{"id":74117,"date":"2023-01-19T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=74117"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:13:56","slug":"marbach-100-jubilee-cutting-dies-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/marbach-100-jubilaeum-stanzformen-maschinen\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbach celebrates its 100th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1923, Karl Marbach Senior founded the Marbach company together with two partners. The three-man operation has since grown into an international company with 1,600 employees worldwide. The company from Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg can now look back on 100 years of history.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founded on 16 July 1923 Karl Marbach Senior<\/a> together with two partners, runs a mechanical workshop in Heilbronn. The most important products of the company were punching knives for the regional shoe industry<\/strong>. The company was founded in the crisis years after the First World War. Due to the global economic crisis, however, there were fewer and fewer customers from the shoe industry. As luck would have it, the Nupnau advertising materials factory in Heilbronn was looking for a regional supplier of steel rule cuts at this time. Karl Marbach Senior therefore began to deal with the production of steel strip cuts<\/strong>. This decision will prove to be very far-sighted.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Only a short time later, the Second World War brought another global crisis. In addition to steel rule dies for the advertising industry, Marbach also produced Tools for the sealing industry<\/strong>. That paid off: Because tools for the production of seals for engines, gearboxes and pumps were urgently needed. On 4 December 1944, the company building in F\u00fcgerstra\u00dfe was partially hit in an air raid and production was temporarily relocated to Unterheinriet. However, this makeshift facility was also destroyed in 1945. A temporary locksmith's workshop was set up from the remains of the factory in an old, disused cattle shed.<\/p>

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After the war, the company was relocated back to Heilbronn. There they had to start all over again. The The newly launched production initially comprised steel strip cuts for the engine and gasket industry, but increasingly also punching moulds<\/strong> for the advertising and packaging industry. In 1955, Karl Marbach Junior, the second generation, joined the company, bringing with him many new ideas. The first expansion of the Marbach company was its own department for thermoforming toolmaking in 1957, which finally became legally independent almost 30 years later.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1969, Karl Marbach Junior heard about a new, revolutionary cutting technology for the first time. At a symposium in England, he met S. Ray Miller Junior, the President of Atlas Steel Rule Dies Inc. from Elkhart (USA). This company was the first in the world to use a CO2<\/sub>-laser in cutting die production and Miller spoke on the subject of \u201eWood cutting with light\u201c. The two remained in contact and In 1972, Marbach finally invested in the first CNC-controlled CO2<\/sub>- Laser cutting system for cutting die production in Europe<\/strong>. The introduction of this technology was a quantum leap in diemaking and made Marbach the market leader in Europe, which the company was able to consolidate as innovation leader in the following years.\u00a0<\/p>