Asteria Group has acquired GT Etiketten & Labels, a Schoonebeek-based label manufacturer, adding a second production site in the Netherlands to its European network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
GT Etiketten prints digitally and flexographically, with eight-colour UV LED flexographic capability and in-house blank label production. Its label constructions include duo-layer multilayer formats. The company supplies food labelling, beverage, and cosmetics markets across a range of materials and adhesives.
What the site adds
The Schoonebeek location fills a geographic gap in Asteria's existing Dutch footprint. The stated intent is to share capacity, knowledge, and specialist capabilities across the wider network rather than run GT Etiketten as a standalone unit. Customers of GT Etiketten will, according to Asteria, gain access to the group's broader packaging technologies.
CEO Ives Declerck described GT Etiketten as technically strong, flexible, and close to its customers, and said the company's local knowledge and entrepreneurial approach would connect with Asteria's wider capabilities without sacrificing the speed and personal service the Dutch business is known for.
Pace of acquisitions
The deal follows Asteria's acquisition of Mercian Labels last month, a UK self-adhesive label producer operating from Burntwood, Staffordshire, which brought Asteria's production location count to 41. Mercian produces flexographic and digital output, including inkjet, with finishing options, and was described by Asteria as broadening its presence in the UK labels market.
GT Etiketten becomes Asteria's 42nd site by that count, though Asteria has not confirmed that figure explicitly. What the source does confirm: two acquisitions in consecutive months, both in the self-adhesive label segment, both with flexographic and digital print at their core, and both in markets, food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, where label specification is tight and customer proximity matters.