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SIG Combibloc Group

March 14, 2023

SIG Combibloc Group AG, originally founded as Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (German for Swiss Industrial Company; in French, as Société Industrielle Suisse; and, in Italian, as Societá Industriale Svizzera), and later known as SIG Holding AG,[1] is a company currently active in the Packaging industry but used to participate in firearms and railcar manufacturing as well.[2]

SIG Combibloc Group AG
TypePrivate
PredecessorSIG Holding AG
Founded1853 (1853)
Headquarters
Neuhausen am Rheinfall (canton of Schaffhausen)
,
Switzerland
Key people
Samuel Sigrist, CEO
ProductsLiquid food and beverage packaging
ServicesAseptic cartons, filling equipment and service
Revenue€1.721 billion (2015)
Number of employees
c. 5500 (2021)
DivisionsSIG Combibloc, SIG Obeikan
Websitewww.sig.biz
SIG buildings in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Switzerland)

In 2007, SIG Holding AG was acquired by Rank Group Limited, the private investment company of New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart, and operated under its subsidiary, Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd., which, in March 2015, announced completion of its sale of SIG to ONEX Corporation of Canada.[3] In 2018, SIG Combibloc secured a $1.101 billion loan, with Barclays Bank acting as the administrative agent on the transaction.[4]

The SIG Combibloc Group shares are listed on SIX Swiss Exchange and it is a component of the SMI MID index.

History

The schweizerische Waggonfabrik[5] ("Swiss Wagon Factory") was founded in 1853 by Friedrich Peyer im Hof, Heinrich Moser, and Johann Conrad Neher.[6] From 1854, it produced railway cars for the emerging Swiss railway companies. Friedrich Peyer was one of the directors of the Swiss Northeastern Railway, also founded in 1853. Their factory in Neuhausen am Rheinfall was originally powered by the nearby Rhine Falls and employed 150 workers,[7] by the mid-1860s increased to 500 workers.[5]

Firearms

They produced the Prélaz-Burnand 1859, invented by gunsmith Jean-Louis Joseph Prélaz and forestry inspector Colonel Ėdouard Burnand (father of Swiss painter Eugène Burnand). In 1860, the rifle won a competition held by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Defence, resulting in a contract to produce 30,000 pieces.[8] This rifle was adapted as the M1863.

Upon receiving the contract to produce rifles, the company name was changed to reflect its new emphasis on machined production, becoming Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG); in English, Swiss Industrial Company; and, in French, Société Industrielle Suisse.[6][9]

SIG produced other firearms, including Mondragón Rifle, which was produced between 1908 and 1910.[10] The SIG P210 pistol was developed in 1937 based on the French Modèle 1935 pistol, and was adopted by the Swiss military in 1949 as the "Pistole 49". This pistol's frame design incorporates external rails that fit closely with the slide, thus eliminating play in the mechanism during firing. The P210 was noted for its good accuracy.[citation needed] The Petter-Browning patent was a refinement—and John Moses Browning's last design—of the Browning Hi-Power (P35).[11]

In 1975, the Swiss military replaced the P210 with the P220, dubbed the "Pistole 75", which was the first product of a partnership with J.P. Sauer & Sohn. In a 1984 bidding contest to provide more than 300,000 sidearms to the US military, the SIG Sauer P226 was defeated by Beretta's 92FS which was awarded the contract for the M9 pistol. The SIG SG 510, or Sturmgewehr 57, battle rifle was produced by SIG from 1957 to 1983. Its appearance was vaguely similar to the German MG34 light machine-gun, due to its ventilated barrel jacket. It employed roller-delayed blowback, as used on the CETME/HK rifles.[12] The only general purpose machine gun produced by SIG was the SIG 710-3, which is based on the MG42.[13]

During the 1970s, SIG purchased both Hämmerli[14][15] and J.P. Sauer and Sohn, resulting in the formation of SIG Sauer. Due to Swiss restrictions on the export of military weapons, SIG entered into a relationship with the German company J.P. Sauer & Sohn, in order to give SIG access to the global firearms market.

