Company Timeline

We have introduced a new logo, which incorporates the colors of our three product groups  GEO5,  FIN EC,  TRUSS4.

We took over Altap, a well-known supplier of the Salamander software. This acquisition gave us an experienced development team for file and document management.

Over 30 participants from 25 companies worldwide gathered in the Pyramida Hotel. The meeting featured selected talks from geotechnical engineers and developers from Fine company.

Fine is looking back at 25 years of success. More than 4000 satisfied customers in 120 countries all over the world. Our software is available in 17 language localizations and is supported by more than 50 local dealers.

The 4^thDealers’ Meeting was attended by 15 dealers from all over the world. 

An Argentina-based branch office was founded to support local customers and dealers in the region.

A new version of structural engineering software according to Eurocodes was release.

The first Dealers’ Meeting took place in our new Prague office in 2006. We met our worldwide dealers from the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, Philippines, Hungary etc.

The new corporate identity of Fine software was introduced along with the launch of a new website. Web-marketing activities were also supported by our new Online Shop.

The first international dealers were established in Poland, Hungary, India, United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia.

The tradition of “Fine Roast Pig&Beer” weekends started. All employees and their families are brought together every year.

Fine presented its software on exhibitions in the Czech Republic (this photo is from ForArch). The first colored marketing handouts were introduced as well!

A partnership was established with Bova Březnice, a Czech producer of steel fasteners for timber structures, along with the release of TRUSS software for the analysis of timber roof structures. The complex technology for manufacturing timber structures assembled with punched metal plate fasteners was named Bova-Nail.

The company Fine was registered in February 1991 by Jiri Laurin and Milos Vodolan.

Programs for retaining wall and spread footing analysis were released. The software was available in Czech language and used the Czechoslovak CSN standards.

FIN software for structural analysis (steel, timber and concrete) was developed in cooperation with the Faculty of Civil Engineering of CTU in Prague.