Wifag polytype
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Friborg , Switzerland
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| Website | www.wifag-polytype.com |
The Swiss Wifag-Polytype Holding AG is an investment company for companies in the machine industry. It was the parent company of the traditional offset web printing machine manufacturer Wifag Maschinenfabrik AG from Bern. This was founded in Bern in 1904 as "WINKLER, FALLERT & Co". Wifag was hit hard by the structural crisis in the printing press industry at the beginning of the 21st century. First sales negotiations, including with manroland , failed and the printing press factory in Bern was sold to the "MALI Group" around Markus Liebherr in 2010 . He planned to start production of transmissions for tractors and off-road machines in the old Wifag factory halls, but after Liebherr's death in August 2010 these plans were dismantled and the company premises were finally shut down.
Today, Wifag-Polytype manufactures machines for the production of metal packaging, plastic tubes and for printing cups and offers services in the area of newspaper rotary machines (existing Wifag machines). The subsidiary "Polytype-Converting" was taken over by Jagenberg in 2016 . "Wifag Services", the part of the company for the maintenance of the Wifag machine base, was sold to the Bern-based investor group "CKP-Services AG" in 2018.
The Ursula Wirz Foundation has a majority stake.
Web links
- Change of name from "Maschinenfabrik WIFAG AG" to "WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG" (PDF file; 4 kB)
- Company archive WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
- Long-time Wifag main shareholder Dr. Ursula Wirz
- "The rise and fall of the Wifag AG machine factory"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wifag-Polytype: Group (English)
- ^ Jagenberg: Polytype-Converting
- ↑ Wifag- Polytype : CKP-Services AG takes the "Wifag Services" (English), accessed on September 4, 2018
- ↑ print.de: Wifag Services acts as an independent company, accessed on September 4, 2018
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '48.6 " N , 7 ° 27' 3.5" E ; CH1903: six hundred thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight / 201 381