NEWS
ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH: Change in the management team
Matthias Holder succeeds Jürgen Lochner as CSO/CTO
Heilbronn, 10.02.2025 – ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH has made a change in management with effect from January 15th, 2025. Mr. Matthias Holder (55) has taken over the dual position of Chief Sales Officer/ Chief Technology Officer from Mr. Jürgen Lochner, who is leaving the Heilbronn-based company after several years to pursue new career opportunities. Matthias Holder will head the Sales, Technology and Service divisions at ILLIG. His initial focus will be on the strategic realignment of the global sales and service business in a challenging market environment.
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New system for the production of natural fiber packaging
ILLIG focuses on game-changing technology dry fiber
ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH is presenting sustainable packaging solutions made of dry natural fibers (dry fiber) for the first time at Fachpack 2024. The German technology company is expanding its product portfolio of thermoforming and packaging systems to include a new product segment and will be presenting a modular production system for manufacturing dry fiber packaging for the first time at the trade fair in Nuremberg. Customers will be able to see the innovative and modular production system with a higher output than other natural fiber processes (scalable from 20 to 120 million packages per year) for themselves at the Heilbronn site from the fourth quarter of 2024.
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A new start for ILLIG: business will continue with a new company name
German financial investor acquires the thermoforming and packaging specialist
The acquisition of ILLIG, German specialist for thermoforming and packaging, by the German financial investor Orlando Capital was completed on August 1, 2024. In the course of the self-administered restructuring proceedings initiated in April 2024, the company, together with the restructuring experts of Grub Brugger (Stuttgart) and the administrator Dr. Tibor Braun of IBK Illig Braun Kirschnek Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB (Stuttgart), succeeded in finding an investor for the continuation of business operations and the strategic realignment of the company
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ILLIG to be acquired by a German financial investor
Successful restructuring proceedings in self-administration
Heilbronn, 18 July 2024 – ILLIG, the German specialist for thermoforming and packaging systems, will successfully complete the equity capitalization and restructuring process initiated at the end of 2023 with the entry of a German financial investor. In the course of the self-administered restructuring proceedings initiated in April 2024, the company, together with the restructuring experts of Grub Brugger (Stuttgart) and the administrator Dr. Tibor Braun of IBK Illig Braun Kirschnek Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB (Stuttgart), succeeded in finding an investor for the continuation of business operations and the strategic realignment of the company.
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NPE 2024
New RDF 85 XL thermoforming system with Sencorp 2500 tool compatibility
Heilbronn, 25.04.2023 | At the NPE Plastics Show from May 6 to 10 in Orlando, Florida, the German machine builder ILLIG will be presenting an extensive portfolio of thermoforming and packaging solutions. In addition to classic packaging solutions, such as cups, lids, capsules or clamshell packaging, this year's trade fair appearance will also focus on heavy gauge thermoformed parts, which are used in the automotive industry or for logistics solutions. ILLIG's latest product innovation is the RDF 85 XL thermoforming system, which has been developed to meet market requirements in North and Central America.
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Growth financing not possible from own resources
ILLIG continues equity and restructuring process as part of self-administered restructuring proceedings
The Heilbronn-based mechanical engineering company ILLIG is continuing its equity capitalization and restructuring process as part of its self-administered restructuring proceedings (equal to a chapter 11 according to the US law). The Heilbronn Local Court today accepted the company's filing. The self-administration will be led by the existing management and supported by the restructuring expert Jochen Sedlitz and his team of GRUB BRUGGER (Stuttgart).
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