About us

Innovative, efficient and flexible - KOHLSCHEIN is a well-qualified and reliable partner for the paper and cardboard industry as well as for the printing and advertising technology sector, for design and advertising agencies, retailers and brand-name products.

Established in 1932 by Ewald Kohlschein, the family business can now look back on over 85 years of company history.

KOHLSCHEIN GmbH & Co. KG has three main business areas:

Production & Distribution

KOHLSCHEIN is a leading manufacturer of eco-friendly display boards made from renewable paper fibre resources - based in Germany.
In addition, we are an established distributor in Germany and Switzerland for lightweight foam boards from 3A Composites and other manufacturers of large format rigid media for signs & display.

We offer our customers a wide range of high-quality rigid boards for offset / screen / direct-to-substrate digital printing, large format imaging, photo mounting & graphic arts.

Our product range in the field of Production & Distribution:

KROMA DISPLAY BOARD | KROMA OUTDOOR | KROMA KRAFT | KROMA NATURAL WHITE | EKA WOOD PULP BOARD | STUDIOCARD | MIRRI | FALCONBOARD | KAPA | FOAM-X | GATORFOAM | SMART-X | AKYLITE | AKYPRINT | HYLITE | DIBOND

Materials & Products

Converting Services

Our skilled staff, a modern machinery and flexible work flow enables us to offer various converting services as well as the processing of all kind of paper boards, foamboards & synthetic panels.

For paper & cardboard mills - as also specialised wholesalers - we offer reel-to-sheet lamination services (contract manufacturing). For the graphic industry we offer sheet-to-sheet lamination, die-cutting & digital cutting, customizing of foamboards & other rigid boards (ACM / PVC etc.).

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Creative solutions at the P.O.S.

The buyer's attention and interest are constantly being sought at the POS, with the hope of triggering desire and then spontaneous purchases decisions.

The advertising media at the POS are therefore particularly important in sales promotion.

Decoration materials and displays have an immediate effect on the target group: attention grabbing, awaking interest, stimulating desire and eliciting that purchase.

We have more than 30-years experience in developing and producing advertising and presentation materials for the POS. Our customers' needs are extremely diverse, as are the customised solutions which we develop.