BST ProMark acquires US company Accuweb
BST ProMark, a subsidiary of BST International, has acquired Accuweb, a Wisconsin, USA-based supplier of control technology for web processing industries.
In a statement, BST said the shareholding would further extend the group’s portfolio of control technologies, while also making it the market leader for web guiding technology in the United States.
‘For us Accuweb is not just an attractive shareholding that strengthens our market and competitive position. With Accuweb, a company that is a good cultural fit for us is joining the BST Group,’ explained Percy Dengler, managing director of BST International. ‘Accuweb and BST have the same origins and after more than 30 years are joining forces under the same roof.’
BST International specializes in equipment for web guiding, web inspection, 100 percent inspection, color meas-urement, register control, process automation and layer & basis weight measurement. As a manufacturer of quality assurance systems for web processing industries, BST has an installation base of over 100,000 systems in more than 100 countries.
At its headquarters in Bielefeld, Germany, the company employs a staff of over 170, while globally BST Interna-tional has 400 employees.
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