Thimm Verpackung is building a corrugated cardboard plants in Europe between Nuremberg and Munich.
The plant is being built on a 90,000 square metre site near the Holledau motorway interchange. Operations are scheduled to start in early 2017.The investment for the first expansion stage amounts to around 60 million EUR. Around 150 people will be employed at the site in the medium-term.
The new Thimm Verpackung plant will be equipped with state-of-the-art machinery. This will include a corrugator, rotary die cutters, flat bed die cutters, flexo folder gluers and folder gluers. At this site the company will produce corrugated cardboard sales and transportation packaging for both food and non-food customers in Southern Germany and the adjacent export markets. The product portfolio will include glued packaging as well as manually and mechanically stamped blanks.
Within the structure of the existing corrugated cardboard plants, “Holledau” will ease the pressure on the Thimm plants in Alzey (Rhineland-Palatinate) and in Všetaty (Czech Republic). Existing capacity will also be transferred from the Lohhof/ Unterschleißheim site (Bavaria). The Wolnzach site will replace the Thimm Verpackung plant in Lohhof. Therefore good capacity utilisation is expected from the very beginning. Further organic growth is also possible depending on market requirements.
The new plant will be able to process the full bandwidth of Thimm Group’s printing competence which ranges from flexo-preprint processes (ThimmColor) and digital preprint (ThimmColor digital) to offset and flexo direct printing.