About us
Plastoreg is one of today’s leading European manufacturers of plastic and card dividers. On this page we would like to let you have a glance behind the scenes to give you an idea of the concepts and beliefs, the people, and also the facts and figures which make up this company.
The idea of concentrating exclusively on the production of dividers was originally born in 1970 in a Frankfurt basement where the company founders, Margitte and Hans-Dieter Smidt, started up a manual divider production as a side-line. As demand increased and the company grew, Plastoreg gained a competence, efficiency and cost leadership that is now much appreciated by our customers.
We have built up efficient structures which allow us to adapt quickly to changing customer demand and market requirements. As a result, in the 80’s the company began the split into two divisions, one for standard office products and the other for the bespoke side of the business. In 1992 a new production site was built at Kirchgandern, Thuringia, from where the standard range of products has since been manufactured and marketed. The space gained at the original site at Witzenhausen, Hesse, could then be utilised for the expanding specials division - especially our litho printing and Mylar department.
The idea of concentrating exclusively on the production of dividers was originally born in 1970 in a Frankfurt basement where the company founders, Margitte and Hans-Dieter Smidt, started up a manual divider production as a side-line. As demand increased and the company grew, Plastoreg gained a competence, efficiency and cost leadership that is now much appreciated by our customers.
With the support of our customers, Plastoreg has developed to what it is today, a medium-sized company with
- two separate production sites,
- 150 employees,
- a turnover of 27 million Euro,
- an export quota of 55 %.
At the end of 2007, the founders, Margitte and Hans-Dieter Smidt, handed over the management of the business to Hubertus Rohe (standard division) and their son Uwe Smidt (specials division) and sold the company to the Asia File Group at the same time. With this merger, competitors became partners and instead of letting ourselves become pressurized by competition from the Far East, we are joining forces and consolidating our competitive position by strengthening our market presence in order to become even more efficient for the future.