ENGEL's worldwide course of growth continues

More capacity for large-size machines in St. Valentin

Parallel to the expansions at the company headquarters, construction work has begun at the location of ENGEL's large-size machine plant in St. Valentin in Lower Austria. By late summer of this year, two warehouses will be completed, and then in the autumn, work will start on an additional production hall. This will be erected in the south of the site and be connected to the existing halls, significantly expanding the capacity for the manufacture of large-size machines.

The ENGEL Center for Lightweight Composite Technologies located in St. Valentin will be provided with more space in the course of expanding the facilities at that site. A second, even larger ENGEL v-duo machine was already taken into operation at the technology centre in the spring of this year. Now the facilities can cover an even broader spectrum of fibre composite material applications for ENGEL's own development tasks as well as for projects with customers and partners.

fig. 1: ENGEL AUSTRIA - St. Valentin: By late summer of this year, two warehouses will be completed in St. Valentin, and then in the autumn, work will start there on an additional production hall.

Equipping Kaplice for further growth

The component plant at Kaplice in southern Bohemia is being equipped to increase the machine assembly capacity. By the autumn of 2017, production floor space will be more than doubled. The company's facility in the Czech Republic is its centre of excellence for sheet-metal processing and electrical fitting. Among other things, control cabinets, machine frames, housing parts and conveyor belts are produced in Kaplice. "It is only due to our very high vertical manufacturing range that we are able to deliver a consistent high quality worldwide, and yet also flexibly fulfill the increasingly individualised requirements of our customers," says Engleder, Chief Technical Officer at ENGEL Holding. "The Kaplice location therefore plays a key role in ENGEL's global production network." In addition to a new production hall, an even larger administrative building is being constructed, because the number of employees is not just growing in production, but also in administrative areas.

fig. 2: Within the worldwide ENGEL Group, the plant in Kaplice is a centre of excellence for sheet-metal processing and electrical fitting. The administrative building in the South will be expanded, and the production hall will grow towards the North and East.

ENGEL Machinery Shanghai has begun with the construction of a new production hall. It will provide an additional 1,600 square meters of floor space for CNC processing alone. Beyond that, it will contain offices and a new apprentice workshop.

In setting up a dual vocational training programme, ENGEL is emerging as a pioneer in China. The apprentice workshop in Shanghai is being refurbished in the course of the expansion work.

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