APPL group of companies
| Appl Holding GmbH & Co. KG group of companies
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1899 |
| Seat | Wemding , Bavaria |
| management | Markus Appl |
| Number of employees | 700 (2019) |
| sales | 180 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | Printing and finishing |
| Website | www.appl.de |
The Appl group of companies is a family-run printing and finishing company with headquarters in Wemding . With around 180 million euros in sales and 700 employees, 45 of whom are trainees, the Appl group is one of the largest printing companies in Germany. It has independent printing and binding locations in Wemding, Freising , Würzburg , and Ahrensburg .
history
With the takeover of the regional magazine Tagblatt for Wemding and Monheim in 1899, the Appl family began their activities in the printing industry. This magazine appeared until the end of the Second World War . In 1947, factory printing and the development of a typesetting printing plant began. The entry into sheet-fed offset printing took place in 1968. The Appl group of companies expanded this branch in 1978 with the takeover of Sellier Druck GmbH. Web offset printing began in Wemding six years later. This area was expanded with the takeover of Echter Druck GmbH in Würzburg in 1999 and Kuncke Druck in Ahrensburg in 2005. In 2005, Print.Forum GmbH was also taken over, and with it the entry into gravure printing . This area was enlarged in 2011 through the participation in Rose Druck GmbH. With the takeover of the bookbindery in Monheim (Bavaria), the Appl group of companies can cover the area of further processing from 2006 onwards. Digital printing machines have been available for the production of short runs since 2009 . Since 2010, a total of two managing directors have been responsible for the company, which has been under the umbrella of a holding company since 2011. In 2011, the Appl group of companies entered the B2C online book printing market.
Company structure and its products
The Appl group of companies consists of two operating companies at different locations throughout Germany. At appl Druck GmbH in Wemding, newspaper supplements, magazines, catalogs and telephone books are produced exclusively on web offset printing machines in special formats.
The focus at appl druck GmbH in Würzburg is web offset in A4 format.
Appl druck GmbH in Freising specializes in the processing of newspapers and magazines. In addition, the printed products are processed further on several saddle stitching and perfect binding systems, if desired personally addressed and sent to the customer.
At appl druck GmbH in Ahrensburg, sheetfed offset as well as web offset are produced. The main focus is on products such as envelopes, booklets and publishing products.
Aprinta Druck GmbH (headquartered in Wemding) deals with large-format sheet-fed offset printing as well as digital printing. The products manufactured include colored non-fiction books , guides and atlases in XXL format, illustrated books and hard-wearing school books . Aprinta druck GmbH is also a bookbinding company and produces thread-sewn brochures and hardcover books.
Technology of the different locations
The Appl group of companies owns 13 web offset printing machines. Appl Druck GmbH produces special, pocket and oversized A4 and DIN formats supplemented by special colors, inline processing and flat delivery.
In addition to web offset, the Appl. 7 sheet-fed offset printing machines in Wemding form one of the largest sheet-fed printing capacities in Europe . In 2002 the world's first large-format four-over-four perfecting press was installed.
With two machines in Wemding, digital printing meets requirements in the area of short runs.
The print products produced are processed further for the web offset area in Freising and for the sheet-fed offset area in Wemding. The cross-company prepress enables technical interactive action. In addition, a complex ERP system has been connecting the clients with one another since 2008 .
Environmental management
In addition to photovoltaic systems on the roofs of the company buildings and participation in the "Ökoprofit" environmental project, the Appl group of companies has had the following certificates since 2008:
- FSC and PEFC certification
- ISO 14001 certification: So far, it has been possible to avoid 350,000 kg of carbon dioxide and reduce fresh water consumption by 1575 m³.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates , figures, facts ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Journal of Deutscher Drucker , Issue 42, December 18, 2008, Web offset and gravure printing: the 20 largest companies, by Julia Schmidt
- ↑ Takeover at kuncke druck GmbH ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Participation in Rose Druck GmbH ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://shop.appl.de/
- ↑ aprinta Druck in Wemding ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FSC certification
