“The service from Siegwerk is excellent. Siegwerk helps us when we develop new products and offers us excellent technical support.”
Yu Zhi Kang, Director and General ManagerShanghai Tobacco (China)
The sun never sets on the Siegwerk world. From China and India to the Western USA, from Scandinavia to South Africa and Argentina, our staff are busy around the clock in the interests of their customers.
Wherever they come from, wherever they work, whatever their name, they all have one thing in common – they are part of a successful, professionally run, family-owned company. They are “Siegwerkers”.
They belong to a company with a long and successful tradition, founded in 1830 as a fabric printing works. It was printing know-how and competence that allowed this former “calico factory” to flourish into an international manufacturer of printing inks. What has remained are the values of a family enterprise: independence and goal orientation, flexibility and competence, commitment and reliability.
For the sixth generation in succession, the company’s shares have remained in the ownership of one and the same family. This creates a sense of identity. And it guarantees long-term and lasting business policies.
That’s why there is no need for long explanations to make new members of staff understand what is expected of them. They sense the team atmosphere after only a few days. And they simply absorb the “Siegwerk Spirit” without anyone explicitly having to point it out to them.
The company’s Ink, Heart & Soul philosophy puts into words what has always been there. Inks that are developed with heart and soul and in close cooperation with the customers in whose printing presses they are put to use.
And yet there is so much more behind it all, so much more that contributes towards making the joint success of Siegwerk, its staff, and its customers possible: practice-oriented expertise, extraordinary flexibility, highly competent consulting, and the ability to think and act ahead. So that Siegwerk knows today what its customers will expect tomorrow. In order to ensure our business partners a head start in their daily struggle for that decisive competitive edge.
This is just one example of the many advantages that Siegwerk creates for its customers. Thanks to its international production and service network, the company is present globally, and its products and services are available on all the world’s important markets. Experienced and highly qualified staff support customers as they develop new products and, on-the-spot, in the production work in their pressrooms.
Individual nationally oriented customers are not the only ones to value the advantages of this worldwide network – it is also especially appreciated by globally active customer groups. The use of globally defined base inks and intermediate products ensures they can offer the consistent product quality that is held in such esteem by their internationally active customers and business partners – because they are dependent on getting their packaging or printing products to the consumer in consistent quality and appearance worldwide. Another major challenge presented by the phenomenon of globalization.
Day-in day-out, the company’s know-how helps its customers and business partners meet challenges and quickly solve any problems that have come up. And it’s the people, the “Siegwerkers”, who make the difference in the process – fast, flexible and, above all, unbureaucratic, helping wherever they are needed.
And so Siegwerk with its Ink, Heart & Soul approach is achieving what practically everybody in the economy of the 21st century is aspiring to: setting up or continuing long-term and mutually advantageous business relations – for improved cost-effectiveness, but especially for improved growth. And if the cooperation is thoroughly enjoyable to boot – then all the better.