Our company’s history began a few years ago with the joint construction design of a machine. 

Micha­el Ficht­ner | Com­pa­ny Founder

Pho­to from pri­va­te archive
Tho­mas Fichtner 

FICHTNER Clip

Tho­mas Ficht­ner has spent his ent­i­re life buil­ding and pro­du­cing bag machi­nes for the paper and foil con­ver­ting indus­try. Today also his son Micha­el can look back on many years of expe­ri­ence in the design and con­struc­tion of paper con­ver­ting machi­nes.
Tho­mas Ficht­ner & Micha­el Ficht­ner star­ted tog­e­ther as a fami­ly busi­ness – Tho­mas Ficht­ner pas­sed away in July 2020, so Micha­el Ficht­ner is now rea­li­sing the dream they shared, sup­port­ba­ged by his own young family.

2018 | Con­struc­tion design of an own machi­ne for the pro­duc­tion of bag closures

2019 Decem­ber | Start-up pha­se and begin­ning of engineering

2020 March | Start of assem­bly of the new machine

2020 Sep­tem­ber | First suc­cess­ful tri­als of the new machi­ne | Hiring my first expe­ri­en­ced employee

2020 Octo­ber | Start of Production

2021 1st quar­ter | Com­ple­ti­on of the 2nd pro­duc­tion line for clips and clip-strips clo­sures up to 300 mm in length

2021 2nd quar­ter | Take­over of the Eas­ter grass or paper wool busi­ness of Eugen Mai­er GmbH

2021 3rd quar­ter | Con­struc­tion of fur­ther pro­duc­tion lines for lar­ge cus­to­mers in the area of clips and short clip-strips clo­sures | Start of con­struc­tion of addi­tio­nal aggre­ga­tes for the pro­duc­tion of paper roll goods

Smart production at the state of the art 

Efficient and Eco-Friendly 

Our pro­ducts are made from rene­wa­ble or recy­cled raw materials

Well designed packaging processes 

New manu­fac­tu­ring tech­ni­ques to redu­ce pro­duc­tion waste

Digital printing technologies are increasingly entering areas that were previously hardly thought possible.

The design of clips and clip­band clo­sures can also be com­ple­te­ly rede­si­gned through digi­ti­sa­ti­on.
Whe­re­as the clas­sic designs of con­ti­nuous pat­terns were still limi­ted by sta­tic prin­ting forms and mecha­ni­cal pro­ces­ses, the fle­xi­bi­li­ty of digi­tal prin­ting sys­tems now gives us pre­vious­ly unt­hin­ka­ble opti­ons in terms of cus­to­mi­sa­ti­on.
In addi­ti­on, in the past the pro­duc­tion of prin­ting pla­tes was always a not incon­si­derable cost fac­tor, which usual­ly dis­cou­ra­ged the crea­ti­on of more indi­vi­du­al or spe­ci­fic designs.

Unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly, the choice of paper is still too limi­ted at the moment, but it is only a mat­ter of time befo­re the most ambi­tious manu­fac­tu­rers of digi­tal prin­ting sys­tems will have sol­ved this pro­blem with ease.
As soon as we are com­ple­te­ly satis­fied with the results, we will offer you this ser­vice exclusively.As soon as we are com­ple­te­ly satis­fied with the results, we will offer you this ser­vice exclusively.

Examp­les:
Opti­ons for Cus­to­mi­sa­ti­on and Sam­ple Designs