Martin Fix
With 30 years of experience in the wooden packaging industry, I have already solved many challenges—I would like to repeat that.
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Less load. More impact.
Collaborative thinking
instead of going solo
The market for industrial packaging, wooden packaging, and pallets is highly fragmented. Countless suppliers, many of them regionally based but operating independently, find themselves in an environment characterized by regulatory pressure, a shortage of skilled workers, and increasing demands. This makes it clear that future security can no longer be achieved alone.
ARCA is our answer to this challenge. We relieve medium-sized companies of the tasks that everyone has to deal with anyway – administration, compliance, IT, accounting, and so on. This creates space for what really matters: their own craft, customer satisfaction, the core of their business.
Each member company remains what it is and retains its identity, its face, and its history. Because people buy from people, not from interchangeable brand shells.
Our goal is to build a geographically smart group that strengthens each other, pools capacities, and shares know-how. A network that does not level, but connects. For more clout and more future.
These are the people behind the ARCA Group
Stefan Jochum
Arca is a matter close to my heart—the wood packaging industry is in my blood.
Björn Scharnhorst
Exportverpackung Sehnde GmbH is part of the ARCA Group, and now I help entrepreneurs secure their future. For me, ARCA combines the best of both worlds: independence and community.
Thorben Scharnhorst
My family has been involved in the packaging industry for generations. Today, I bring this experience to bear as an integration manager—with the aim not of changing companies, but of strengthening them.
Johanna Röck
I am thrilled by how we work together to optimize processes, leverage synergies, and thus pave the way for business growth—without losing the independence of our companies.
Thorsten Gröner
ARCA is not an anonymous corporation or a typical fund – we are a team of people who are passionate about what we do. We listen, understand our clients' challenges and tackle them together. It is precisely this passion that makes us successful.
Gian Waltert
I am fascinated by how differently entrepreneurial personalities think and how much you can learn from this. It is extremely exciting to delve deeply into every company and really understand its structures, culture and dynamics.
Support through experience, not regulations
How to join the ARCA Group
ARCA is not a traditional investment model in which entrepreneurial thinking is replaced by anonymous structures. On the contrary: every member company has the opportunity to invest financially in the ARCA Group. This means that entrepreneurship is not just a title, but a living reality – with genuine co-determination and economic participation.
To ensure a successful start and ease the day-to-day workload, experienced integration managers are on hand to support the companies. They are contact persons, sparring partners, and bridge builders all in one. Their goal is not to dictate procedures, but to find solutions together, improve processes, and unlock potential.
Those who become part of ARCA remain entrepreneurs. And at the same time, they gain strong partners at their side.
Thorben Scharnhorst
Björn Scharnhorst
Sound judgment and foresight. That’s ARCA.
Think long term,
act responsibly
ARCA is not focused on quick profits, but rather on stable development over many years. Decisions regarding personnel, investments, or processes are not based on short-term profit targets, but rather on a long-term plan that focuses on substance and sustainability.
The aim is not to scale up as quickly as possible, but to grow healthily together, with a clear strategy, entrepreneurial acumen, and patience. Because we are convinced that the future is not created by speed, but by depth. Those who act responsibly today will remain successful tomorrow.
This creates a network that is not aimed at quick success, but at lasting strength. For companies that want to stay. Not for those that are to be sold.
Analyst
Gian Waltert
We guarantee respectful and discreet treatment.
The ARCA “Green Deal”
With the Green Deal, ARCA is set to replace the CONSTELLATION VI fund as co-owner in the coming years. This will ensure the long-term independence of the ARCA Group, leverage growth potential in a large and dynamic market, and at the same time create scope for flexible future options. The values and spirit within the group will be consolidated and continued in the long term, regardless of any financing structures. This is entirely in line with cross-generational planning and forward-looking action.
