Press Release
S.E.M. and Koenig & Bauer enter alliance

Koenig & Bauer expands its service product portfolio

•	Expanding service business
•	Product portfolio extended
•	Long-term partnership 

Würzburg, 03.07.2018
Koenig & Bauer is expanding its product portfolio in response to service business expansions and strong customer demand. In cooperation with S.E.M. Servicegesellschaft, the press manufacturer will offer almost all services concerning printing presses to customers in the future. “We have worked well and successfully with S.E.M. in the past and building on this partnership was the next logical step. Our customers want the opportunity to have one contact person for their entire print shop. We can now offer this together with S.E.M.,” says Thomas Potzkai, head of service at Koenig & Bauer. This alliance of both companies is geared towards longer-term commitment. Achim Trenkner, managing director of S.E.M. Servicegesellschaft: “The goal of our alliance is clear – we want to work the market proactively together, with services ranging from general upkeep, maintenance and technical press cleaning. Together we now see ourselves as a full-service provider.“ The fields of activity of both companies are clearly separated from each other and complement each other in an ideal way.
S.E.M: Electrical engineering - mechanics - maintenance
S.E.M Servicegesellschaft für Elektrik und Mechanik GmbH was founded in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 1979. The company expanded beyond Ludwigshafen for the first time in 2006. It won jobs in Bremerhaven, Crailsheim, Minden, Darmstadt, Regensburg and many other German cities. In the meantime, S.E.M. has developed into a nationwide company with almost 300 employees and several locations. The company offers maintenance, electrotechnical installations in the industrial and commercial sector as well as technical machine cleaning.
Photo:
After signing the partnership agreement (l-r): Janos Györösi, operations manager S.E.M Servicegesellschaft; Thomas Bergmann, head of service management KBA-Digital & Web Solutions; Achim Trenkner, managing director S.E.M Servicegesellschaft; Thomas Potzkai, head of service and project management KBA-Digital & Web Solutions; Michael Braun, contract management KBA-Digital & Web Solutions; Tim Arnheiter, managing director S.E.M. Servicegesellschaft

Press contact
KBA-Digital & Web Solutions AG & Co. KG
Henning Düber
T +49 931 909-4039
M henning.dueber@koenig-bauer.com

About Koenig & Bauer
Koenig & Bauer is the world’s second-largest printing press manufacturer with the broadest product range in the industry. For 200 years, the company has been supporting printers with innovative technology, tailor-made processes and a wide array of services. The portfolio ranges from banknotes, via board, film, metal and glass packaging, through to book, display, coding, magazine, advertising and newspaper printing. Sheetfed and webfed offset and flexo printing, waterless offset, intaglio, simultaneous perfecting and screen printing or digital inkjet – Koenig & Bauer is at home in virtually all printing processes and is the market leader in many of them. In the financial year 2017, the approximately 5,600 highly qualified employees worldwide generated annual sales of more than EUR 1.2 billion.

Further information can be found at www.koenig-bauer.com