BEIL takes over Berth

BEIL Registersysteme GmbH expands its printing plate processing product portfolio

(PresseBox) Abensberg, 05.03.2010, As of January 1, 2010 BEIL Registersysteme GmbH of Abensberg, the company offering the broadest range of products for printing plate punches and benders for sheet and roll offset printers, security and legend printing, has retroactively taken over Berth Maschinenbau GmbH in Gladenbach. Founded in 1947, Berth is known as a leading manufacturer of printing plate processing machines for job and newspaper printing. With this take-over, BEIL Registersysteme GmbH became an all-round printing plate punch and bender supplier for all print segments. As all key Berth employees will remain with the company, the take-over will have no negative side effects for Berth’s customers.

“With this take-over BEIL can offer all the automated printing plate processing levels from a single source,” explain Günter Beil and Stefan Kreitczick, the Managing Directors of BEIL Registersysteme GmbH. “We are delighted that the key employees of Berth, and therefore also their expert know-how, will stay with the company.”

The current Managing Director of Berth Maschinenbau GmbH, Christoph Thielmann, will take the future lead over BEIL Gruppe’s complete design engineering in Abensberg. In addition to managing the continued development of printing plate processing machines, Christoph Thielmann’s principal focus will be on the development of an innovative printing plate handling and transport system. In this particular field BEIL has been Koenig & Bauer AG’s official technology partner since the end of last year. An additional task for the new engineering director and his team will be customer-specific special solutions.

BEIL Registersysteme GmbH in Abensberg and Berth Maschinenbau GmbH in Gladenbach, both owner-managed companies, have worked together closely over many years. Since the beginning of 2008 BEIL was responsible for the worldwide sales or Berth products, and also from a technical point of view the companies joined forces on a number of development projects.

Despite the challenging market, last year BEIL Gruppe succeeded in selling several fully automated printing plate processing installations on both national and international markets with a high level of customer satisfaction. For this year a number of projects are already in the pipeline. In line with its global sales and marketing activities BEIL will be present at the IPEX in Birmingham (18th to 25th of May 2010, Hall 6, Stand D559).

For a maximum of 3.000 mm plate width and a throughput of up to 350 plates per hour, the punching and bending machines of BEIL Gruppe guarantee its customers the required tolerances for radii and angles, as well as parallelism.

More information can be found on the company website: http://www.beil-group.com.

<<Company Profile Berth Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG>>
Built on the foundations of an existing printing business, the family-run company Berth Maschinenbau GmbH, is now managed by the family’s third generation. The company founder, Heinrich Berth, developed a system that enabled printing plates to be quickly changed and accurately positioned manually. For this system Heinrich Berth held a patent and laid the corner stone for a modern company.

About BEIL Registersysteme GmbH

Since 1981, BEIL Registersysteme GmbH is the reliable system partner for leading printing machine manufacturers and quality-oriented printing companies when it comes to punching and bending of printing plates. Regardless if hand-operated or fully-automatic – the ISO-9001 certified company has optimal and affordable solutions for all requirements.

The headquarters of the company is located in the Lower Bavarian metropolis Abensberg, about 30 km south of the old imperial town Regensburg. Round 65 employees work on a 6,500 square metres production site with more than 70 state-of-the-art manufacturing machines and processing centres. Other round 30 staff members are employed in foreign subsidiaries.

The owner-operated company exports about 90% of its products to more than 185 countries.

To BEIL, sustainability is not just a matter of empty words. Not only does this company use material, energy and resources reliably, the earnings also remain in the company enabling further investments and securing the place of employment in the long run. It is BEIL’s defined goal to receive the ISO 14001 certification (environment management) by 2010.

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