In January 1985, SIGARMS was established in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, where its handgun models P220 and P230 were imported into the US from Sig Sauer in Germany. In 2007, SIGARMS changed its name to SIG Sauer. SIG Arm's division was purchased in 2000 by L & O Holding,[16] and is now known as SIG SAUER AG.[17]

Railways

In the late 1970s, SIG was the designer and builder of Toronto's newest streetcar, the CLRV L1. Only the first six CLRV cars were made by SIG (out of an order for 10, as the rest were cancelled for cost-saving measures). The remaining 190 L2 vehicles, along with 52 articulated variants, were made by Thunder Bay, Ontario-based Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC), now a subsidiary of Bombardier Transportation, which had, in late 1991, negotiated a $17 million subsidy from the Ontario government for the purchase.[18]

In the early 1980s, SIG was the designer and builder of the Utrecht sneltram trams. 27 were ordered and delivered in 1983. Replacement plans were commenced in 2016 and rolled out in two phases.[citation needed] Scheduled replacement began with first vehicles retired during 2017 - 2018 and final run in July 2020.

The tilting system of the SBB RABDe 500 was developed by SIG. The railway branch of SIG was sold in 1995 to Fiat Ferroviaria.[19]

Packaging

The first packaging machines were produced in 1906 on behalf of the Lausanne-based company SAPAL (Société Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques).

Most of SIG's earlier packaging equipment efforts were focused on small dry food items such as chocolates and candy. Following the 1982 FDA approval of hydrogen peroxide sterilization; on June 28, 1983, SIG acquired Doboy Packaging Machinery, Inc. of Wisconsin. SIG COMBIBLOC INC. was then incorporated on September 1, 1983, in Columbus, Ohio, where production commenced in 1984. In 1989, through the acquisition of PKL in Linnich, Germany, SIG entered the field of aseptic carton liquid packaging, later known as SIG Combibloc.[20][21]

In 2000, SIG concentrated solely on food and beverage packaging technology. Management directed revenues from the sales of SIG Sauer and Rocktools to acquire global businesses, including Krupp Kunstofftechnik (Corpoplast/Blowtec/Kautex brands) and HAMBA in Germany; Ryka Blow Molds in Canada; and a substantial portion of the Italian conglomerate SASIB. The food-related (dry) businesses were organized under the SIG Pack division, while the beverage-related (wet) businesses formed SIG Beverages. Aseptic liquid packaging remained separate under SIG Combibloc.[22]

This strategy, however, was proven not to be effective; Difficulties integrating vastly different businesses and employee cultures resulted in operational execution issues. In particular, high-profile commissioning and installation failures at SIG Beverages in 2003 and 2004 ultimately resulted in significant financial losses. A refocusing towards primarily aseptics and PET blow-molding resulted in a high number of divestitures and plant closures. The former SASIB wet businesses Simonazzi, Alfa and Meyer/Mojonnier were sold to Tetra Laval in 2005, while HAMBA and Kautex and Blowtec were sold separately to private investor groups. The food packaging businesses were sold to Robert Bosch Verpackungstechnik in 2004. The former SASIB dry unit Stewart Systems (bakery products) was sold to UCA Group in 2004, then merged with AMF Bakery Systems in 2008. Laser-guided vehicle manufacturer Elettric 80, part of the 1999 SASIB acquisition, was sold back to its original Italian owners in 2004.[23] The considerably slimmed-down SIG Beverages unit, manufacturer of PET bottle blow-molding machinery, was sold off to the German company Salzgitter AG in March 2008. This sale encompassed the subsidiaries Corpoplast, Asbofill, Plasmax and Moldtec.

SIG Combibloc

Today, SIG Combibloc focuses on aseptic packaging. In 2016, the company introduced Combibloc RS Composite, a composite structural inner layer which increases system stability and reduces the carbon footprint of carton packs.[24] In 2017, SIG introduced the first individual QR codes with digital sourcing transparency, tailored for dairy product consumers.[25]


