Ferrostaal ANZ managing director Carston Wendler has acquired the business, rechristening the supplier Print & Pack, which it was named some twenty years ago.
Wendler has taken over Ferrostaal alongside a German sleeping partner. It is now officially known as Print & Pack across its operations in Australia and New Zealand.
According to Wendler, the buy-out will result is a tighter operation serving the local market and says the Print & Pack name is a reflection of the group’s main functions.
“The previous owner MPC was looking to divest some of its more remote operations, it is a great opportunity for myself and the team here to be able to provide an even better, more nimble service to the local market,” says Wendler.
“I wanted a name that reflected our core activities, that paid homage to our long tradition, that people in the industry remember as a business with high standards, and because that is the company I started with.”
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Wendler joined the business in 1996 and climbed his way up to become managing director in 2013. Since its inception in 1980 as Craven Engineering, the company has been renamed half a dozen times under different owners. It was long associated with ManRoland but has bene supplying Komori presses in more recent times. It also supplies Bobst, Morgana, Kolbus and MBO amongst other developers.
For printers in Australia serviced by Print & Pack, Wendler says the buy-out means a superior ability to bring a wider range of solutions to the market.
“On the one hand the same high levels of service will remain, but on the other it means that we have greater flexibility as we are not part of a bigger organisation,” adds Wendler.
“As Print & Pack is not owned by a press manufacturer or any other manufacturer it means we are free to bring the best solutions to the market, we can pick and choose, and there are not many supply side companies in that position.”
Print & Pack now employs 25 staff with service engineers operating in every capital city in Australia.
Wendler says, “I believe in having our own engineers rather than contracting third parties, it means the engineers are specialists in our equipment, and they develop relationships with the printers, understanding them.”
Wendler says Print & Pack will not be restricted to the commercial print and folding cartons industries. “We are already strong in corrugated and flexibles and this will continue,” he adds
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