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Company Facts

Production Facilities
  • Main factory, Hattersheimer Strasse
Number of Employees
  • Approx. 460 (incl. 25 trainees)
Production Program
  • POLAR High-Speed Cutters:
  • Cutting width 66, 78, 92, 115, 137, 155, 176 cm (26”, 30 11/16”, 36 ¼”, 45 ¼”, 54”, 61”, 69 5/16”)
  • POLAR Cutting Systems with components for Loading, Jogging, Buffering, Cutting, Conveying and Off-loading of printed and unprinted material, for various stages of automation.
  • The networking-concept POLAR P-Net and its module Compucut® guarantee an easynetworking of Prepress and Postpress. The application CutManager allows a complete recording of the operating data.
  • POLAR Pile Turners create more production flow in every printing and paper converting company.
  • POLAR LabelSystems, for the production of square-cut and die-cut labels, are rounding off the POLAR product range.
Yearly Production
  • Approx. 1,500 High Speed Cutters
  • Approx. 1,000 Peripheral equipment components
  • History: As of the end of 2010 more than 130,000 POLAR-cutters have been sold!
Sales- and Service Organisations
  • Representations in 170 countries with over 200 branch offices, more than 600 service engineers and approx. 3,000 employees.
  • Export share 2010: more than 85%
Participations
  • Deutsches Institut Druck E.V., Wiesbaden (German Institute for Printing, Wiesbaden)
  • Printpromotion, Frankfurt
Member
  • BDBI, Aachen
  • Gutenberg Gesellschaft, Mainz (Gutenberg Association)
  • IRD, Hanau (Institute for Rationalization in the Printing Industry)
  • VDMA, Frankfurt (Association of German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers
  • VDB e.V., Freiburg (German Bookbinders Association
     
SERVICES
Application Training
We pass our know-how on to your personnel and take care, that existing equipment is being used with optimal efficiency.