See also

References

  1. ^ Bloomberg "Company Overview of SIG Combibloc Group AG", Bloomberg Snapshots. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  2. ^ "Listofcompanies.co.in".
  3. ^ Businesswire "Reynolds Group Holdings Limited Announced Closing of Sale of SIG Combibloc Business", March 13, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  4. ^ Visconti, Ambrogio (2018-05-21). "SIG Combibloc Group's $1.1 Billion Syndicated Loan – Global Legal Chronicle". Global Legal Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  5. ^ a b Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch, Schweizerkunde: Land, Volk und Staat, Schwetschke, 1864, p. 512.
  6. ^ a b "History - Sig Sauer". SigSauer.com. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  7. ^ SIG-Geschichte, Baublatt, 21 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Eugène Burnand Biographic Information", "Eugène Burnand, the man, the artist and his work, by René Burnand, MD Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1926 via eugene-burnand.com Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  9. ^ Sig-Sauer Law Enforcement 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Firestone, Adam C. "Historic Firearm of the Month, February 2001". Cruffler.com. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Sig P210". ForgottenWeapons.com. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  12. ^ "SIG Stgw 57". ForgottenWeapons.com. 23 September 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  13. ^ "Modern Firearms - SIG MG 710". Guns.ru. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  14. ^ GmbH, CARL WALTHER. "Home - Hämmerli Website". Haemmerli.info. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  15. ^ "SIG-Hammerli Trailside/X-Esse". TonyBrong.Blogspot.com. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  16. ^ Samsel, Aaron (31 May 2013). "SIG SAUER Parent Company Buys GSG, supplier of SIG 1911-22 Handguns". Guns.com. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  17. ^ Kapella, Jürgen. "Swiss Arms: Startseite". SwissArms.ch. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  18. ^ Farnsworth, Clyde H. "Bombardier Returns to Earth", The New York Times, December 28, 1991. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  19. ^ "The Northlander". UWyo.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  20. ^ Shurtleff, W., et al History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Austria and Switzerland (1781-2015), by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, Soyinfo Center, 2015, page 564. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  21. ^ Ohio-Register "SIG COMBIBLOC INC.", ohio-register.com. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  22. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-01-31.
  23. ^ Pontecorvo,Laura "Elettric 80: the Eagle is back! — Elettric 80, which has become 100% Italian again after a few years spent in the Swiss group SIG, confirms its character as innovative company in the field of integrated logistics systems", Perini Journal (PJL-23), 2004. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  24. ^ "Germany's SIG Combibloc develops new combibloc RS composite structure for carton packs", RISI Technology Channels, December 15, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  25. ^ "SIG Combibloc & Languiru Cooperative Launch New Digital Technology", Brand Packaging Magazine, May 31, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2018.

