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Dealing in used machines for more than 25 years: Lange GmbH.

Someone who produces boxes needs machines. They do not have to be always new, though. Often, a good used one serves the same purpose. But: Where to get one? For this case, there is a place to go - Carl Ingolf Lange. This man is an institution in matters of "machines for boxes".

The company of Carl Ingolf Lange GmbH Investitionen has been buying and selling used machines for producing boxes for a quarter of a century. In this connection, it is actually acting absolutely globally. This is only possible with a network closely woven over decades and thanks to an elaborate website. On www.lange.de, more than 350 machines are always available: arranged by subject, including detailed description and original picture. You will find really everything there - from automatic die cutters as well as glueing machines, window patching machines, autoplaten, platen, stamping machines, laminating equipment, wrapping machines up to cutting machines.

Most of these machines are also examined personally, for Lange attaches greatest importance to integrity - and to an intensive phase of advice in which he can bring to bear his great competence to the advantage of his customers: "Give me a drawing of a box or a sample, and I tell you which machine you need!" But he also notices: "In this branch of the trade in used machines, just too many dishonest companies are around that sense a quick business but do not know a thing about the machines they sell."

Lange GmbH not only sells - on request, it also takes care of dismounting, worldwide dispatch, re-installation and staff training at the machine purchased.

The question arises: What makes someone specialize himself in such a way? A look into the history of the founder of the company, Carl Ingolf Lange, explains it. In his father's cardboard factory, Lange learns the business from scratch. In 1983, he stands on his own feet with his know-how and starts his trade with second-hand machines for producing boxes - from "demonstration models" as good as new to "oldtimers". At least 25 years later, Lange has gathered a team around him that can take him on regarding specialist knowledge any time. While he is travelling through the world maintaining contacts with prospective buyers and sellers, his team in the South German head office in Ludwigsburg and in the Thai branch holds the fort.

However, Lange's enterprise is increasingly worrying about competitors from the Far East: "In Asia, machines are produced that are as low priced in new condition as European used ones. Whether they work just as accurately and faultlessly and whether they last even half as long- this is of little interest to the buyers during these hard times."