D – The Seufert transparent packaging company is celebrating an anniversary: The company is looking back on 25 successful years. On March 1st, 1997 twelve in-house employees purchased Seufert Verpackungen GmbH, which had gone bankrupt. “All of us twelve employees took a risk and invested our personal savings. And above all: We stood together resolutely,” recalled Günther Burkardt, one of the twelve employees and the then Managing Director of Seufert.

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The head office of Seufert in Rodgau.

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The Seufert Directors: Thomas Pfaff (l) und Thiemo Burkardt.

The company started out with 50 employees, antiquated machines and a major investor from France. In 2011, the company terminated its cooperation with the French investor. The company has been run by Thiemo Burkardt and Thomas Pfaff for 15 years. Today, according to own accounts, Seufert has over 90 employees and boasting modern machinery is one of the European market leaders for plastic sales packaging. The development departments, offset and screen-printing shops, punching and adhesive departments are all located under one roof.

The Transparent Folding Box is one of the core products of the specialists for sales-promoting packaging solutions. Furthermore, together with its partner plant in Wolfen, the company developed the plastic material, ECO-R-PET, which is made to 100% from waste plastic. According to company accounts, over the past 25 years, the firm has quadrupled its turnover.

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