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Swiss Industrial Company in French as Societe Industrielle Suisse and in Italian as Societa Industriale Svizzera and later known as SIG Holding AG 1 is a company currently active in the Packaging industry but used to participate in firearms and railcar manufacturing as well 2 SIG Combibloc Group AGTypePrivatePredecessorSIG Holding AGFounded1853 1853 HeadquartersNeuhausen am Rheinfall canton of Schaffhausen SwitzerlandKey peopleSamuel Sigrist CEOProductsLiquid food and beverage packagingServicesAseptic cartons filling equipment and serviceRevenue 1 721 billion 2015 Number of employeesc 5500 2021 DivisionsSIG Combibloc SIG ObeikanWebsitewww wbr sig wbr bizSIG buildings in Neuhausen am Rheinfall Switzerland In 2007 SIG Holding AG was acquired by Rank Group Limited the private investment company of New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart and operated under its subsidiary Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd which in March 2015 announced completion of its sale of SIG to ONEX Corporation of Canada 3 In 2018 SIG Combibloc secured a 1 101 billion loan with Barclays Bank acting as the administrative agent on the transaction 4 The SIG Combibloc Group shares are listed on SIX Swiss Exchange and it is a component of the SMI MID index Contents 1 History 1 1 Firearms 1 2 Railways 2 Packaging 2 1 SIG Combibloc 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditThe schweizerische Waggonfabrik 5 Swiss Wagon Factory was founded in 1853 by Friedrich Peyer im Hof Heinrich Moser and Johann Conrad Neher 6 From 1854 it produced railway cars for the emerging Swiss railway companies Friedrich Peyer was one of the directors of the Swiss Northeastern Railway also founded in 1853 Their factory in Neuhausen am Rheinfall was originally powered by the nearby Rhine Falls and employed 150 workers 7 by the mid 1860s increased to 500 workers 5 Firearms Edit They produced the Prelaz Burnand 1859 invented by gunsmith Jean Louis Joseph Prelaz and forestry inspector Colonel Ėdouard Burnand father of Swiss painter Eugene Burnand In 1860 the rifle won a competition held by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Defence resulting in a contract to produce 30 000 pieces 8 This rifle was adapted as the M1863 Upon receiving the contract to produce rifles the company name was changed to reflect its new emphasis on machined production becoming Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft SIG in English Swiss Industrial Company and in French Societe Industrielle Suisse 6 9 SIG produced other firearms including Mondragon Rifle which was produced between 1908 and 1910 10 The SIG P210 pistol was developed in 1937 based on the French Modele 1935 pistol and was adopted by the Swiss military in 1949 as the Pistole 49 This pistol s frame design incorporates external rails that fit closely with the slide thus eliminating play in the mechanism during firing The P210 was noted for its good accuracy citation needed The Petter Browning patent was a refinement and John Moses Browning s last design of the Browning Hi Power P35 11 In 1975 the Swiss military replaced the P210 with the P220 dubbed the Pistole 75 which was the first product of a partnership with J P Sauer amp Sohn In a 1984 bidding contest to provide more than 300 000 sidearms to the US military the SIG Sauer P226 was defeated by Beretta s 92FS which was awarded the contract for the M9 pistol The SIG SG 510 or Sturmgewehr 57 battle rifle was produced by SIG from 1957 to 1983 Its appearance was vaguely similar to the German MG34 light machine gun due to its ventilated barrel jacket It employed roller delayed blowback as used on the CETME HK rifles 12 The only general purpose machine gun produced by SIG was the SIG 710 3 which is based on the MG42 13 During the 1970s SIG purchased both Hammerli 14 15 and J P Sauer and Sohn resulting in the formation of SIG Sauer Due to Swiss restrictions on the export of military weapons SIG entered into a relationship with the German company J P Sauer amp Sohn in order to give SIG access to the global firearms market In January 1985 SIGARMS was established in Tyson s Corner Virginia where its handgun models P220 and P230 were imported into the US from Sig Sauer in Germany In 2007 SIGARMS changed its name to SIG Sauer SIG Arm s division was purchased in 2000 by L amp O Holding 16 and is now known as SIG SAUER AG 17 Railways Edit In the late 1970s SIG was the designer and builder of Toronto s newest streetcar the CLRV L1 Only the first six CLRV cars were made by SIG out of an order for 10 as the rest were cancelled for cost saving measures The remaining 190 L2 vehicles along with 52 articulated variants were made by Thunder Bay Ontario based Urban Transportation Development Corporation UTDC now a subsidiary of Bombardier Transportation which had in late 1991 negotiated a 17 million subsidy from the Ontario government for the purchase 18 In the early 1980s SIG was the designer and builder of the Utrecht sneltram trams 27 were ordered and delivered in 1983 Replacement plans were commenced in 2016 and rolled out in two phases citation needed Scheduled replacement began with first vehicles retired during 2017 2018 and final run in July 2020 The tilting system of the SBB RABDe 500 was developed by SIG The railway branch of SIG was sold in 1995 to Fiat Ferroviaria 19 SBB RABDe 500 SIG built CLRV L1 4004 in Toronto SBB RAm TEE I train set in ONR Northlander servicePackaging EditThe first packaging machines were produced in 1906 on behalf of the Lausanne based company