Arburg France: Celebration to Open New Building

• New location: Arburg Technology Center (ATC) moves to Tremblay-en-France
• High-profile delegation: Opening ceremony with Managing Partner, Renate Keinath, and Managing Director, Gerhard Böhm
• Open House event: Live demonstrations and expert contributions

The Arburg subsidiary in France officially opened its new building on 14 September 2002 in Tremblay-en-France. High-profile representatives from Arburg headquarters, Renate Keinath, Managing Partner, and Gerhard Böhm, Managing Director Sales and Service, were present to celebrate the opening of the Arburg Technology Center (ATC) alongside the guests. During an Open House event held the next day, the visitors were able to see for themselves the many possibilities of the ATC. The programme included live demonstrations in the new showroom and expert presentations. In total, over 80 guests attended the two-day event.

On behalf of the entire organisation, Renate Keinath thanked the customers for their trust in Arburg: “Our successful cooperation over the past decades confirms to us that by opening a subsidiary in France in 1985, we took the right path.” The subsidiary in France is our oldest foreign location and is very important to Arburg. The concept of supporting customers on location has worked magnificently, and in the years that followed, we gradually rolled it out all over the world. “The great importance of the French market for Arburg is also reflected in the current investment in the new Arburg Technology Center,” said Renate Keinath. “This is a significant milestone for us and for our presence in France.”

Showroom as centrepiece
The new Arburg Technology Center in the industrial park in Tremblay-en-France in the Paris area has a floor space of over 1,500 square metres, and is thus around 40 percent larger than the previous location in Aulnay-sous-Bois. With an area of over 400 square metres, the showroom has space – depending on machine size – for up to four Allrounder injection moulding machines and for Freeformers. “We can show a representative cross-section of the Arburg portfolio here,” explained Renate Keinath. The machines are available for tests with customer moulds, as well as for training purposes. There are two training rooms, measuring over 100 square metres, for the theory part of the courses. “The entire infrastructure of the ATC is state of the art and ensures that customers and employees alike will feel completely at ease in the new premises,” said the Managing Partner.

Successful partnership
In his speech, Gerhard Böhm reviewed the history of the subsidiary. The foundation stone for Arburg’s international sales and service network was laid in 1985 with the foundation of the subsidiary in France. Today, the team in France comprises 26 employees, 15 of whom work in the Service division alone. As well as on-site service technician deployments, their tasks also include hotline support, the provision of spare parts, application technology advice and customer training. In addition, the subsidiary also supports customers in Morocco and Tunisia. “The Arburg France team handles these mammoth tasks with flying colours,” said Gerhard Böhm. The successful German-French partnership is also demonstrated at the Technology Days, where up to 200 visitors traditionally travel from France, making it one of the largest groups from abroad. In France itself, around 20 years ago, an Allrounder went on tour with the information and training truck, “Destination Plasturgie”, with the aim of introducing young people to the world of plastics, first in France, and later across Europe. A further example is the current cooperation with the plastics association Polyvia, and its Polyvia formation section, which will use the ATC’s excellent training possibilities for its courses in future.
“With the new ATC, we have created excellent conditions for continuing to foster outstanding cooperation with customers and partners in the future,” concluded Gerhard Böhm.

Open House: Focus on digitalisation and sustainability
The programme of the Open House included a guided tour for visitors, and live demonstrations of the machines. Afterwards, experts gave presentations on topics such as digitalisation, arburg green world, strategies on resource efficiency, and the circular economy. “The guests are impressed by the new building and the entire event,” Pascal Laborde was happy to report. “The building represents our desire to develop further, to modernise our injection moulds, our processes and our actions, in order to react even better to the needs of our customers.”

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Innovative Contribution to the Mobility Transition: “IAV Elcty” at the IAA Transportation

A pioneering contribution to the drive mix of commercial vehicles: IAV will be presenting the market-ready “IAV Elcty” electric drive for existing and new trucks at the “IAA Transportation” in Hanover next week.

“The IAV Elcty electric drive system can be customized for different commercial vehicle applications,” says Wolfgang Wukisiewitsch, Executive Vice President Solutions & Products at IAV. “It is suitable for both, retrofitting vehicles already on the road and for manufacturers of new vehicles who want to move into e-mobility in a short time and without their own development effort.”

Electric bus fleets as well as commercial vehicles with climate-friendly drives are an important part of the solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in transport. The Federal Government supports the purchase of buses and commercial vehicles with alternative drives through two funding directives from 2021 and thus contributes to the ramp-up of the corresponding vehicles in the market.

At the IAA Transportation (September 20th to 25th), IAV will be showing a double-decker sightseeing bus that has been converted to a battery-electric vehicle and will be used as a shuttle for journalists at the exhibition center on both press days (September 19th and 20th) before the opening of the leading international trade fair for the transport and logistics sectors. From September 21st, the electric bus will be available for visitors to the IAA on a circular route.

First grant application approved by federal government

“IAV Elcty” is an electrical-parts kit in the form of an easy-to-install complete system, consisting in particular of battery, control system and drive. Stadtrundfahrt Dresden GmbH, a private bus company, is the first customer to receive funding from the Federal Government and will electrify 25 vehicles of its diesel double-decker fleet in Dresden and Leipzig with “IAV Elcty”.

