BW Papersystems Hamburg

BW Papersystems Hamburg GmbH is a German manufacturing company based in Wedel. It supplies machinery for the paper manufacturing and converting industries.

BW Papersystems Hamburg
TypeGmbH
IndustryMechanical engineering
Founded1866
HeadquartersWedel, Germany
Key people
Olaf Dreger, Managing Director
Number of employees
approx. 180 (status: 2022)
ParentBarry-Wehmiller Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.bwpapersystems.com

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]

New generation 16 pocket cut-size sheeter including dual packaging line, installed at Portucel Soporcel Group in Setùbal, Portugal

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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. BW Papersystems Hamburg GmbH: Exercise Books since 1866 Archived 2017-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, www.nordmetall.de, 06. September 2016
  4. BW Papersystems acquires QUESTEC technology,www.packagingnewsletter.com, 23. March 2020
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