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In the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove, Ill., is a family-owned independent sheet plant that combines old-fashioned values with new cutting-edge technology to provide customers with innovative corrugated packaging and displays. Forest Packaging was founded 53 years ago in Forest Park, Ill., thus the name “Forest” Packaging, and is owned and operated by two generations of the Kula family.

How a manufacturer of paper-based office material, operating its converting line mainly with blind or visually impaired employees, is able to combine the highest operational safety requirements with an impressive increase in output, reliability, and product quality.

The online print shop SAXOPRINT based in Dresden has recorded double-digit sales growth in recent years, and last year generated sales of over EUR 100 million in the area of commercial online printing as part of the CEWE Group.

India. A rapidly growing economy, a democracy and soon the most populous country in the world!

In 2012, a BW Papersystems employee went into well-deserved retirement. Since Marquip's early beginnings, Dennis Rodewald had worked for the company in various positions, from designer to engineering manager, for a total of 44 years.

In 2000, when Marquip was bought by Barry-Wehmiller the company counted an installed base of 6,457 machines.

1998 was another outstanding year for Marquip. That year, the company launched a glue machine and a singlefacer and was now able to offer its customers a full corrugator line.

In the late 1970s, one of Marquip’s integrated U.S. customers asked them to build a machine for their plant in France.

1976 was a pivotal year as it marked Marquip’s transition from a custom machine supplier for the building products industry to a corrugator machine company.

Congratulations to the 50th anniversary of Marquip! BW Papersystems has taken this opportunity to browse the company archives, to study old articles and to interview many contemporary witnesses to find out as much as possible about the past 50 years. The result is an exciting journey through time with many insightful information on Marquip, its ups and downs, its innovations and products, the company’s philosophy and much more.