page_title: August Faller GmbH & Co. KG
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: August Faller GmbH & Co. KG / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: August Faller KG Historie
context_page_description: August Faller GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer and system supplier of pharmaceutical secondary packaging headquartered in Waldkirch, in Baden-Württemberg. With 1147 employees in 6 different locations across Europe, the company produces 2.1 billion folding cartons, 1.6 billion leaflets and 1 billion adhesive labels per year. August Faller GmbH & CO. KG is one of the market leading companies in the field of pharmaceutical secondary packaging in the German-Speaking region.
context_section_description: The company was founded in 1882 by August Faller as a lithographic printing business. Initially, it produced letterheads, postcards and business documents. In 1932, the company began to specialise in label production. In 1953, the company completed a reorganisation. It began manufacturing folding cartons as another line of production besides labels. In 1992, the company began to specialise in pharmaceutical secondary packaging.
  
  In 2001 and 2002, the company added production sites in Binzen and Schopfheim. In 2008, the PharmaServiceCentre (PSC) for packaging services in Großbeeren near Berlin was opened. In 2012, Faller acquired Danish folding carton manufacturer A.C. Schmidt A/S in Hvidovre, Denmark. In autumn 2013, the company opened a new production plant in Łódź, Poland. The subsidiary Digital Packaging Service GmbH was founded in 2017 and has been renamed into PackEx GmbH in January 2019. With an open approach in the industry, PackEx GmbH produces folding boxes in small batches from 1 to 5,000 pieces with fully digitalized and high resource-saving processes.
caption: Ernst Faller & Hermann Schönle (2nd generation to go into the family business)
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