Surteco wants to merge its European decor printing activities in a company that will do business as Surteco Decor and will be based in Buttenwiesen-Pfaffenhofen by the end of 2014. In a first step, Bausch Decor GmbH was renamed Surteco Decor GmbH with an entry into the commercial register on 20 June.

The company’s management team stayed the same. Dr Gereon Schäfer and Dieter Baumans had taken over the reins at Bausch Decor from Wolfgang Buchhart at the start of 2010 when Bausch Decor merged with BauschLinnemann. Reinhold Affhüppe also joined Bausch Decor’s management team in mid-December 2013. Ralf Schuler has been commercial director since 18 June. He also held this role at other companies within Surteco’s Pa-per division up to 1 July.