the place where IBF was founded.
Today, we have branches in Stuttgart, Zurich and Kempten, covering the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
Our work thrives on personal interaction and direct communication – whether on site with our clients, at our own offices, or just as flexibly through remote collaboration.
We work with specialist, highly competent partners to ensure direct contact with customers in individual countries. They have in-depth knowledge of the local markets and provide regional support to our customers.
In this way, we combine our long-standing expertise with a personal connection to our customers – in a personalised, practical and international manner.
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Italy
Belgium
Poland
About our partners
Safexpet customers
Seminar customers