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Milacron may shift work from Germany to the US and India

he United States and India could get more injection production in January 2019. Production of another press
Tmolding machine production work under changes at model will be transferred to the United States, the core
Milacron Holdings Corp. According to reports the Ohio- market for that model, he told the German newspaper.
based machinery company is making to plans to phase out Milacron will continue to have administration, sales and
manufacturing at its factory in Malterdingen, Germany, service and product development in Malterdingen. The
a year earlier than previously planned. Spokesman Mike machinery maker is based in the Cincinnati suburb of
Ellis said machine production at the Ferromatik Milacron Blue Ash. Milacron has consolidated European production
plant will end this year as there is a change in strategy
for Milacron, which had previously said it would keep the of its Uniloy blow molding machinery into Policka. The
plant in Germany open through the end of 2019, then company also relocated its European distribution center
for aftermarket parts to another Czech plant, in Sasovice,
in a move completed in 2016. Ellis also said Milacron plans
to add more injection presses to its European lineup this
year, including Hydron, the flexible servo-hydraulic press;
and the fully electric E-Quantum.

Calco Poly Technik to set up its

largest plant in Gujarat

move production to the Czech Republic. Now, instead, the
company may move that production to existing plants in alco Poly Technik, the Delhi based leading providers
the United States and India. Cof High Performance Engineering Plastics, Color
and additives solutions for the Plastic Industries, has
Ellis said another plan for production in Europe has not planned to set up its largest manufacturing facility in
changed: the staging, testing and final assembly of the the country in Gujarat in next 3 to 4 years. Director of
company's Magna Toggle Servo (MTS) and Elektron injection the company, Varun Gupta said, ”We are investing Rs
molding machines will remain based in the Czech Republic, 50 crores in our second plant in Haryana but the Gujarat
at a 3-year-old plant in Policka.Ellis said: "We are currently plant would be of much larger proportion. It would be
reviewing production options for manufacturing locations situated somewhere close to Pipavav or Mundra port.
of our various machines including the F-Series and the The Gujarat plant
would be export
KTec. "India and the U.S. (Batavia, Ohio) are the locations oriented and will
that are being reviewed, as we have capacity limitations also cater to the
in the Czech Republic due to our strong blow molding vast domestic
order book that was not originally anticipated." Milacron's market especially
statement is more nuanced than a story Jan. 19 in the automotive
the Badische Zeitung newspaper from Freiburg, Germany. sector in the state
The paper said Malterdingen made 100 presses a year of which is known as
one type of machine that will be transferred to India.The the plastic hub of
German report quoted Denis Poelman, managing director the country. ” The company has a plant of 20000 MT in
of Milacron's injection molding press business in Europe, as Haryana, Gupta said that his company has so far also
saying the Malterdingen plant is no longer profitable. "The helped over 1000 companies develop new products
fixed costs are too high. With 100 machines, you cannot serving diverse markets such as electrical & electronics,
possibly keep a production plant," he told the newspaper. packaging, appliance, agriculture, Automotive, Home
and Construction.
Poelman said Milacron's Indian location could get the

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