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Electric moulding equipment drives demand for Arburg
Arburg’s senior management team used the company’s annual open house event to update on its business position and strategy, reporting strong growth in electric machine and larger system sales
Arburg’s annual Technology Days open house, held each spring at its Lossburg factory in Germany’s Black Forest, has long been used by the company to present novel and technically demanding applications for its moulding machinery. And this year was no exception. What was noticeable, however, was that near half of the 40 or so machines in operation this year were either all-electric or electric/hydraulic hybrid types. Speaking on the first day of
the event, which took place in early March, Arburg managing partner Michael Hehl said the company’s consolidated turnover for the 2012 financial year amounted to €488m, up by 4% on the previous period. He said the 2012 financial year
Some 5,000 visitors attended Arburg’s Technology Days open house at its factory in Lossburg, Germany in last month, where more than 40 production cells were in operation
had also seen the continuation of a trend to higher value machine orders, driven in particular by growth in all-electric, larger tonnage and more sophisticated manufacturing systems and project business. Taken together, 37% of the equipment supplied by Arburg last year (measured in incoming order value) included
at least one electric drive axis, said Hehl. Fully all-electric machines made up the bulk of these orders with 16% of total order value accounted for by its high performance Alldrive models and 7% by the more recently introduced Edrive technical moulding machines (compared to 17% and 3% for 2011). The hybrid Hidrive models accounted for a further 14%.
Hehl also said the value of
larger machine orders (models between 250 tonnes and the company’s upper limit of 500 tonnes) was also up from 15% in 2011 to 17% last year, while multi-component moulding equipment orders accounted for 13% and project business 15% of the total. Slightly more than 40% of
From left, technical director Herbert Kraibühler, sales director Heinrich Heinson and managing partner Michael Hehl.
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Arburg’s sales are to Germany so the economic conditions in
this home market are very important to the company. Sales director Heinrich Heinson said activity in Germany has slowed a little over the first two months of 2013, although he said he was optimistic that activity would pick up as the year progresses. “The southern European position also has an effect on our business but not so much. We have seen some decline in Italy but France is fine and so is the UK. There have been no big changes,” said Heinson. “And we are happy to have performed so well in the US in recent years. It is now our biggest export market. However, the growth potential for Arburg is in Asia and China.”
Heinson said the automo-
tive and electrical appliance industries remain the com- pany’s major application
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