NEWS Lanxess opens China ETP plant
Lanxess has officially inaugurated its new €20m compounding facility at Changzhou in China. The facility produces the company’s Durethan and Pocan high-tech com- pounds, which are used mainly in the automotive, electrical and electronics sectors. “This facility was built to
address several strategically vital markets,” said Hubert Fink, Member of the Lanxess Board, at the opening
Ypsomed expands
HQ site Medical device manufac- turer Ypsomed has opened new and renovated buildings at its headquarters in Burg- dorf, Switzerland. It has modernised and expand- ed both the tool shop and the laboratory, while creating 100 more office workstations and rooms for training courses and workshops. The investment follows
on from the expansion of insulin pen production in Solothurn in April, which involved relocating 110 workplaces from Burg- dorf, and the recent opening of a new plant for injection and infusion systems at Schwerin, north-eastern Germany. Employment at
Burgdorf will rise to about 600 people by end-2020. �
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ceremony. “In the automo- tive industry, lightweight materials become ever more important in new
mobility. At the same time, the electrical and electron- ics sector sees an increasing need for best-in-class flame
The €20m Lanxess compounding operation at Changzhou in China
retardant, easy flow and easily processable grades.” The new facility is part of the company’s High Perfor- mance Materials business unit, which operates a global compounding network with sites at at Brion, Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen and Hamm-Uentrop in Germany, Antwerp in Belgium, Gastonia in the US, Porto Feliz in Brazil, Jhagadia in India, and Changzhou and Wuxi in China. �
www.lanxess.com
Executives on the move in Germany machinery firms
Injection moulding machin- ery manufacturer Wittmann Battenfeld Germany has announced that Andreas Schramm and Michael Tolz will succeed Klaus Ehlig as joint managing directors. Schramm will work along- side Ehlig until his retire- ment at the end of the year, after 53 years with the company. Tolz will then take up his new position on 1 January 2020. Schramm will also be management spokesman for the firm. Schramm studied
mechanical engineering at TU Dresden and worked for many years at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery in Schwaig, ultimately rising to the role of chief technology officer. Tolz, meanwhile, has been with Wittmann Battenfeld since 2011 as CTO and plant manager of the Nuremberg facility. Their key
INJECTION WORLD | October 2019
Above: Andreas Schramm (centre) and Michael Tolz (right) are succeeding Klaus Ehlig (left) as joint managing directors of Wittmann Battenfeld Germany
areas of experience are injection moulding technol- ogy and automation technology respectively. Moving in the opposite
direction from Schramm, and taking up a different job function, is Siegfried Köhler, who has joined Sumitomo (SHI) Demag from Wittmann Battenfeld to be its group
chief sales officer with effect from 1 October. Köhler is said to have
expertise in both injection moulding and peripheral manufacturing equipment. He had previously worked with Italian and Austrian companies. �
www.wittmann-group.com �
www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu
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PHOTO: WITTMANN BATTENFELD
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