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Image shows planned Wittmann Battenfeld offices in Kottingbrunn, Austria
Greiner's new deal in Russia
Wittmann continues expansion for eighth year
The Wittmann Group has announced that its sales grew by 5% to €377m in 2006. This was the eighth consecutive year of growth for the com- pany, which also revealed that it is likely to top €400m in sales this year after recording an “exceptionally high order intake” in 2H 2016 and early 2017. Employee numbers also increased last year, to 2,165. Shortly beforehand, Wittmann had announced plans to invest some €15m at the site of its Wittmann Battenfeld subsidiary in Kottingbrunn, Austria. The company said that this was mainly the result of “the growth in recent years across all product lines of the PowerSeries machines and the very positive development of order intake in 2017”.
The investment will add a further 2,200 m² of space to house the assembly lines for medium-sized and large machines from the EcoPower and SmartPower series of injection moulding machines with clamping forces ranging 180-400 tonnes, plus more assembly capacity for the MacroPower series. In addition, there will be two more floors to accommodate offices and conference rooms in the sales office building. Construction started in June and is due to be com- pleted before the end of 2017. In 2018, the company added, the existing technology building will be extended by another storey to create about 800 m² of space for designing and developing injection moulding machines.
Wittmann had already made
investments in machinery and infrastructure at Kottingbrunn on the back of its ongoing growth. This had included the installation of several new machining centres, the completion of the new technical lab and the remodel- ling of the mechanical production and sheet metal plants, the warehouse facilities and the product development testing area.
In addition, the company is
expanding the production area for automation systems and robots at the Wolkersdorf site, near Vienna, to 4,800 units/year and investing in additional machining centres. This will ultimately add 2,600 m² of space at the plant, bringing the total to 9,300 m². ❙
www.wittmann-group.com
Austria’s Greiner Packaging has announced that it is establishing a joint venture with Russian plastic packaging manufacturer Plastic System called Greiner Packaging System, in which it will hold a majority stake. This follows expansion in Turkey in 2015 and the establishment of a joint venture in India in 2016. “Our goal is to grow outside of Europe as well in the future, in order to be better able to respond to international customer needs,” said Axel Kühner, chairman of the Greiner Group. The two firms are now working on the integration measures agreed when the joint venture deal closed in March. Greiner has been present
in Russia since 2005, with a site at Vladimir that is mainly active in thermoforming and the K3 brand of board-plas- tic laminates. The new venture will expand activities particularly in in-mould labelling and direct printing, while also taking Greiner into larger packaging units. Plastic System is based at Noginsk, near Moscow. ❙
www.greiner-gpi.com
Arburg wins Industry 4.0 award in Germany
A local network initiative in Germany has named Arburg among its ‘100 Centres of Industry 4.0 Excellence in Baden-Württemberg’.
10 The production of ‘smart’
luggage tags on an Allrounder injection moulding machine, combined with a Freeformer for industrial additive manufactur-
INJECTION WORLD | May/June 2017
ing and an ALS host computer system, was cited as a particular example of Industry 4.0 in action. Using an individual NFC chip, the moulded product
becomes the data and informa- tion carrier and controls the further production operations to become a one-off part. ❙
www.arburg.com
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