Wellpappenfabriken

What Wellpappenfabriken does

Wellpappenfabriken Warburg-Kassel GmbH & Co. KG is a family-owned German corrugated cardboard packaging manufacturer founded in 1960 in Ense-Höingen and currently led by sole owner and managing director Astrid Wilmes, who took over in 1996. The company operates three sites — a consulting office in Ense-Höingen, the main production facility with an in-house corrugated board plant (Wellpappenanlage) in Warburg-Nörde, and a warehouse/logistics center with backoffice in Kassel-Waldau — and employs approximately 65 staff. Its business is the custom, made-to-order production of corrugated packaging for industrial and manufacturing customers, primarily in western and central Germany, with deliveries also reaching Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dresden.

The product portfolio consists of six core packaging types: Faltschachteln (folding boxes), Stülpschachteln (lid boxes), Schiebeschachteln (sliding boxes), Zuschnitte/Bogenverpackungen (flat sheet packaging), Jumbo-Kartons (extra-large cartons up to 2.40m x 4m), and Sonderanfertigungen (custom-made cartons with up to two-color printing, and options such as handles, windows, and air holes). All production is to order — no warehouse stock is held. The core technology is the in-house corrugated board production plant that produces B-, C-, E-wave and combinations (e.g., BC-wave), combined with CAD-based packaging construction and sample-cut feasibility checks. This vertical integration from raw board to finished carton, together with an owned LKW fleet and long-term logistics partners, is the company's operational backbone.

Commercially, the company runs a sales-led, direct-customer model with fixed contact partners from inquiry through delivery, supplemented by an internal sales team that handles phone sales to existing customers and telephone prospecting for new accounts. Pricing is exclusively quote-based, derived from customer-provided dimensions, quantities, printing requirements, and material specifications. The customer base is concentrated in industrial and manufacturing sectors, including furniture manufacturers and mechanical engineering firms requiring large-format, heavy-duty, or otherwise non-standard packaging. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, no external investors or funding rounds are evident, and the business is wholly owned by the Wilmes family.

Name

Wellpappenfabriken

Legal name

Wellpappenfabriken Warburg-Kassel GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://wellpappenfabriken.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wellpappenfabriken Warburg-Kassel is a family-owned German corrugated cardboard packaging manufacturer that produces custom, made-to-order cartons and jumbo-format packaging for industrial and manufacturing customers across Germany from three sites.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corrugated Cardboard Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing (322211)

SIC

Paperboard Containers & Boxes (2650), Paper Mills (2621)

akta.pro primary industry

Corrugated Packaging & Boxes (RSC, die-cut, bulk bins) (IMAMAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Folding Cartons & Paperboard Packaging Converting (IMAMAHAB)

Keywords

• Corrugated cardboard packaging
• Custom folding cartons
• Industrial packaging manufacturing
• Jumbo carton solutions
• Made-to-order packaging

Headquarters

HQ city

Kassel

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Corrugated Packaging Manufacturing: Manufacture of custom corrugated board packaging (Stülpschachteln, Faltschachteln, Schiebeschachteln, cuts, Jumbo cartons, custom special designs). Production is made-to-order only, no warehouse stock. Includes optional one to two-color printing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Wellpappenfabriken manufactures custom corrugated cardboard packaging made exclusively to order, with no warehouse stock. Products include folding cartons (Faltschachteln), lid boxes (Stülpschachteln), sliding boxes (Schiebeschachteln), flat sheet packaging (Zuschnitte), Jumbo cartons up to 2.40 m × 4 m, and fully custom special designs with optional handles, windows, air holes, and 1–2 color printing. The value chain runs in-house from corrugated board production (B-, C-, E-wave and combinations such as BC-wave), through CAD-based packaging construction and sample production, to finished carton conversion and delivery via the company's own fleet and partner logistics.

Product overview

Wellpappenfabriken is a family-owned corrugated cardboard packaging manufacturer offering made-to-order cartons and sheet packaging. The product portfolio consists of six core packaging types: Faltschachteln (folding boxes), Stülpschachteln (lid boxes), Schiebeschachteln (sliding boxes), Zuschnitte/Bogenverpackungen (flat cuts/sheet packaging), Jumbo-Karton (extra-large cartons up to 2.40 m x 4 m), and Sonderanfertigungen (custom-made cartons to measure). All products are manufactured exclusively to order with no stock inventory. The company also provides a full-service value chain including packaging consulting, CAD-based packaging construction, in-house corrugated board production (with B-, C-, E-wave and combinations such as BC-wave), carton production, and logistics delivery via their own fleet or partner carriers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Faltschachteln (Folding Cartons)
• Stülpschachteln (Lid Boxes)
• Schiebeschachteln (Sliding Boxes)
• Zuschnitte / Bogenverpackungen (Flat Cuts / Sheet Packaging)
• Jumbo-Karton (Oversized Cartons)
• Sonderanfertigungen (Custom-Made Cartons)

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Long-term Logistics PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEstablished partnerships with logistics/shipping companies for delivery to customers beyond the coverage area of the company's own fleet. These partners enable deliveries across all of Germany including distant locations like Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Dresden.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• VPK Packaging Group: Belgium-headquartered family-owned corrugated and solid board packaging group with production across several European countries; competes in similar industrial/furniture packaging niches across adjacent geographies.

Broad incumbents

• Stora Enso: Nordic integrated paperboard and packaging group producing consumer board and corrugated board, addressing overlapping end-markets with mid-sized German converters.
• DS Smith: Major European corrugated packaging producer with deep German customer relationships; competes primarily on volume and recycled-content sustainability credentials.
• Smurfit Kappa: World's largest integrated corrugated producer with extensive European footprint; serves as a key competitor for any German industrial packaging customer account and a likely consolidator in the medium term.
• Mondi Group: Global paper and packaging group with significant European corrugated operations; provides scale-driven benchmark on pricing, capacity, and customer reach that dwarfs mid-sized German converters like Wellpappenfabriken.

Direct peers

• Karl-Heinz Peters GmbH & Co. KG: German family-owned corrugated packaging converter (Faltschachteln, Stanzverpackungen, Wellpappe-Zuschnitte) serving industrial customers — direct domestic comparable in scale and product range.
• Schumacher Packaging: German family-owned corrugated and solid board packaging manufacturer with multiple German production sites, offering custom folding cartons, die-cuts, and special formats — a close comparable in size, ownership structure, and product mix to Wellpappenfabriken.
• Panther Packaging: German corrugated packaging converter producing custom folding cartons, die-cuts, and display packaging for industrial and consumer customers; competes head-to-head in the German mid-market corrugated space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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