New production facility for self-adhesive material

With the inauguration of the new coating plant at its Filderstadt headquarters, HERMA will extend its production capacity for self-adhesive materials by 50 percent from now 800 million square metres to 1.2 billion square metres – this is approximately the size of New York City. The first test runs of coating technology and material handling, which will be robot-assisted for the first time, are scheduled to take place in summer 2019. “The new plant will enable us to produce new self-adhesive materials, and particularly to extend our portfolio in the film-based materials sector, which is experiencing fast growth”, emphasizes Managing Director Dr. Thomas Baumgärtner, who also heads the Self-Adhesive Materials Division. The new part of the company is already taking visible shape. The construction process is pushing people and materials alike to the extreme, with regard to both height and depth of the building. The complete building will, for instance, be erected on 460 specialist concrete support pillars which are sunk into the ground to a depth of more than 12 metres due to the ground conditions.