Advertising material: Mainteam makes small packaging and large boards look good.
Some customer names are top addresses: Bayer AG, ADLER fashion stores, the "Depot" chain of Gries, the small electrical appliance manufacturer SEB with brands like Rowenta, Krups and Moulinex. Mainteam Bild Text Kommunikation GmbH from Aschaffenburg supplies them with printed matter - from medicine boxes and brochures to advertising boards for sales stands.
Mainteam employee Daniel Brückner is just bending over such a board, checking the colours. Soon the board will be in Austrian supermarkets advertising coffee. "Large-format printing" is the name of the technique used to produce such panels. The 31-year-old media specialist Brückner and managing director Gerhard Jung (52) are proud to have a modern machine for this complex printing technology in the building in Goldbacher Straße.
Even though Mainteam GmbH moves with the times, it is a company with tradition. Founded in 1949 as "Chemigraphische", it produced printing templates for our newspaper.
Facts and figures: Mainteam GmbH
Aschaffenburg-based Mainteam GmbH sees itself as a specialist for "media design, image retouching, photography, digital and large format printing". The employees make brochure photos shine, create packaging designs and dress trade fair stands with advertising messages - to name just a few services. At Goldbacher Straße 14, customers can have their projects developed from start to finish. The company, which is rich in tradition, advertises with the certification ProcessStandard Offset Printing according to ISO 12647-2. c.m. Online at: www.mainteam.de
In 2002, the Main-Echo shareholders made Mainteam GmbH independent; today, besides Jung, the managing director and shareholder is Udo Krebs (59). Since the early days, the product range has changed enormously: "Hardly any industry has changed as much in recent years as the production of printed matter," the industry journal "Plakativ" reported last year. "Mainteam GmbH has been following all the new paths for decades." The company is still profiting from this long experience today, the employees feel. "We have a background in traditional typesetting and have a sound basic knowledge," says Daniel Brückner, who also heads the digital printing department. "We combine this with the latest technology.
This results in products that we encounter in everyday life, but for which we consumers rarely ask ourselves how they come about. "Customer stoppers", for example, are folding frames on the pavement that are supposed to draw passers-by into the shop with high-quality advertising boards. Exhibition stands with company messages wrapped around them are just as much a part of this as "roll-ups": These easily portable advertising banners, which can be quickly pulled up from their housing on event stages, are available from Mainteam even made of cardboard - the product line is called "Greenline". "Companies are paying more and more attention to environmentally friendly products," says Daniel Brückner.
For a company with 25 employees - a staff that has been stable for years - the range of products is surprisingly extensive. One speciality is advertising material that includes lacquer photos. Much can be done in-house, for example in the company's own photo studio. Everything boils down to "high-quality print products", says Brückner.
For this purpose, Mainteam sometimes even rolls a clothes rack with the collection of a fashion house into the office. Because in the brochure that Mainteam is working on, the textiles should have the same colour as the reality that we consumers encounter in the shop.
Claus Morhart
