Siegwerk Celebrates 200 Years as a Family Owned Company
Siegwerk, a global providers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels, will be honoring its corporate roots this year by celebrating the beginning of the family business' journey in 1824, which – 200 years of evolution and numerous innovations later – has resulted in the company that Siegwerk is today.
“The history of the family business that led to the formation of Siegwerk is impressive in many aspects,” explained Dr. Nicolas Wiedmann, CEO at Siegwerk. “From the very beginning, there has been an excellent understanding of trends and the relevance of continuous transformation, which enabled the company to always adapt to the challenges of each era and strive for the right direction.” Initially established in 1824 as a retailer of manufactured goods, the German family-owned company entered the printing business very soon after its start. From the opening of a calico (cotton fabric) print shop through one of the first German illustration rotogravure print shops to the largest fully-automated ink production facility in Europe, the company has continuously expanded its printing expertise over two centuries, while becoming one of the most important printing ink producers in the world. With the founding of “Siegwerk Chemisches Laboratorium GmbH” in 1911, a company specialized on the production of gravure inks and other chemical products for the graphics industry, the foundation stone for today's company known as Siegwerk was finally laid.