Schumacher Packaging began operations at its new, corrugated packaging plant in Greven on June 30, 2014.
The site was completed in less than one year and costs €45 million (US$61.16 million).
With the new factory in Greven, the company aims to bring the production of corrugated cardboard packaging even closer to important sales areas such as North-West Germany, the Ruhr area, Benelux and Scandinavia.
The new plant has a corrugator and six processing machines on a factory area of 30,000 sqm.
There is also a high-bay warehouse with a capacity of 15,000 euro-pallets.
The 2.50 m wide corrugator from the firm BHS is equipped with two one-sided machines for the production of single or double fluted corrugated board.
Besides F-corrugation, it can also produce all common types of corrugations.
For further processing, Schumacher Packaging has invested in a multi-colour inliner from the firm Bobst, which can process sheets up to 2.80 m in width.
This is complemented by a two-color inliner with a working width of 2.40 m.
A six-colour flexo-printing machine and two flat-bed stamping machines, all from Bobst, as well as two folding/gluing machines complete the machinery outfit in Greven.
This allows the location to handle the entire production process under one roof: from the production of the corrugated board and the production of the packaging to the high-quality finishing facilities.
Finished packaging is then stored in the high-bay warehouse under ideal temperatures and humidity conditions.
“Some of the machines, such as the two inliners, are already running a two-shift operation”, says MD Bjoern Schumacher.
“In two to three years, we hope to achieve full utilization of this first construction phase, and to be able to run three shifts.”
“In the long term, we want to extend the Greven location even further, with a factory space of up to 100,000 sqm and 500 employees.”
“We have ensured an adjoining 35,000 sqm of building land in the FMO AirportPark.”
