Four companies have joined forces within the PackSynergy network to form a new West-Southwest competence centre. Among other things, the new cluster offers joint market and customer support, mutual material and goods supply and packaging as a service.
The four companies Wepa Verpackungen, Adrians Papier and Kopp Verpackungssysteme from Germany and Coplax Verpackungen from Switzerland have established the new West-Southwest Competence Centre within the PackSynergy-network. The cluster networks an area from the major regions of Zurich/Basel and north-central Switzerland to Alsace, Luxembourg, parts of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Ruhr region. The new cluster offers companies in the target area packaging as a service, resilience, sustainability and integrated, holistic services through joint market and customer support, cross-border deliveries and project support as well as the mutual supply of materials and goods.
„Customers, manufacturers and retailers often ask themselves how they can optimise their packaging processes with individual, local support, but also implement supra-regional projects at several locations and benefit from the advantages of international structures at the same time. With the new West-Southwest competence centre within our European network, we have found a strong answer to this question.“ Thomas A. Baur, CEO of PackSynergy
Competence centre: optimising processes and reducing costs
As networked supply and service partners, Wepa Verpackungen, Adrians Papier, Kopp Verpackungssysteme and Coplax Verpackungen offer their customers unique expertise in solution-oriented border traffic with regional competence and local contacts via the new cluster, according to Baur. „The Cooperation leads to significant resilience in terms of delivery capability, It expands the room for manoeuvre and generates price advantages through joint action. At the same time, the members of the cluster and their customers continue to benefit fully from the transfer of knowledge and innovation work within our Europe-wide network through their integration into the PackSynergy network,“ says Thomas A. Baur.
„Keeping a constant supply of packaging material costs companies a lot of storage space and money. This can be avoided. With our just-in-time delivery service, companies can reduce storage capacity and free it up for production, for example. They also improve their liquidity and gain room for manoeuvre for successful investments in their own work area. It is therefore no coincidence that the trend is towards packaging as a service.“ Heico Berner-Dietzel, co-owner and managing director of Wepa Verpackungen
Resilience: ensuring delivery capability
„Many companies have faced the challenge of expanding their brick-and-mortar business to include e-commerce channels, and not just since coronavirus and lockdown. In terms of packaging, the main question is, how they can meet their needs even in situations of extremely high demand or in times of crumbling supply chains can. The cooperation with a large and strong network of B2B packaging wholesalers makes us resilient and guarantees the continuation of our own business operations,“ adds Dirk Dietzel, co-owner and Managing Director of Wepa Verpackungen.
From optional to mandatory: acting sustainably
„Sustainable packaging has become an essential part of the value chain, not only in B2C but also in B2B. What for a long time only applied to selected consumer goods is inexorably becoming a criterion for all product areas: Products with environmentally friendly packaging are specifically sought after, products without sustainable packaging are deliberately avoided. It is almost impossible to implement the increasing requirements as cost-neutrally as possible and without any loss of function or convenience without expert help. The requirements are too diverse and heterogeneous, and the range of apparent solutions is too confusing,“ says Roger Welti, co-owner and Managing Director of Coplax Verpackungen.
[infotext icon]The PackSynergy-network connects the markets in over 20 European countries with 21 member companies. The companies in the network offer packaging materials and packaging technology for industry, retail and catering at around 40 locations. At the same time, the association of PackSynergy members forms a knowledge pool and industry think tank in the extended network with suppliers and industry partners.SourcePackSynergy