“For us, the appearance at the IAA Transportation is something very special. Four years ago, we presented the prototype of a double-decker bus equipped with electric drive to the public for the first time,” says Utz-Jens Beister, Managing Director of IAV Cars GmbH .

«At this year’s IAA, we are presenting the production-ready parts kit and offering small and medium-sized bus manufacturers an uncomplicated entry into e-mobility at a very high technical level.»

Managing Director of IAV Cars GmbH — Geschäftsführer der IAV Cars GmbH

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Oasis Flower Plant for Plastic Acquires a Comexi F2 MB Flexographic Press

The F2 MB will simultaneously help the Saudi Arabian company offer more sustainable printing and maintain very extremely high print quality

Oasis Flower Plant for Plastic, the leading producer of PET preforms and HDPE closures in Saudi Arabia, has reached an agreement to acquire a Comexi F2 MB flexo press; this is the first joint operation between the two companies. The Asian company has decided to rely on Comexi’s experience and technology, as it primarily is seeking printing projects to address the needs of various customers, especially those in the beverage sector.

“This is an extremely important operation for us”, says Oriol Rabert, the Comexi Area Manager of this region, who highlights that “we have demonstrated that our customers, due to our flexographic technology, can achieve identical special colour results as those obtained with a rotogravure press”. This project is in addition to others that Comexi is developing in this region, which also involve the installation of several flexographic printing machines.

Located in Al-Kharj, south of Riyadh, Oasis began in 2012. Thereafter, the company has increased its production capacity every year to manufacture over 5 billion units annually for its customers in the water bottling sector and other industries.

The Comexi F2 MB flexographic press is not only the best machine for combining short and medium runs, and but also to manage a full range of flexible packaging applications. The F2 MB features every ergonomic solution of the F2 family. It incorporates GeniusTech solutions to assist printers in conquering the primary challenges they currently face, which include a lack of skilled operators, job length reduction, and an increased number of job changes, among others. The utmost importance has been given to solutions that focus on providing the quickest job changeover, such as the GeniusFlow for fast cleaning, various automatic setup solutions, including GeniusSet and GeniusReg to shorten time and minimize waste, or GeniusData, which allow stores every existing job parameter to be reused, thus shortening the start-up of a new job.

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VDA President Hildegard Müller: “IAA Transportation is Breaking New Ground”

IAA Transportation has opened in Hanover – The leading international platform for transport and logistics with 1.402 exhibitors from 42 countries – the new concept covers the entire spectrum of transport and logistics – latest innovations can be seen live on site

VDA President Hildegard Müller together with Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil and the Lord Mayor of Hanover, Belit Onay, opened IAA Transportation in Hanover on Tuesday morning. IAA Transportation is being held from September 20th to 25th at Deutsche Messe’s exhibition center in Hanover under the “People and Goods on the Move” slogan. The IAA Transportation concept has been further developed and partially reinvented, and it now covers the entire transport and logistics spectrum.

“It is impossible to imagine our everyday lives and a high-performance economy without commercial vehicles”, explained VDA President Hildegard Müller at the opening. “IAA Transportation will showcase the industry’s innovative and sustainable solutions, which are already making an enormous contribution to climate protection, and it will also provide interesting outlooks into the future of transport and logistics”.

Müller further explained: “It is also important for all of us that the industry can finally meet together again in person, especially with regard to the many challenges that we are facing. It was with a heavy heart that we had to cancel the last IAA due to the pandemic. The many current geopolitical and economic developments and challenges are also placing huge demands on the international commercial vehicle markets. All of this is happening in the midst of the greatest transformation that enables the industry to continually move ahead through innovations and investments.”

“This year we are breaking new ground with our new IAA Transportation concept and creating a holistic approach. The aim and main theme here is to be the first international platform in the transport sector to focus on the technological transformation that the entire transport and logistics sector is undergoing towards emission-free mobility for goods and people. We have deliberately created an open platform for all those involved in transport and it also provides plenty of room for new players and perspectives.

We are very pleased with the exhibition’s popularity: 1.402 exhibitors from 42 countries and almost two thirds of the exhibitors are from abroad. The industry’s entire spectrum is represented: infrastructure providers and companies from the tech sector will also be playing an important role here in addition to the manufacturers and suppliers of commercial vehicles, buses of all kinds as well as companies from the bodywork and trailer sectors. Visitors to IAA can experience – and try out for themselves – just how innovative and digitized the industry has become”, said Müller.

Part of our new IAA Transportation concept is making it possible for you to experience on-site the latest innovations and developments from the transport and logistics sectors. Various new formats have been developed as part of IAA Experiences that put greater emphasis on our visitors experiencing, trying out and interacting at IAA Transportation.

“Commercial vehicles with climate-friendly drive systems can be tested at the IAA Test Drive. Vehicle recharging will be demonstrated in our Plug & Play Campus and this will include the possibility of refueling with hydrogen. Transport, logistics and delivery solutions for the future can be seen in action in the Last Mile Area. Cargo bikes can also be tested under real conditions at our IAA Cargobike Parcours”, said VDA president Hildegard Müller.

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