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Stork IMM’s owner sees good prospects for 2021


Stork Injection Moulding Machinery, which supplies packaging moulders, weathered the downturn of 2020 reasonably well and is expecting a strong 2021, according to René Wolfkamp, director of its owner, Wadinko. Nether- lands-based Stork IMM is also under new managerial leadership, with Martin Essink coming in as CEO in November. “The prospects are good and despite the turbulent times, the employees of Stork IMM are characterised as competent and loyal. Stork IMM’s order book is well filled and we therefore expect 2021 to be a good year,” said Wolfkamp, who was formerly CEO of plastic transport packaging group Schoeller Allibert. He came to Wadinko, a public investment fund in 2014. Wadinko increased its


stake in Stork over the years and invested to address some of the problems facing it, such as long


René Wolfkamp, director of Stork IMM’s owner, Wadinko


delivery times and insuffi- cient quality, Wolfkamp said in a statement in January. To address these, it appointed new management and carried out a transformation process towards a modern more customer-oriented structure. “The negative sentiment


towards the packaging industry and the corona crisis have of course been a big obstacle, but because Stork IMM switched on early, Stork was able to adapt quickly to the new circum-


stances and prepared for the future,” said Wolfkamp. As a result, he added, customer satisfaction has improved and orders have grown. Recent technical developments, such as the further development of servo electrical drives for larger machines, have also been popular. In the longer term, Wadinko is looking for a second shareholder to invest in Stork’s continued growth, though it will remain involved with the company. Essink had been involved


with Stork for several years as Wadinko’s investment manager and was directly involved in several improve- ment processes there. Previously, he had been a director of several small companies in the plastics industry, notably Euro Mouldings, a producer of plastic packaging. He replaces Oscar de Gruijter, who had headed Stork since May 2017. � www.storkimm.com � www.wadinko.nl


KM and SABIC join on thin-wall


Materials giant SABIC has formed a strategic partnership on applica- tion, material and processing innovations in the thin-wall packaging industry with KraussMaf- fei HighPerformance, the Swiss subsidiary of KraussMaffei that makes injection moulding systems under the Netstal brand. A key aim is to ad-


vance KraussMaffei’s application centre for thin-wall packaging in Näfels, Switzerland. New development, processing, material and application testing facilities (including a new lab) for the needs of the packaging industry will be installed. SABIC added that it will use the centre “to develop material solutions with potential for improving important properties of thin-wall packaging applications”. � www.kraussmaffei.com � www.sabic.com


Open house at Suresee in Shanghai


Suresee’s SV5003 mould monoitor


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Chinese mould monitoring technology company Suresee held an open house event on 18 December 2020 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. At the event in Suresee’s Shanghai facility, customers were shown the company’s vision systems and temperature controller products which are widely used in the automotive, electronics, packaging and pharmaceuti- cal industies. David Wu, Suresee’s General Manager, said in his welcome speech, that over the past decade the company had overcome a lot of technical challenges to bring professional solu- tions and better service to customers. He thanked the Suresee team’s great efforts. He said: “It’s a new start and journey for us for the next ten years – we’ll keep going for bigger breakthroughs.” � www.sptvision.com


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IMAGE: SURESEE


IMAGE: WADINKO


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