Ingo Jonas and Frans Maas lead the Chronos BTH subsidiary in Eersel, Netherlands together with an increased focus on growth and customer services.
Premier Tech, the parent company of Chronos Richardson, acquires the packaging specialist Bag Treatment Holland B.V. (BTH) from Eersel, in the Netherlands.
On 17 September 2009, Premier Tech announced the acquisition of BTH, an innovative market leader in the packaging industry located in the Netherlands. BTH will be merged with Chronos Richardson and create a team of specialists and experts with profound industry know-how.
The combination of Chronos Richardson and BTH will, from October 1st, operate under the name Chronos BTH both in Europe as well as in Asia. The strong and uniform Chronos BTH image shall underline its innovative and dynamic orientation and significantly contribute to its increased presence on the market.
The product portfolio will be one of the most exhaustive in the industry with innovative systems in the areas of bag packaging and palletising solutions as well as load security. The new entity will continue to operate from sites in Germany, Italy, England, France, Thailand, and now the Netherlands.
The new company, Chronos BTH, will offer some of the most advanced and innovative equipment and systems available in Europe and Asia:
State of the art weighing and control systems;
An extended core range of bagging systems with customised packaging solutions for open-mouth bags, valve bags, FFS technology, bulk containers as well as mobile bagging equipment;
Conventional palletising and advanced robotic solutions;
High performance stretch hooding and wrapping systems.
Customers will access well-engineered solutions for all their packaging needs, from manual packaging equipment to fully-automated integrated system solutions covering all the steps from the reception of bulk material and the packaging up to the securing of cargo ready for dispatch and loading. The advantage is clear: One supplier, everything from a single source. BTH’s know-how, particularly in the area of open bag equipment and pallet securing systems, ideally complements the Chronos portfolio. The interaction of compatible systems that can be fully integrated facilitates the goal of providing customers with optimised customised packaging solutions in all industry segments, including food, pet food and fodder, dairy, agriculture, horticulture, building materials, chemicals, etc.
Eersel (NL) will become the new leading “Centre of Competence” for the core areas of Research & Development, Engineering, Assembly and Test Centre of the combined company Chronos BTH serving Europe, Middle East and Africa. Parma (IT) will have the same responsibilities specifically for all Mediterranean countries and markets.
The leadership of Chronos BTH Europe will be shared jointly between Frans Maas, the previous owner and general manager of BTH, and Ingo Jonas, former general manager of Chronos Richardson Systems GmbH in Hennef, Germany, while Cornelis A. Van Drent and Ricardo Taino will continue to manage their respective operations in Asia from the Thailand office and in Italy from the Parma office.
Ingo Jonas will be responsible for the Sales, Distribution, Marketing and Customer Service and Frans Maas for the Research & Development, Engineering, Operation and Manufacturing teams.
Frans Maas’ comments were: ‘’In order to equip the company BTH for the future and to continue the constant growth of the past 14 years, we were determined to find a strong partner, so the BTH products can be marketed worldwide. Premier Tech and its business unit, Chronos Richardson, is the ideal partner”.
Chronos BTH will now have a strong and experienced team of 190 team members in Europe. Chronos BTH, with its sister companies Premier Tech Systems and Chronos BTH Asia, is part of Premier Tech’s Industrial Equipment Group (IEG), which has more than 700 team members all over the world. This acquisition, the second this year for IEG following the integration of STONEPAK in the USA, leverages Premier Tech’s corporate philosophy focusing on leadership in technology and innovative cutting-edge products supported by strong commercial initiatives.
Ingo Jonas’ comments were: “The integration of BTH was an important strategic step for our company in order to develop and strengthen our position in the market and show our commitment to our customer base all through Europe. With this acquisition, we will be able to offer customers an even broader product portfolio, based on innovative technologies, all over Europe. Flexibility, precision, quality, competitive offers and local presence are central requirements of the markets and of our customers. Chronos BTH will now fulfil it even better, with its optimised range of services and wealth of experience”.
Chronos BTH’s sites in Hennef (Germany), Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Viry-Châtillon (France) will continue to function as customer service centres.
The new Chronos BTH will present itself for the first time at this year’s Fachpack in Nürnberg and at the PPMA Trade Fair in Birmingham, which will take place at the same time from 29 September to 1 October 2009. You will find us at Fachpack, in hall 4, stand 4-422, and at the PPMA in hall 5, stand F50 and Hall 5 stand G43.
