Kombinat Polygraph Werner Lamberz

The collective combine Polygraph Werner Lamberz was an industrial kombinat with headquarters and headquarters of Kombinat line in Leipzig . It comprised eight state- owned companies with over 40 parts of the paper-processing mechanical engineering industry throughout the GDR . The total number of employees was around 16,000.

The combine was founded in 1970 as the successor to VVB Polygraph. In 1979 it was named after the late SED politburo member Werner Lamberz .

The parent company of the combine was VEB Leipziger Buchbindereimaschinenwerke (LBW), which was created in 1960 from the merger of the two VEB Buchbindereimaschinenwerk Leipzig (formerly Karl Krause ) and VEB Falz- und Heftmaschinenwerk Leipzig (formerly Gebrüder Brehmer ). Other important companies were VEB Planeta Radebeul , VEB Plamag Plauen , VEB Kama (cardboard packaging machines ) Dresden and VEB Druckmaschinenwerke Leipzig .

The Polygraph Export GmbH in Berlin was responsible for goods Combine foreign trade operation . In the 1980s, approximately 50% of shopping bags in the United States were printed on Polygraph printing machines.

After reunification , the combine was dissolved in 1990 and the individual companies were privatized. The most important companies were taken over by the West German industry leaders: The former parent company was the Leipzig production site of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG until its final closure in May 2015. Plamag Maschinenbau Plauen was bought by the MAN Roland Group and Planeta Radebeul became part of Koenig & Bauer AG Würzburg.

Archives of the Kombinat can be found as inventory 20812 VEB Kombinat Polygraph Werner Lamberz, Leipzig, in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig.