EngelAustria will be taking over the 'Premax' business of SIG Corpoplast, Germany, and the Premax PET preform production systems will be marketed under 'Engel MacPET'.
Among a number of new injection moulding process developments from Engel are X-melt for small precision parts, thin wall injection moulding and the Foammelt process for high rigidity.
An Engel unmanned injection moulding line, conceived with rapid mould change-ocver, is producing a wide variety of automotive drive belt pulleys for the Dutch enterprise Axxicon.