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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag stays positive as orders increase
Injection moulding machinery manu- facturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag held a ground-breaking ceremony on 29 June for the next project phase in its growth strategy: a lightweight warehouse with 1,600 m2
of floor space at its site in
Schwaig, Germany. This will facilitate direct material flow from goods receipt and the dispatch loading zone to production.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has invested nearly €20m to modernise facilities and equipment at its two German sites. It has also completed the expansion and modernisation of the training centre at Schwaig. It now has a team of eight providing training in machine technology, application technology and robotics, plus media facilities for online training. During the first half of 2020, Sumi- tomo (SHI) Demag reported separately, the value of incoming orders for
Senior staff at Sumitomo (SHI)
Demag’s expanded training centre in Schwaig, Germany
machines produced in Germany and China rose by almost 25% over the first half of 2019. It now expects the year as a whole to be 17% higher. Gerd Liebig, CEO, attributed this mainly to the company’s focus on the growing packaging and medical technology sectors. This helped the firm to weather difficult times in the automotive market and, to a lesser
extent, consumer products, where the “tense situation on the labour market and the declining propensity of consumers to buy” have constrained investment by moulders. The other German site at Wiehe is now operating at full capacity and the company will start producing all-elec- tric small machines there in November. �
www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu
Investment progress at Talisman Plastics
UK injection moulder Talisman Plastics said that it is “well advanced with plans to increase capacity, efficiency and performance” in the second year of a five year-long series of invest- ments. This involves
Right: Nathan Flanigan, Senior Project Engineer, with some of Talisman’s crucial clinical waste ties
decommissioning older machines and bringing in new ones at its site in Malvern, in order to boost product precision, save energy and reduce time lost to maintenance. The number of machines
has been reduced from 32 to 27 and will reach 24 after five years. Overall equip- ment efficiency and produc- tion capacity are both “significantly improved”, Talisman said. “Proof of the progress made is in a 12% saving in energy costs, despite a 14% increase in the actual number of days worked during 1H 2020,” said Managing Director Shaun Champion. The most recent machine to be added at the site is a 160-tonne Haitian Mars machine incorporating a robot and printer, thus providing a work cell capable of 24/7 continuous
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production. Talisman estimates it has manufactured 32 million of its clinical waste ties over the last year after increasing production to supply NHS trusts across the UK. James Mulvale, Business Develop- ment Manager at Talisman Plastics, said: “During the peak of the pandemic, understandably every NHS trust we supply wanted to maintain a full stock of our clinical waste ties. Thanks to the increase in our produc- tion capacity we were able to meet a monthly order of 30,000 of our Taliloc prod- uct.” This was achieved while reducing lead time, he said. �
www.talismanplastics.co.uk
www.injectionworld.com
IMAGE: TALISMAN
IMAGE: SUMITOMO (SHI) DEMAG
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