Made in Germany –
Made for the world

High Performance Counting

Let´s count on our solutions

Founded in 1964, Köster GmbH originally started out as a model-making company and has since evolved into a leading global supplier of counting technology.

The combination of our many years of experience and our understanding of how to implement customer requirements is our basis for responding to the constant market demands for flexibility and quality.

Adherence to delivery dates and fair business practices are just as important to us as the necessary discretion towards our customers.

Counting Machines

Counting Discs

HELIX Code Capturing

Counting Mechanisms

Why Köster?

The advantages of choosing us…

Most advanced and innovative supplier of counting technology.

Over 30 years of development and manufacturing.

Market leader:
More than 6,000
counting discs sold.

Unique applications range:
30 – 1,100 GSM
40 – 900 μm.

Inventor of the side edge counting:

Eliminates the limitations of classic corner counting.
Free choice of counting position across the edge length of the sheet.

Inventor of the pneumatic counting head weight compensation:

Minimising the risk of marks or traces on the product during counting.
Processing of specifically very light or heavy products.

Inventor of the corner- and edge curl compensation system:

Integrated compensation of geometric product deformations.
Automatic adjustment of compensation level during the counting process.

Inventor of the HELIX CC system:

The globally unique system for capturing printed codes on the side edge of each sheet during the counting process of a complete ream.

The world’s largest range of counting discs ensures damage-free counting of:

Products based on cellulose
Coated products

Cotton-based products
Hybrid products

Cardboard-based products
Laminated products

Polymer-based products
And much more…

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Made in Germany –
Made for the world