Finishing & Screen Printing

Mathias Bäuerle GmbH: Long-established company is searching for investors

Tuesday 31. July 2012 - The manufacturer of inserting and folding machines, that recently was forced to file insolvency, is looking for a new investor. The local court of Villingen-Schwenningen appointed the lawyer Martin Mucha from the Stuttgart law firm Grub Brugger & Partner as preliminary insolvency administrator.

Application for insolvency became necessary because of the sluggish incoming orders situation during the last few months. Before the drupa, which was held in Düsseldorf in May, customers had been reluctant to place orders. However, already during and after the fair the receipt of orders has stabilised. This means that the signs are promising for the economic survival and successful restructuring of the company.
Business operations of Mathias Bäuerle GmbH will continue under the supervision of a preliminary insolvency administrator. The search for a suitable investor for Mathias Bäuerle GmbH has already started and initial talks with interested parties have already taken place.
Mathias Bäuerle GmbH, a long-established company domiciled in the Black Forest, is a leading global manufacturer of machines for post-press processing and can look back on a history of almost 150 years. Its present core competences are automated inserting and folding machines as well as mailing systems. The company supplies among others many well-known customers in the banking and insurance sector. As a result of its trend-setting inventions and patents, Mathias Bäuerle GmbH has significantly shaped and influenced the automation of post-press paper processing and is seen as a pioneer in this field. Proofs for the innovative power of the company are its forward-looking developments for which it received numerous industry awards such as the Innovation Prize of the Germany Printing Industry. Just at the beginning of this year the new multi-format high-capacity inserting system autoSET B4 HighFLEX was voted Product of the Year by a trade magazine.
Martin Mucha is a specialist lawyer for insolvency law. He is an associate in the law firm Grub Brugger & Partner, specialised in the restructuring of crisis-ridden companies. In recent years, Grub Brugger & Partner was, for example, involved in insolvency proceedings for the following companies: Schiesser AG, Radolfzell; Rohweder AG, Bermatingen; Mayer & Cie. GmbH, Albstadt; Eisenmann Druckguss GmbH, Villingen-Schwenningen; Grässlin Automationssysteme GmbH, St. Georgen; Drescher-Gruppe, Rutesheim and Offenburg.