Brueckner Group USA Moving to Bigger Space
New facility in New Hampshire will serve the local customer base better and enhance capabilities in the North American market.
Brueckner USA will be moving its headquarters from Portsmouth, N.H., to Dover, N.H, where it has acquired a significantly larger facility—72,000 ft2 vs. 20,000 ft2. By year’s end, the new headquarters is expected to better serve the local customer base and enhance capabilities in the North American market
In the plastics and fiber machinery arena, Brueckner Group USA sells, services and supports the Brückner Group product portfolio in North America, operating as a separate, independent entity. The product range includes: Brückner Maschinenbau and Brückner Servtec, focused on production lines and services for the film stretching industry; Kiefel thermoforming, molded fiber, automation, tooling joining and medical technology; and, PackSys Global, lines for manufacturing plastic tubes, as well as folding and slitting machines for plastic caps
Purchased in December 2021, the focal point of the facility will be the tech center with several full-scale production machines and services for:
▪ Kiefel’s plastic and fiber thermoforming technology.
▪ Brückner Maschinenbau’s KARO 5.0 lab stretcher. as well as a Brückner Servtec workshop for clip and chain refurbishment.
▪ Additional lab machines to further local R&D in cooperation with customers and universities. The machinery will allow for operator training before the arrival of new equipment at the customer site.
The larger building also offers additional spare parts storage as well as clip and chain and tool refurbishing.
Said Brueckner Group USA president/CEO Matt Sieverding, “The new, much larger facility will allow Brueckner Group USA to bring additional capabilities to the important North American market. Accelerated by the COVID Pandemic the reshoring trend of manufacturing requires the suppliers to also shorten their support lines. Based on this, Brueckner Group USA has more than doubled its sales and service team over the last two years. With over 35 service techs to support our Brueckner, Kiefel and Packsys Global product lines we are leading the industry.”
He also added that the new tech center will add in-market training capabilities for a wide range of products in the company’s toolkit, and that this will go hand-in-hand with the build-up of a process engineering team that enables the company to optimize customer equipment and offers the possibility to develop customer specific processes in Dover.
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