Baysek Machines Celebrates 25 Years Of Customer-Focused Innovation
According to the calendar and business records in the company’s archives, Baysek Machines, Inc. incorporated in 1995 after its birth in a steel shed in Amherst, Wisconsin, a rural village about 75 miles west of Green Bay.
Its 25 years of endurance and success in the ever-competitive corrugated industry, however, can be attributed to the blood, sweat and tears of the company’s founder, David “Dave” Helbach. In the decades prior, Helbach was amassing the knowledge and wherewithal to design and develop a flat cutting die system to accommodate a rotary anvil cutting process, the system at the heart of Baysek’s innovative contribution to the industry. The Entrepreneurial Spirit Born and raised in Amherst, Helbach is a self-admitted “farm boy who The Baysek team in front of their flagship product, the C-170 die cutter.
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didn’t like milking cows,” but grew up being intrigued by all things mechanical. Dave’s eagerness to make use of his inquisitive mindset contributed to the start-up and op- eration of five different business- es in the corrugated industry be- tween the years of 1966 and 1993. Helbach claimed he “retired” from business in 1993 at the age of 58. Never one to idly enjoy what many consider their golden years, Helbach “leisurely” began devel- oping a simple die cutting pro- cess for a business friend. “I met a machine manufacturer from En- gland at a Düsseldorf trade show, demonstrating what I considered a
Baysek Machines, Inc. founder, Dave Helbach.
very clever concept and convinced my friend to buy a machine,” says Hel- bach. “There was one major problem, however. The die cutter didn’t work at performance levels expected and desired.”
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