BW Papersystems Hamburg
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| Company type | GmbH |
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| Industry | Mechanical engineering |
| Founded | 1866 |
| Headquarters | Wedel, Germany |
Key people | Jan Friedrichs, Managing Director |
Number of employees | approx. 180 (status: 2019) |
| Parent | Barry-Wehmiller  |
| Website | www.bwpapersystems.com |
BW Papersystems Hamburg GmbH is a German manufacturing company based in Wedel. It supplies machinery for the paper manufacturing and converting industries.
The company is one of the four German locations of BW Papersystems,a division of the St. Louis, MO based Barry-Wehmiller group of companies. BW Papersystems Hamburg was founded in 1866 (as E.C.H. Will GmbH). Former E.C.H. Will and its sister companies Kugler-Womako GmbH and Sheboygan, WI based Pemco Inc. (including also SHM and Wrapmatic brands) became part of BW Papersystems in 2014, joining MarquipWardUnited Inc.[1]
Today's brand name 'WillPemcoBielomatik' was established 2015 as a combination of the brands E.C.H. Will, Pemco and the paper processing division of bielomatik Leuze GmbH + Co. KG.[2]
In 2016, BW Papersystems Hamburg celebrated the 150th anniversary of its original brand E.C.H. Will.[3]
In 2018, the company acquired the rotary cross cutting technology from the Germany based firm Questec, for the converting of very light and thin paper and film.[4]
Products and services
The portfolio of the brand WillPemcoBielomatik includes cut-size sheeters and complete packaging lines for the production of communication paper (2-16 pockets), folio-size sheeting machines for paper and cardboard, ream wrapper for large paper sheets, converting lines for the production of exercise books and ruled and un-ruled layers as well as solutions for the industrial production of digitally printed books.
References
- ^ MarquipWardUnited establishes BW Papersystems, acquiring operations of E.C.H. Will, Pemco and Kugler-Womakoo, www.marquipwardunited.com, 25. Juli 2014
- ^ Barry-Wehmiller acquires Bielomatik's paper processing product line Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, www.risiinfo.com Archived 2006-05-25 at the Wayback Machine, 06. Oktober 2015
- ^ BW Papersystems Hamburg GmbH: Exercise Books since 1866, www.nordmetall.de, 06. September 2016
- ^ BW Papersystems acquires QUESTEC technology,www.packagingnewsletter.com, 23. March 2020