NEWS
ILLIG strengthens sales and service in Australia and New Zealand
New Sales Agent Tasman Machinery
Heilbronn/Melbourne, 14.08.2025 – ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH appoints Tasman Machinery, based in Melbourne, as its new representative for sales and service in Australia and New Zealand. The partnership takes effect immediately and covers the full range of ILLIG thermoforming systems.
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ILLIG at Fachpack 2025
Smart Innovations for Sustainable Impact
Heilbronn, 12.08.2025 - In line with the motto "Peak Performance – Sustainable Impact", ILLIG will present future-ready packaging solutions at this year’s Fachpack, taking place from September 23 to 25 in Nuremberg. These solutions consistently combine innovation and sustainability. As a system provider for thermoforming and packaging technology, ILLIG will highlight new technological developments, including the resource-efficient Dry Fiber technology, which recently received the German Packaging Award, and demonstrate how sustainable packaging concepts can be implemented efficiently and economically.
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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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