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Expansion for ENGEL Automation

Construction work has started in Hagen, Germany as ENGEL automation expands. The production area will benefit from significant extension, with a new hall to be added in March 2012. The expansion will provide an additional 1,000 square metres in total. 750 square metres will be devoted to the assembly of robots and other automation solutions with new office space of 250 square metres: the staffing level at ENGEL automation in Germany will also be increased from the current total of 45 to over 60 employees. More than 90 staff members will work at ENGEL's base in Hagen in 2012.

“The market share of ENGEL in the field of automation technology is growing all the time, and we've reached the limit of our capacity”, says Jörg Fuhrmann, Managing Director of ENGEL Automatisierungstechnik Deutschland GmbH, explaining the reason for the investment. Two factors are driving this development. Firstly, system solutions from a single source are becoming increasingly important: “For a lot of our customers, integrated automation is the main reason to purchase”, stresses Rolf Sass, Managing Director of ENGEL Deutschland GmbH in Hagen. “Almost half of automated manufacturing cells sold by a European producer of injection moulding machines now come from ENGEL. Clearly, ENGEL is leading the way when it comes to the automation of injection moulding machines.” The second aspect is the fact that since the launch of the ENGEL viper linear robot series, ENGEL has been selling an increasing number of robots for use with machines made by other firms: already, ENGEL provides a quarter of the robots purchased by the injection moulding industry in Europe.

ENGEL Automatisierungstechnik Deutschland is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in April 2012 – the new hall and offices should be up and running. 

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