07.01.10
Alfred-Keller-Strasse 55
53721 Siegburg, Germany
Phone: +49 2241-3040
Fax: +49 2241-304777
www.siegwerk.com
Sales: $1.08 billion (€774 million).
Major Products: Provider of solvent-based, water-based, energy curable and specialty liquid inks and coatings and related point-of-use services for the packaging and label industries. Product applications include flexible packaging, narrow web labels, tobacco and folding carton using flexographic, rotogravure and offset printing.
Key Personnel: Herbert Forker, CEO; Oliver Wittmann, CFO; Ralf Hildenbrand, president, Asia region; Dr. Ansgar Nonn, president NAFTA region; Hugo Noordhoek Hegt, president, packaging EMEA; Dan McDowell, president, global operations. Marketing director: Thomas Bastian, director, marketing flexible packaging EMEA. Technical directors: Gilles Catherin, vice president, global innovation network (GIN), Klaus Heger, vice president, technology flexible packaging EMEA.
Number of Employees: 3,900 in more than 30 country organizations.
Comments: Siegwerk reported that sales declined in 2009 to $1.08 billion, down 4.9 percent (FX-adjusted) from 2008), largely due to the decline in the publication gravure market.
“The shortfall was mainly driven by the closure of publication gravure in the U.S. and the general downturn in the publication gravure segment,” said Enno Urbeinz, manager, corporate communications and corporate spokesperson for Siegwerk.
Siegwerk’s main emphasis though is on the packaging market, which proved to be more resistant to the recession.
“Due to the fact that we are mainly engaged in the packaging ink business, we were able to keep the impact of the current downturn comparatively low,” Mr. Urbeinz noted. “The first five months of 2010 showed a recovery of the established markets like the U.S. and Germany, but we are not sure if this is already the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Packaging business in emerging markets grew, especially in Turkey, Russia, India, Poland and Argentina.
Siegwerk enjoyed numerous highlights in 2009. To name some examples, Siegwerk’s business unit Web Offset successfully started the new production line of the Aridas series for waterless coldset newsprinting. Better quality, less outlay and an important contribution to the protection of the environment – waterless newspaper printing offers all these advantages.
The pioneering achievement of the Siegwerk ink specialists lies in developing UV flexographic printing inks, UV screen printing inks and UV overprint lacquers for the specific radiation spectrum of LED light that cure fully despite the low energy and are a match for conventional UV inks in terms of drying speed.
Renewable 50+ is a strong new product. More than 50% of Siegwerk’s new developed Eco-overprint varnish 85-600405-6 is made up of renewable components. Thanks to the technological breakthrough, Siegwerk is confident that it will soon be able to offer environmentally conscious printers not only the overprint varnish, but also a full series of UV inks consisting largely of renewable raw materials.
The lowest possible odor at the same time as outstanding adhesion on synthetic materials – these were the demands for Siegwerk’s special low-odor ink Sicura Plast LO. Siegwerk’s new all-purpose ink series for commercial and packaging applications, Tempo Allegro permits ultra-fast printing of premium quality (around 18,000 sheets per hour). It is a 100% vegetable-based composition without any mineral oil compound and it is fully compatible with Siegwerk’s alcohol-free fountain solutions Aquamax series.
53721 Siegburg, Germany
Phone: +49 2241-3040
Fax: +49 2241-304777
www.siegwerk.com
Sales: $1.08 billion (€774 million).
Major Products: Provider of solvent-based, water-based, energy curable and specialty liquid inks and coatings and related point-of-use services for the packaging and label industries. Product applications include flexible packaging, narrow web labels, tobacco and folding carton using flexographic, rotogravure and offset printing.
Key Personnel: Herbert Forker, CEO; Oliver Wittmann, CFO; Ralf Hildenbrand, president, Asia region; Dr. Ansgar Nonn, president NAFTA region; Hugo Noordhoek Hegt, president, packaging EMEA; Dan McDowell, president, global operations. Marketing director: Thomas Bastian, director, marketing flexible packaging EMEA. Technical directors: Gilles Catherin, vice president, global innovation network (GIN), Klaus Heger, vice president, technology flexible packaging EMEA.
Number of Employees: 3,900 in more than 30 country organizations.
Comments: Siegwerk reported that sales declined in 2009 to $1.08 billion, down 4.9 percent (FX-adjusted) from 2008), largely due to the decline in the publication gravure market.
“The shortfall was mainly driven by the closure of publication gravure in the U.S. and the general downturn in the publication gravure segment,” said Enno Urbeinz, manager, corporate communications and corporate spokesperson for Siegwerk.
Siegwerk’s main emphasis though is on the packaging market, which proved to be more resistant to the recession.
“Due to the fact that we are mainly engaged in the packaging ink business, we were able to keep the impact of the current downturn comparatively low,” Mr. Urbeinz noted. “The first five months of 2010 showed a recovery of the established markets like the U.S. and Germany, but we are not sure if this is already the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Packaging business in emerging markets grew, especially in Turkey, Russia, India, Poland and Argentina.
Siegwerk enjoyed numerous highlights in 2009. To name some examples, Siegwerk’s business unit Web Offset successfully started the new production line of the Aridas series for waterless coldset newsprinting. Better quality, less outlay and an important contribution to the protection of the environment – waterless newspaper printing offers all these advantages.
The pioneering achievement of the Siegwerk ink specialists lies in developing UV flexographic printing inks, UV screen printing inks and UV overprint lacquers for the specific radiation spectrum of LED light that cure fully despite the low energy and are a match for conventional UV inks in terms of drying speed.
Renewable 50+ is a strong new product. More than 50% of Siegwerk’s new developed Eco-overprint varnish 85-600405-6 is made up of renewable components. Thanks to the technological breakthrough, Siegwerk is confident that it will soon be able to offer environmentally conscious printers not only the overprint varnish, but also a full series of UV inks consisting largely of renewable raw materials.
The lowest possible odor at the same time as outstanding adhesion on synthetic materials – these were the demands for Siegwerk’s special low-odor ink Sicura Plast LO. Siegwerk’s new all-purpose ink series for commercial and packaging applications, Tempo Allegro permits ultra-fast printing of premium quality (around 18,000 sheets per hour). It is a 100% vegetable-based composition without any mineral oil compound and it is fully compatible with Siegwerk’s alcohol-free fountain solutions Aquamax series.