IMA Klessmann GmbH of Luebbecke, Germany and Schelling Anlagenbau of Schwarzach, Austria are announcing that they will further strengthen their North American Strategic Alliance. The German manufacturer of high end panel processing solutions and the Austrian specialist of state of the art cut to size systems have been cooperating globally on the sales and marketing side for decades. This collaboration will now be extended in the North American market and will include the after sales service as well. Both companies have also announced Peter Tuenker will now be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of both companies Schelling America and IMA America, located in Morrisville, NC. Additionally both companies will continue to promote their concerted market approach. A good example is the combined booth of both companies at this year’s IWF show in Atlanta, GA from August 25th to August 28th, 2010.
Both companies have been active with their own offices in North America for many years. IMA America was founded in 1998 as a link between the North American customers and IMA technology “Made in Germany”. The roots of Schelling America go back to 1986 when Schelling America was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In 2007 the Strategic North American Alliance between IMA America and Schelling America was announced to strengthen the ability of both companies to offer solutions to all of their North American customers. Since that announcement Schelling America and IMA America have worked out of the same sales- and service office in Morrisville, North Carolina. With this success the number of employees for both companies grew to 35 employees working for both companies today.
“High end technology providers like IMA and Schelling have the responsibility to be partners for to their customers when it comes to system solutions and services”, says IMA Klessmann Managing Director Ruediger Schliekmann. “It only makes sense to expand our North American Alliance to include the broad area of after sales services. This is also what our customers asked us to do”.
Peter Tuenker, General Manager of Schelling America and IMA America adds: “The product portfolios of the two companies complement each other perfectly. This next step in our strategic alliance enables us to shorten the response time to our customers even more and allows us to assign one contact to our customers for all their questions concerning their production needs.
Wolfgang Rohner, Managing Director of Schelling Anlagenbau GmbH remarks that: “Not only are Schelling and IMA technology leaders in their product segments they also stand for the same philosophy. They want to guarantee their customers the highest production availability of their equipment and quickest return of investment by consulting with their customers and designing the most innovative solutions for their needs”.
Schelling Anlagenbau GmbH is one of the oldest and most successful manufacturers of industrial panel saws in the world. For more than nine decades Schelling Anlagenbau has been manufacturing cut to size saws and systems for the wood industry as well as the plastics, metal and printed circuit board industry worldwide. Schelling Anlagenbau employs more than 360 employees in locations around the world like Austria, England, Slovakia, Poland, Singapore (Australia) and China.
IMA Klessmann, manufacturer and system provider of complex panel processing systems, has been an important partner to the woodworking industry and small shops for more than 50 years. With more than 800 people working for IMA worldwide and its presence in more than 60 countries, IMA ranks at the top for technology leadership in its industry. The IMA product range consists of machines for panel processing and panel sizing for the woodworking industry.
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