The market for industrial goods packaging in Austria is being rearranged. Deufol and the Austrian Rieder Group are joining forces. Their objective is to offer innovative end-to-end solutions for packaging and logistics services tailored to the customers’ needs.
In this new constellation Rieder’s concept is complemented by the IT expertise of Deufol’s Data Connect system. The objectives of the new venture are integrated project management, IT-based process-transparency and the implementation of Industrie 4.0.
“The continuously high quality of our performance has prevailed in recent years with great success. Also the global market leader Deufol has recognised this, what makes me very happy and proud. I am looking forward to the merger of our companies,” says Hannes Rieder, who will head the management of the new unit in Austria.
Dennis Hübner, Managing Director of Deufol Group “We have been able to observe the strengths of Rieder over a long period in Austria, and also in our shared growth market China. We are pleased to add this innovative and nationally and internationally significant packaging company to the Deufol Group”.
The Deufol group is a global premium provider of packaging services and adjacent services. The company’s focus includes Export & Industrial Packaging, Logistics Services, Automated Packaging, Smart IT solutions for supply chain, Promotional & Display Packaging or Data Packaging. Capabilities include Export & Industrial Packaging, Logistics Services, Automated Packaging, innovative IT solutions along the supply chain, Promotional & Display Packaging or Data Packaging. Headquartered in Hofheim (Wallau) near Frankfurt/Main, the company is represented at 87 locations in 11 countries on three continents, and employs approximately 2,700 persons. In 2015, the group had a turnover of EUR 325 million.
Established in 1998, the Rieder packaging company provides its service range at multiple central transhipment hubs in Austria. At the production site in Ramsau, Lower Austria about 550,000 m² crate surface and approximately 60,000 special pallets are produced per year. Rieder employs currently about 145 persons.
www.deufol.com; www.rieder-r.com
