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WillPemcoBielomatik

Logo: BW Papersystems, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

German manufacturing company

BW Papersystems Hamburg is a German manufacturing company based in Wedel. It supplies machinery for the paper manufacturing and converting industries. The company is one of the four German locations of BW Papersystems, a division of the United States based Barry-Wehmiller group of companies.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1866Founded1
  • Industrymachinery industry and plant construction, manufacture of machinery for paper and paperboard production, mechanical engineering1
  • HeadquartersWedel1
  • Websitewww.bwpapersystems.com
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1

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BW Papersystems Hamburg is a German manufacturing company based in Wedel. It supplies machinery for the paper manufacturing and converting industries.2

Corporate structure

WillPemcoBielomatik is part of a group headed by Barry-Wehmiller. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

BW Papersystems Hamburg was founded in 1866 (as E.C.H. Will GmbH). Former E.C.H. Will and its sister companies Kugler-Womako GmbH and Sheboygan, WI based Pemco Inc. (including also SHM and Wrapmatic brands) became part of BW Papersystems in 2014, joining MarquipWardUnited Inc.

The brand name 'WillPemcoBielomatik' was established in 2015 as a combination of the brands E.C.H. Will, Pemco and the paper processing division of bielomatik Leuze GmbH + Co. KG.

In 2016, BW Papersystems Hamburg celebrated the 150th anniversary of its original brand E.C.H. Will.

In 2018, the company acquired the rotary cross cutting technology from the Germany based firm Questec, for the converting of very light and thin paper and film.

From Wikipedia’s article on BW Papersystems Hamburg, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

The portfolio of the brand WillPemcoBielomatik includes cut-size sheeters and complete packaging lines for the production of communication paper (2-16 pockets), folio-size sheeting machines for paper and cardboard, ream wrapper for large paper sheets, converting lines for the production of exercise books and ruled and un-ruled layers as well as solutions for the industrial production of digitally printed books.

From Wikipedia’s article on BW Papersystems Hamburg, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1866Founded Founded1

Sources

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