OUR HISTORY
In 1984, right after his formal education in graphic arts, Ronald Mekes started working in his father’s business trading graphic art machines. One year later, in 1985, Ronald was encouraged by his father to start his own company. Together with his wife Edith, they founded their own company: Grafische Handelsonderneming Ronald Mekes B.V.
Working hard from the start, resulted in success from the beginning. As the company grew fast, more space was needed. In 1994 the company moved to the current location at Venneveld 1 in Roosendaal. The modern buildings – comprising more than 7.000 sq meters of offices, workshops and warehouses – were completely adapted to the needs of Mekes and their customers.
OUR SALES TEAM
Leon Lagrand started in 1995 at EGS Euro Graphic Services as a salesman for new and used bindery equipment in the Netherlands. With a great knowledge of the bookbindery process, he grew up to be the worldwide sales director bindery machines. Since 2012, Leon is responsible for the used bindery machines at Mekes.
Bert Boxem started his career in 1993 at a Dutch print shop. His function at that time was Printshop Manager. After 25 years he took on a new challenge at another Dutch print shop in the function of Production Manager. Since September 2023 he joined our team in the function of Sales & Operations Director
EXPANDING ABROAD
Mekes Graphic Machinery has offices and partnerships all around the world. We’re active throughout Europa with partnerships for example in Germany, France and Slovenia. Futhermore, Mekes has opened offices in Spain, Italy and recently also in the United Kingdom. Outside of Europe, Mekes Graphic Machinery has strong partners in the United States of America, India, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Mekes Spain was opened in 2011, with Marc Canals as head of Mekes Maquinaria Grafica S.L., situated in Barcelona. Not only the office España is situated in Barcelona, Mekes Spain also has access to their own workshop where our mechanics dismantle, install and maintain graphic machinery.
In Milano, Italy, Mekes Italy S.R.L. was opened in 2016. Together with Claudio Scotto, Mekes Graphic Machinery strenghtens their position in Italy. Claudio Scotto has over 25 years experience in the Italian graphic industry and was previously active as sales and productmanager for postpress equipment at Muller Martini Italy.
In 2019, Mekes is expanding their operations to the United Kingdom as Mekes UK emerged, due to expanding markets in Great Britain. Via a new collaboration with Richard Dance, who will be director of sales of Mekes UK. Richard Dance has many years’ experience with graphic machinery. He started working as a mechanic at Harris Graphics, followed by joining Muller Martini in the role of sales manager for the UK for over 20 years.
In 2025, Mekes welcomed Nik Carter as their new International Sales Director Bindery Machines at Mekes. With more than 16 years of experience in the international trade of used Müller Martini saddle stitchers and perfect binders, Nik Carter brings both deep product knowledge and a global network of contacts. He will operate from Edinburgh and focus on serving our customers worldwide with high-quality bindery solutions.