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ENGEL World Champion in Silicone

Schwertberg/Austria – September 2010

Starlim/Sterner in Marchtrenk, Austria, A producer of solid and liquid silicone parts took delivery of its 250th ENGEL injection moulding machine. The machine was handed over to the Managing Director of Starlim/Sterner, Thomas Bründl, by ENGEL Managing Director Christian Pum. Dummies, mobile phone keypads, car seals, shower heads – these and similar items are produced by family-owned Starlim/Sterner, which has been on a steady course of expansion for many years. The owners' confidence is clearly reflected by their current investments. Intensive expansion of the facilities in Germany and Italy is in progress with double-figure million Euro investments. Technology and market leader Starlim/Sterner uses tie-bar-less ENGEL machines at its production facilities in Austria, Canada, Italy and Germany. The company is increasingly deploying tie-bar-less ENGEL victory machines with dual servo-hydraulics. "This generation of machines has helped us achieve energy savings of around 40 percent compared with conventional, hydraulic machines. These kind of cost savings mean that investments in these new machines will quickly pay dividends", says Thomas Bründl, Managing Director of the Starlim/Sterner Group. Besides the flexibility that the tie-bar-less ENGEL machines guarantee, the long-term partnership between Starlim/Sterner and ENGEL is founded on consistent quality orientation in the production of silicone parts.

Focus on growth markets:
The innovative solutions for productive manufacturing of these parts, developed in close cooperation, help Starlim/Sterner to keep production costs down and develop nove lproducts that reinforce the company's technology leadership in the silicone market sector. The focus of this aspiring enterprise is increasingly on new growth sectors. In a single clean room, Starlim/Sterner manufactures silicone parts to exacting requirements formedical applications. Ongoing growth of the company is preprogrammed. The combination of innovation and investment that links the family-owned companies, Starlim/Sterner and ENGEL, from a strategy point of view, always has driven growth at "Silicone World Champion" Starlim/Sterner and will continue to do so in future.

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