NEWS Engel goes global in moulds


Austrian injection moulding machinery giant Engel plans to establish a decentralised network of mould experts in its sales regions in order to consolidate its systems business, as demand grows for integrated systems from a single source. “Alongside automation and other peripherals, the mould is part of the overall set-up in more and more cases,” the company stated. The first plant with the new set-up will be Shanghai. The new department will be headed by Davy Kong, with support from Ian Wang. Both are mould managers who work with other mould technology staff in Austria


its mould technology division in Shanghai, to enable it to offer its services to customers in other Asian countries. Mould managers will also be located at the production plant in York, Pennsylvania, within a year to fulfil a similar role in the North American markets. The move is a continua-


Udo Stahlschmidt, head of mould technology at Engel, (centre) shares his expertise relating to moulds with Davy Kong, head of mould technology in China, (left) and Ian Wang (right), mould manager at Engel Machinery Shanghai


and with business units and application technology departments in both Austria and Asia. In turn, they also work with customers in China on mould projects


and help to develop moulds for specific products and processes in partnership with mould makers. The company added that it will continue to strengthen


tion of the process of creating a decentralised network of specialist experts globally as process integra- tion makes production ever more complex. The first step was to establish automation centres in America and Asia while introducing a business unit structure. � www.engelglobal.com


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