(L-R) John Woolley, business leader, PC Industries; Herman Gnuechtel, business leader, Web Printing Controls; Brent Becker, president and CEO, Baldwin; and Karl Fritchen, president, QuadTech
In a partnership that creates a vision and inspection print technology powerhouse, Baldwin Technology Company has acquired QuadTech.
With this partnership the process automation solutions, consumables and services provider adds technology and strategic locations across the Americas, Europe, China, Japan and India. Headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin (USA), QuadTech maintains a worldwide network of sales and service operations, designing and manufacturing control systems that help commercial, newspaper, packaging and publication gravure printers improve their performance and productivity.
Baldwin will strategically unite the new acquisition with two of its existing divisions-Web Printing Controls and PC Industries-creating a global platform that will operate as Baldwin Vision Systems.
Karl Fritchen, current QuadTech president, will lead the new segment. Mr Fritchen said, ‘From an international operations and market perspective, each party’s strengths are highly complementary. This is definitely a situation where we can accomplish much more together than we could have as independent companies.’
The resulting combination of businesses and technology will represent the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio available for print process automation, inspection and related services.
‘Together, we provide our customers an unmatched portfolio in commercial and newspaper automation, and I am very excited about the additional capabilities we will gain in the packaging markets.’ Brent Becker, president and CEO of Baldwin commented, ‘I fully expect that our combined global presence, coupled with a new tiered product offering, will position the company to further satisfy our customers’ needs in an even larger geographical area.’
QuadTech is Baldwin’s fifth acquisition since joining the BW Forsyth Partners family of companies in 2012, and the fourth completed in 2017.
‘This investment underscores our continued commitment to a strategy that blends organic and acquisition growth to enhance our global footprint, advance the technology and service we can deliver to our customers, and cultivate our unique culture of care and collaboration,’ said Kyle Chapman, founder and managing director of BW Forsyth Partners. ‘We will continue to support Baldwin’s strategy execution, as the team seeks opportunities to expand the company’s reach into new industries and new geographic markets, increasing solutions for customers.’
