Welcome to Matthews Engineering
Polytype ConvertingA Matthews Engineering brand.
Polytype Converting is pleased to announce its integration as a brand under Matthews Engineering, a business unit within the division of Matthews Industrial Technologies. While our digital presence has shifted, our commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction remains.
Polytype Converting is your partner for advanced production machinery, turning ideas into industrial reality with precision, creativity, and expertise. From coating lines for technical films, decorative surfaces, and battery materials, to entire plant systems engineered for efficiency and reliability – our solutions are crafted to elevate production standards.
Through Matthews Engineering, our customers benefit from expanded capabilities, a global support structure, and a unified portfolio built to serve complex industries and ambitious innovation strategies.
As part of Matthews Engineering, Polytype Converting’s full portfolio of solutions, expertise, and project insights is now available through the Matthews Engineering platform, reflecting our ongoing dedication to delivering cutting-edge, scalable solutions to meet the evolving needs of our global clients.
Matthews Engineering is an architect of engineering solutions, specializing in the design and manufacture of specialty machines and production equipment for demanding, continuous industrial manufacturing processes.
With over 75 years of experience and a legacy of trusted brands – Saueressig Engineering, Olbrich, and Polytype Converting – we provide intelligent processes, technical excellence, and unmatched precision for future-proof production technologies.
From lab-scale formulation to full-scale production, we combine deep engineering expertise with a comprehensive understanding of materials and process behavior, to help customers optimize resources, increase efficiency, and accelerate innovations.
Our differentiators? Our core technologies cover all crucial process steps like calendering, coating, embossing, laminating, and printing – empowering future-focused industries to transform complex substrates into high-performance products where precision, reliability, and efficiency are essential. Through our global Development Centers, we enable customers to simulate, validate, and scale new processes under real-world conditions, ensuring a seamless transfer into series production.
We engineer the foundation for industrial innovation – with precision.