BW Papersystems Hamburg
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Company type | GmbH |
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Industry | Mechanical engineering |
Founded | 1866 |
Headquarters | Wedel, Germany |
Key people | Olaf Dreger, Managing Director |
Number of employees | approx. 180 (status: 2022) |
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]
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Products and services
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ MarquipWardUnited establishes BW Papersystems, acquiring operations of E.C.H. Will, Pemco and Kugler-Womakoo Archived 2014-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, 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 Archived 2017-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, www.nordmetall.de, 06. September 2016
- ^ BW Papersystems acquires QUESTEC technology,www.packagingnewsletter.com, 23. March 2020