SAPAL Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques Most of SIG s earlier packaging equipment efforts were focused on small dry food items such as chocolates and candy Following the 1982 FDA approval of hydrogen peroxide sterilization on June 28 1983 SIG acquired Doboy Packaging Machinery Inc of Wisconsin SIG COMBIBLOC INC was then incorporated on September 1 1983 in Columbus Ohio where production commenced in 1984 In 1989 through the acquisition of PKL in Linnich Germany SIG entered the field of aseptic carton liquid packaging later known as SIG Combibloc 20 21 In 2000 SIG concentrated solely on food and beverage packaging technology Management directed revenues from the sales of SIG Sauer and Rocktools to acquire global businesses including Krupp Kunstofftechnik Corpoplast Blowtec Kautex brands and HAMBA in Germany Ryka Blow Molds in Canada and a substantial portion of the Italian conglomerate SASIB The food related dry businesses were organized under the SIG Pack division while the beverage related wet businesses formed SIG Beverages Aseptic liquid packaging remained separate under SIG Combibloc 22 This strategy however was proven not to be effective Difficulties integrating vastly different businesses and employee cultures resulted in operational execution issues In particular high profile commissioning and installation failures at SIG Beverages in 2003 and 2004 ultimately resulted in significant financial losses A refocusing towards primarily aseptics and PET blow molding resulted in a high number of divestitures and plant closures The former SASIB wet businesses Simonazzi Alfa and Meyer Mojonnier were sold to Tetra Laval in 2005 while HAMBA and Kautex and Blowtec were sold separately to private investor groups The food packaging businesses were sold to Robert Bosch Verpackungstechnik in 2004 The former SASIB dry unit Stewart Systems bakery products was sold to UCA Group in 2004 then merged with AMF Bakery Systems in 2008 Laser guided vehicle manufacturer Elettric 80 part of the 1999 SASIB acquisition was sold back to its original Italian owners in 2004 23 The considerably slimmed down SIG Beverages unit manufacturer of PET bottle blow molding machinery was sold off to the German company Salzgitter AG in March 2008 This sale encompassed the subsidiaries Corpoplast Asbofill Plasmax and Moldtec SIG Combibloc Edit Today SIG Combibloc focuses on aseptic packaging In 2016 the company introduced Combibloc RS Composite a composite structural inner layer which increases system stability and reduces the carbon footprint of carton packs 24 In 2017 SIG introduced the first individual QR codes with digital sourcing transparency tailored for dairy product consumers 25 See also Edit Companies portalTetraPakReferences Edit Bloomberg Company Overview of SIG Combibloc Group AG Bloomberg Snapshots Retrieved July 29 2018 Listofcompanies co in Businesswire Reynolds Group Holdings Limited Announced Closing of Sale of SIG Combibloc Business March 13 2015 Retrieved August 22 2018 Visconti Ambrogio 2018 05 21 SIG Combibloc Group s 1 1 Billion Syndicated Loan Global Legal Chronicle Global Legal Chronicle Retrieved 2020 03 23 a b Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch Schweizerkunde Land Volk und Staat Schwetschke 1864 p 512 a b History Sig Sauer SigSauer com Retrieved 29 April 2017 SIG Geschichte Baublatt 21 September 2017 Eugene Burnand Biographic Information Eugene Burnand the man the artist and his work by Rene Burnand MD Berger Levrault Paris 1926 via eugene burnand com Retrieved August 30 2018 Sig Sauer Law Enforcement Archived 2012 03 11 at the Wayback Machine Firestone Adam C Historic Firearm of the Month February 2001 Cruffler com Retrieved 29 April 2017 Sig P210 ForgottenWeapons com 2 December 2011 Retrieved 29 April 2017 SIG Stgw 57 ForgottenWeapons com 23 September 2011 Retrieved 29 April 2017 Modern Firearms SIG MG 710 Guns ru 27 October 2010 Retrieved 29 April 2017 GmbH CARL WALTHER Home Hammerli Website Haemmerli info Retrieved 29 April 2017 SIG Hammerli Trailside X Esse TonyBrong Blogspot com Retrieved 29 April 2017 Samsel Aaron 31 May 2013 SIG SAUER Parent Company Buys GSG supplier of SIG 1911 22 Handguns Guns com Retrieved 29 April 2017 Kapella Jurgen Swiss Arms Startseite SwissArms ch Retrieved 29 April 2017 Farnsworth Clyde H Bombardier Returns to Earth The New York Times December 28 1991 Retrieved August 31 2018 The Northlander UWyo edu Retrieved 29 April 2017 Shurtleff W et al History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Austria and Switzerland 1781 2015 by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi Soyinfo Center 2015 page 564 Retrieved August 22 2018 Ohio Register SIG COMBIBLOC INC ohio register com Retrieved August 22 2018 SIG Global Archived from the original on 2013 01 31 Pontecorvo Laura Elettric 80 the Eagle is back Elettric 80 which has become 100 Italian again after a few years spent in the Swiss group SIG confirms its character as innovative company in the field of integrated logistics systems Perini Journal PJL 23 2004 Retrieved August 31 2018 Germany s SIG Combibloc develops new combibloc RS composite structure for carton packs RISI Technology Channels December 15 2016 Retrieved August 22 2018 SIG Combibloc amp Languiru Cooperative Launch New Digital Technology Brand Packaging Magazine May 31 2017 Retrieved August 22 2018 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft Official website SIG Group LinkedIn Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title SIG Combibloc Group amp 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