Voith Paper is opening a new Center of Excellence for Winders in Mönchengladbach, where a team of more than 50 specialists will undertake winder upgrades and rebuilds. In particular, the team will provide an extensive range of services for all generations of the winders taken over from Jagenberg AG in 2002 and continuously developed by Voith since then. The facility will also offer solutions and services for winders made by other manufacturers.
At the new Voith Paper Center of Excellence in Mönchengladbach, mechanical and automation engineers will cover all functions from the initial idea to the production drawing for the hardware solution and the software engineering. Pre-acceptance inspection tests on automation solutions can also be carried out in Mönchengladbach. The supply of replacement parts will be ensured by specialists who will continue to have access to the complete Voith and Jagenberg data archives. A global network of commissioning and service specialists with more than a dozen winder servicing experts throughout Europe will be deployed on site at paper mills to undertake rebuilds, repairs and optimizations and deal with technical emergencies.
“By building a Center of Excellence at the Mönchengladbach site we want to make clear that winder modernization is one of Voith’s core areas of expertise with which we aim to achieve the greatest possible benefits for our customers. The large number of Voith machines already installed, the fact that we have access to their complete technical documentation, our longstanding experience and the extensive expertise of our winder team were all factors that had a huge influence on our decision," says Bernd Stibi, President Products & Service EMEA at Voith Paper, to explain the background to the decision to locate the new center in Mönchengladbach.
Voith has decades of experience and extensive project references in the maintenance, modernization and rebuilding of winders and has played a major role in new developments in this area. The investment in the new Center of Excellence will safeguard this know-how in the long term and create the basis for expanding the range of modern, productivity-enhancing service packages for winders. The specialist team in Mönchengladbach will be completely integrated into Voith Paper's global network, which supplies the paper industry worldwide in more than 50 countries with its workforce of almost 9,000 people.
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About the company
Voith sets standards in the markets energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, Voith employs more than 39,000 people, generates € 5.3 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is today one of the largest family-owned companies in Europe.