175 years of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen: Company starts anniversary year with growth strategy

By: PR Leap

January 08, 2025 at 06:00 AM EST

(PRLeap.com)  Growth strategy: medium-term sales potential of more than � 300 million
 Growth drivers in the core business: packaging, digital printing Software and lifecycle business
 Industrial business: focus on further expansion
 175 years: the company has been shaping the printing industry for decades with technological innovations, quality and reliability
 Numerous anniversary activities throughout the year

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) is entering its anniversary year 2025 with a growth strategy: March 11, 2025, marks the 175th anniversary of the company's founding. What began over a century and a half ago as a bell foundry in Frankenthal in the Palatinate region of Germany, has since developed into a leading global technology com-pany and total solutions provider for print shops and packaging applications.
HEIDELBERG is tackling the challenges of the future with a clear growth strategy.

"To expand our market position, we are increasingly tapping into growth potential in our core business in packaging and digital printing as well as in the software and lifecycle business," says Jürgen Otto, CEO of HEIDELBERG. "We will also continue to expand our offering in the growing green technologies market. This includes key areas such as high-precision mechanical engineering, the automotive industry, charging infrastructure and software, and new hydrogen technologies." In total, HEIDELBERG sees growth potential of more than � 300 million in sales for all strategic initiatives by the 2028/2029 financial year, while at the same time consolidating performance and increasing efficiency.

 Packaging market has seen significant growth since 2014
HEIDELBERG is benefiting from the constantly growing global demand for packaging. The end customer market for packaging has grown by more than 6o percent worldwide over the past ten years. In cooperation with Solenis, HEIDEL-BERG is responding to the global trend away from plastic and foil to-wards paper-based packaging and will in future offer solutions for printing recyclable packaging, particularly for the food industry. The company already generates more than 50 percent of its turnover in the packaging segment. And the trend is clearly upward.

 HEIDELBERG seizes opportunities in growing industrial digital printing
According to market estimates, the global digital printing market accessible to HEIDELBERG, including service and consumables, will grow from around EUR 5 billion today to EUR 7.5 billion by 2029. HEIDELBERG has significantly ex-panded its offering, including through its cooperation with Canon. This will significantly increase sales of digital printing solutions. Incoming or-ders already confirm this from the next financial year.

 International business with high potential
HEIDELBERG sees a lever for more sales growth in its strong international pres-ence in around 170 countries worldwide, with one of the largest global sales and service networks. The company will continue to expand this internation-alization, particularly in growth markets such as Asia, the USA and emerg-ing markets. HEIDELBERG has the best prerequisites for this, particularly in China, thanks to its local production and partnership with MK Masterwork. More than 85 percent of the company's business is already conducted outside Germany.

 Focus on expanding industrial business in the Technology segment
Another focus is on HEIDELBERG's industrial business to open up new product areas, markets, and industries. To this end, the company has ex-tensive skills, expertise and resources that are currently already being used out-side the printing industry, particularly in the fields of high-precision me-chanical engineering, the automotive industry, electromobility and hydrogen. The company is also increasingly offering its expertise and installed capacities to other companies in order to efficiently industrialize or manufacture their products.

175 years: the company has been shaping the printing industry for decades with technological innovations, quality and reliability
HEIDELBERG has been shaping the printing industry for 175 years with innovations, top quality and maximum reliability. Throughout its history, the company has repeatedly set new standards with pioneering developments such as the "Original Heidelberger Tiegel" and the "Speedmaster" model series for sheetfed offset printing. "175 years of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen are a strong testimony to consistency, as well as innovative strength and thus future viability," says Jürgen Otto. "Thanks to its impressive achieve-ments over the past 175 years, the company is looking forward to further growth in the coming years with its current market position, the expertise of its employees and global customer relationships."

Numerous anniversary activities throughout the year
Together with customers, employees and partners, HEIDELBERG is celebrating its anni-versary year with numerous events and activities. In the summer, for example, there will be a week of celebrations at the Wiesloch-Walldorf headquarters in the newly designed demonstration center - the Home of Print - including an anniversary ceremony with guests from all over the world, i.e. customers, suppliers, partners and representatives from politics and society. Family days are planned for employees at individual locations. In addition, there will be an anniversary magazine in which the history of the company will be presented, and the future will be directed.

With around 9,500 employees worldwide, production facilities in several countries and regions, including China and the USA, as well as the densest sales and service network in the industry, HEIDELBERG is now a true global player and world market leader from Germany. "Our history impressively demonstrates how entrepreneurship, technical ex-pertise and the genuine creative power of our employees can have a lasting impact on a company over such a long period of time and, far beyond that, on an entire industry to this day," Otto continues.

Image 1: March 11, 2025 marks the 175th anniversary of the founding of HEIDELBERG. The automatic platen press introduced in 1921 is HEIDELBERG's best and longest seller with a printing capacity of 3,000 sheets per hour and is the epitome of precision, performance and reliability.

Images and further information about the company are available on the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG press portal at www.heidelberg.com.

For further information:

Group Communications
Thomas Fichtl
Phone: +49 6222 82- 67123
E-Mail: Thomas.Fichtl@heidelberg.com

Matthias Hartung
Phone: +49 6222 82- 67174
E-Mail: Matthias.Hartung@heidelberg.com

Important note:

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on assumptions and estimates made by the management of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft. Even if the company management is of the opinion that these assumptions and estimates are accurate, actual future developments and future actual results may deviate considerably from these assumptions and estimates due to a variety of factors. These factors may include, for example, changes in the overall economic situation, exchange rates and interest rates as well as changes within the graphic arts industry. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft provides no guarantee and assumes no liability that future developments and the actual results achieved in the future will correspond to the assumptions and estimates made in this press release.

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Thomas Fichtl
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
+49 6222 82- 67123
http://www.heidelberg.com

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