History

1992

Successful implementation of a standard system within a Folding Carton company. Foundation of Dr. Lauterbach & Partner GmbH with 3 employees.

1993

Decision for the standard software Baan, pilot project for Folding Carton and Display.

1994

Solution design for a leading company within the corrugated industry. First folding carton project in Lorraine/ France.

1995

Development of industry add ons. Solution design of a business model for extruded paper for a Finnish packaging group.

1996

Leading Folding Carton companies with more than 20 sites within Germany and Austria decide to use the LP.Solution. Development of additional industry add-ons. Software Partner Agreement with Baan.

1997

Project completion for flexibles packaging. Leading Manufacturer of tobacco packaging with 8 sites in Europe decides in favor for LP.

1998

Leading manufacturer of flexibles packaging decides in favor for LP. Upgrading the industry solution for flexibles packaging. Acquisition of company building. Start of cooperation with University of Applied Sciences.

1999

Roll out for european sites of a major packaging company. World market leader for Decor Paper with six sites chooses LP. for the implementation of SAP R/3.

2002

Leading manufacturer for corrugated packaging, displays and folding carton with 8 sites entrusts LP. with the SAP implementation.

2003

LP. becomes SAP Business Partner.

2004

Leading manufacturer for flexibles packaging decides in favor of SAP and LP. Upgrading the existing industry solution for flexibles packaging. Renowned Swiss packaging company with 180 employees (specialized in manufacturing of folding cartons for pharmaceutical industry) decides in favor for LP. Packaging.

2005

Launching SAP based industry solution for packaging industry LP.Packaging. LP. becomes member of CIP4.
LP. signs contract for implementing LP.Packaging for the packaging division of an Indian corporate with annual turnover of 3 Billion US Dollar. The Indian packaging company produces mainly folding carton and flexible packaging with most modern machinery at two sites in India. The complete implementation was done in a record implementation time of less than five months with assistance from SAP India.

2006

LP. presents the first SAP-JDF interface worldwide for MAN Roland printing machines and BOBST finishing machines at the IPEX in Birmingham.
Leading Swiss folding carton company with two sites decides in favor of LP.Packaging. LP. becomes implementation partner for a leading packaging corporate group in Switzerland with subsidiaries in West- and East Europe.
The implementation in corrugated and finishing plants is also planned after implementing the display and folding carton division.
LP. supports SAP Consulting America with implementing SAP ERP for the worldwide largest manufacturer for flexibles packaging products.

2007

LP. announces implementation of the first SAP-JDF interface with the worldwide leading preproduction workflow solution from EskoArtwork at a midsize manufacturer of flexibles packaging.
LP. and MAN Roland establish strategic partnership.

2008

World First JDF integration of the Heidelberg Prinect packaging workflow with the SAP ERP based industry solution LP.Packaging.
LP. and ITC Infotech have concluded a partner agreement on the 6th of February 2008 for the provision of value added IT services to global customers in the printing and packaging industry. Both, LP. and ITC Infotech will bring in their core strengths to offer unbeatable value of industry domain skills and global delivery model to provide customers with a competitive advantage. As SAP Service Partner and with its offices in India, UK and North America and a fast growing business consulting team with packaging background -the parent company ITC operates paper and packaging plants- ITC Infotech is the perfect partner for LP. to position and implement SAP-based LP. solutions globally.
As a co-exhibitor, LP. showcases the latest release of LP.Packaging at drupe 2008 on the booths of its partners EskoArtwork, MAN Roland, Bobst and Heidelberg.