OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF W & H TAICANG
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Customer magazine | Windmöller & Hölscher | volume 13 | autumn 2014 | issue 23 Our Position Added Value Innovation W & H is now complete supplier for FFS bagging lines NEWS FROM THE W & H GROUP W & H Machinery (Taicang) Co. Ltd. founded SUCCESS STORIES W & H sells 100th OPTIMEX Cartotecnica Veneta invests in HELIOSTAR S OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF W & H TAICANG

added value OUR MACHINE CONCEPTS PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE AND DIFFERENTIATED ANSWERS TO PRESSING QUESTIONS OF SOCIETY The W & H Management: ( l. to r. ) Peter Steinbeck, Dr. Jürgen Vutz and Theodor Determann Here is the 23rd edition of our EXTRA. With new themes, close to the markets, current developments and trends and close to you, our customers. We want to create more added value for you: More on orientation and information, more on solving skills and emotions, more expertise and more stories “behind the curtain”. This is what matters to us, because you want the greatest success for your...

eXtra autumn 2014 | issue 23 BreaKing neWs neWs From tHe W & H grouP Jingui Dai, Klaus Meyer, Peter Steinbeck, Michael Fischer and Dr. Jürgen Vutz ( l. to r.) touch the sphere to symbolically transfer their energy to the new company. Jingui Dai welcomes the guests. Managing Director Peter Steinbeck giving the inaugural address. The inauguration ceremony followed Chinese tradition. Windmoeller & HoelsCHer maCHinerY (taiCang) Co. ltd. Founded With effect from 1 January 2014, Windmöller & Hölscher has set up its own subsidiary in the Far East: The Windmoeller & Hoelscher Machinery (Taicang)...

W & H is noW ComPlete suPPlier For FFs Bagging lines Be it at the booth in Duesseldorf (photo left) or at the EXPO in Lengerich (photo middle), the new bagging line fascinates the audience. ARGON‘s special stretching technology convinces the trade visitors. THE INTEREST IN THE HIGH PERFORMANCE LINE IS HUGE The unveiling of our ‘surprise’ was a great success! At interpack in May this year, the world’s best known trade fair for the packaging industry, the well-kept secret was revealed: In the FFS segment W & H enters the market as a complete line supplier, offering a complete bagging line...

eXtra autumn 2014 | issue 23 neW develoPments For Printing and Converting neW vistaFleX CX in 2.2 m Print WidtH Excellent print quality, even at print speeds of up to 800m / min, and extremely fast job changeovers for large format prints through the innovative robotic handling system, VISTA-PORT, are the main unique selling points of the new VISTAFLEX CX, the latest model from the successful VISTFALEX series. The great advantages of the VISTAFLEX’s design concept over conventional sleeve machines become even more evident with the wide VISTAFLEX CX, with its maximum print width of 2.2m and...

suCCess stories CartoteCniCa veneta sPa invest in a Heliostar s For a long time the Italian rotogravure market was dominated by local manufacturers – a situation that has changed fundamentally in recent years. With the HELIOSTAR S, W & H have developed a modular rotogravure printing press, which has no less managed to convince the Italian rotogravure printers. In the last year alone, three machines were sold to leading packaging printers in Italy. Cartotecnica Veneta SpA decided to invest in an 11-colour HELIOSTAR S with inline lamination due to the technical and technological advantages....

eXtra autumn 2014 | issue 23 Printing // eXtrusion suCCess stories sHongai teCHnologies – neWComer in tHe West aFriCan PaCKaging industrY “We want to become market leader in the area of barrier and beverage packaging in Nigeria.” With this ambitious goal, the company Shongai Technologies, which belongs to the Sona Group, one of the biggest beverage packaging companies in Nigeria, was founded in 2012. By investing in the most modern machine technology made by Windmöller & Hölscher and by the development of new products which formerly had to be imported, the newcomer has since been setting...

success stories W & H SOLD 100th OPTIMEX TO POLYKAR / CANADA The success story of OPTIMEX continues! In autumn 2009, the 3-layer blown film line was introduced to the market as an inexpensive supplement to the already known VAREX blown film line. In early 2014 the 100th OPTIMEX was sold to the Canadian company Les Industries Polykar in Saint Laurent /  Quebec and will begin production in autumn this year. For Polykar it is the first machine from W & H. The company was founded in 1987 as a family business and, today, is one of the leading manufacturers of compostable waste bags for...

eXtra autumn 2014 | issue 23 suCCess stories alWaYs at tHe toP: ergis s. a. installs tHe First stretCH Film Winder, FilmatiC Ps In 2012 the ERGIS Group (Warsaw / Poland) became the first Polish company to invest in a W & H high performance system, FILMEX, with nano-layer technology for the production of stretch films. In early 2014 a second FILMEX with Cloeren Nanolayer-Feedblock is now in operation in a factory in Olawa. At the same time they received their new winder FILMATIC PS, specially developed for stretch film by W & H. So ERGIS S. A. is the first company in the world that has a...

suCCess stories The team at Indocement presses the start button of the new cement sack line. indoCement invests For tHe First time in a W & H Cement saCK line “It has always been our desire to have the latest W & H cement sack line in our factory”, a long cherished dream, revealed by Pieter Herbet, head of paper sack manufacturing, “because Windmöller & Hölscher has an excellent international reputation in the field of paper sack making machines.” In September last year this wish came true with the commissioning of a new cement sack line AM 8105 / AD 8300, with in-line printing, automation...