WmD Druckfabrik

What WmD Druckfabrik does

WmD Druckfabrik Berlin GmbH is an industrial online printing manufacturer based in Berlin-Tempelhof, Germany, founded in 2013 as a production subsidiary of WirmachenDruck GmbH. The company produces high-volume printed materials — folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes — for approximately 400 business customers, with daily output exceeding one million products and paper consumption of at least 24 tonnes, making it the third-largest paper buyer in the Berlin area. Its core technology stack centers on modern Heidelberg offset printing presses (including XL 106 UV models) supplemented by Polar high-precision cutting systems, folding and brochure lines, and Winkler Dünnebier sheet-to-envelope manufacturing equipment, enabling vertical integration from raw paper to finished mailings.

The company employs approximately 130 people (as of 2017) and has pursued a continuous capacity-build strategy through three production-floor expansions, multiple press acquisitions, and the 2014 launch of in-house envelope production. It operates as the captive manufacturing arm of the parent's e-commerce platform, wir-machen-druck.de, and does not run a direct customer-facing storefront; the GTM motion is therefore B2B2C, with the parent company owning demand generation and WmD Druckfabrik fulfilling orders on a transaction-fee / production-services basis. Product mix is concentrated in standard commercial print categories, with no disclosed move into digital, large-format, packaging, or specialty substrates.

The business is private, unlisted, and wholly owned by WirmachenDruck GmbH, with no external investors, funding rounds, M&A activity, or board-level disclosures. Revenue, unit pricing, and product-level margins are not publicly disclosed; the only financial proxy is operational scale (paper tonnes and units shipped per day). Leadership consists of a single managing director, Stefan Wegner, with no additional C-suite detail available. Customer logos, named enterprise accounts, patents, certifications, and regulatory disclosures are absent from the source material, reflecting the limited public footprint typical of a private manufacturing subsidiary.

Name

WmD Druckfabrik

Legal name

WmD Druckfabrik Berlin GmbH

Website

https://druckfabrik-berlin.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

WmD Druckfabrik Berlin GmbH is a Berlin-based industrial online printing manufacturer producing folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes for roughly 400 B2B customers via its parent company's wir-machen-druck.de platform, using modern Heidelberg offset presses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Printing Services

NAICS

Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) (323111), Printing (32311)

SIC

Commercial Printing (2750)

akta.pro primary industry

Printing & Business Forms (continuous forms, checks, tickets) (IMAMAHAH)

Keywords

• Industrial offset printing
• Commercial print manufacturing
• Brochure and flyer printing
• Envelope manufacturing
• Online print production

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Industrial Online Print Manufacturing: B2B print manufacturing service producing folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes for business customers. Products are sold through the parent company Wir Machen Druck online platform. Production is characterized by high volume (1M+ products/day), short changeover times, and industrial-scale operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

WmD Druckfabrik operates an industrial online printing facility in Berlin producing folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes on modern Heidelberg offset printing presses. The company manufactures more than one million printed products per day for approximately 400 business customers, with integrated finishing (cutting, folding, binding) and in-house envelope manufacturing. Products are sold through the parent WirmachenDruck online platform.

Product overview

WmD Druckfabrik Berlin GmbH operates as an industrial online printing company producing printed materials including folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes. The company utilizes modern Heidelberg printing machines (XL 106 and XL 106-8-P5(X1) LE UV 18k) and maintains a network of folding, brochure-making, and Polar cutting machines. Production output exceeds one million products daily for approximately 400 customers. The company sells products through its parent company's Online-Shop (wir-machen-druck.de) rather than operating a direct e-commerce platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Folders (Folder) Folded printed materials (folders) produced at industrial scale in the Berlin facility for business customers.
• Flyers Single-sheet printed promotional materials produced daily at volumes exceeding one million units for approximately 400 customers.
• Broschüren (Brochures) Multi-page bound printed materials produced through industrial bookbinding operations, with a new brochure production line planned.
• Briefumschläge (Envelopes) Envelopes manufactured using Winkler Dünnebier equipment and stamping machines, representing a distinct production branch established in 2014.
• Wir-machen-druck.de Online-Shop E-commerce platform operated by the parent company WirmachenDruck GmbH, serving as the primary online ordering channel for the folders, flyers, brochures, and envelopes manufactured by WmD Druckfabrik.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,000,000+ products manufactured per day
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 August 2014Key equipment supplier providing industrial offset printing presses including the Heidelberg XL 106-8-P5(X1) LE UV 18k and Heidelberg XL 106. The company has made major investments in Heidelberg technology as core production equipment.
• WirmachenDruck GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Parent company and strategic partner. Wirmachendruck GmbH founded the Druckfabrik Berlin GmbH subsidiary in 2013. The subsidiary serves as the manufacturing production facility for the Wirmachendruck online print network. Products are sold through the wir-machen-druck.de online platform.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves16 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• WirmachenDruck GmbH: Parent company and online print storefront of WmD Druckfabrik; runs the same B2B offset print platform model (folders, flyers, brochures, envelopes) for the German SMB market and represents the immediate commercial counterpart to the manufacturing operation.
• Pixartprinting: European online print brand (part of Cimpress) producing flyers, brochures, posters, and packaging for B2B customers; competes directly in the same commercial print categories and customer segment as WmD Druckfabrik, primarily across continental Europe.
• Onlineprinters (Cimpress): German online print brand of the Cimpress group; sells offset-printed marketing materials, brochures, flyers, and stationery to European SMBs through an e-commerce platform — same product categories and customer profile as WmD Druckfabrik's parent channel.
• FLYERALARM: Germany's largest online print provider, offering offset and digital printing of flyers, brochures, folders, and business stationery to B2B customers via its own e-commerce platform; directly comparable in product mix, customer base, and GTM motion, though at materially larger scale.
• PRINT24 (Unitedprint): Online offset and digital print brand of Unitedprint, offering flyers, brochures, folders, and business cards across Europe; competes head-to-head with wir-machen-druck.de in the same product categories and customer segments.
• SAXOPRINT: German online offset print provider offering flyers, brochures, business cards, and folders to B2B customers; competes in essentially the same product/market segment as WmD Druckfabrik from a comparable mid-sized operational footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Cimpress (Vistaprint): Global mass-customization print platform (owner of Vistaprint, Onlineprinters, Pixartprinting); overlaps with WmD Druckfabrik in commercial offset/digital print for SMBs, but operates a much broader portfolio of brands and geographies.
• CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA: Large German print and photo products company operating both retail photo and commercial/online print; relevant incumbent with overlapping offset and digital print capabilities serving B2B and B2C customers across Europe.

Others

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG: Key equipment supplier rather than competitor — supplies the Heidelberg XL 106 offset presses that form the core of WmD Druckfabrik's production base; included as the most relevant enabling/infrastructure partner given the company's heavy dependence on this single press platform.

Emerging players

• Gelato: Global print-on-demand network connecting creators and brands to local production partners for flyers, cards, and marketing materials; partial overlap with WmD Druckfabrik in commercial print categories, but focused on distributed local production rather than single-site industrial offset.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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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