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ENGEL AUSTRIA and PLASTISUD create joint venture for China

Green Cap: the best energy efficiency on the market

Schwertberg, Austria – April 2012. To meet the spec ific needs of the Chinese market

more effectively in future, the mould manufacturer PLASTISUD has joined forces with

ENGEL AUSTRIA, the producer of injection moulding m achines, to form a joint

venture. Under the name of Green Cap, they are offe ring turnkey solutions for the

production of sealing caps for water and soft drink s containers in China.

Around the globe, demand for caps and closures is expanding by around five percent per

year – and China is the world's largest market in terms of volume. The world's most populous

country is imposing increasingly stringent requirements on packaging products and their

manufacture: the weight of packaging needs to be reduced, quality needs to be raised and

uncompromising performance must be delivered with maximum energy efficiency. “The

Chinese market is very demanding. Chinese customers request nothing but the best”,

emphasises Walter J. Jungwirth, Director New Business Development at ENGEL AUSTRIA

in the Austrian town of Schwertberg. “Green Cap is the best way for us to address this trend.

We are offering maximum output and quality while optimising the cost structure for our

customers”, Jean-Luc Giraud, CEO of PLASTISUD at Castelnaudary in France, takes up

the theme: “By bringing two family owned market leaders together, we want to amalgamate

a unique wealth of experience in plastic closure moulds and highly efficient injection

moulding machines to provide the Chinese market with a simple but very efficient plastic

cap solution”. The two partners have analysed the Chinese market and the demands of

Chinese manufacturers in great detail. From day one, the aim was not only to deliver

innovative technologies, but also to offer an economically viable solution to plastics

processing companies in China.

Maximum process reliability and availability

PLASTISUD and ENGEL will unveil their new concept at the Chinaplas 2012 trade fair,

which runs from 18th to 21st April in Shanghai. At the Green Cap stand (F41 in hall W1), an

all-electric ENGEL e-cap 3440/420 injection moulding machine with a 96-cavity mould made

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by PLASTISUD will make nearly 130,000 sealing caps per hour, reaching a cycle time faster

than 2.8 seconds. With cycle times of under 3 seconds and injection speeds of up to 460

mm per second, ENGEL's all-electric e-cap injection moulding machine is designed to

handle the highest output rates with maximum efficiency. Green Cap total solutions promise

energy consumption of just 0.75 kWh per kilogram of granules, thereby delivering far better

energy efficiency than similar systems on the market can offer. The system solutions save

cooling water as well as electricity, thus making a lasting contribution to environmental

protection. Other features of the production systems include robust and hard-wearing

components, high process reliability and maximum availability. Green Cap solutions come

with 32 to 96 cavities moulds as standard along with machine clamping force of 200 to 420

tons; as a further option, 500 ton machines are available.

Local presence to serve customers in China

Greencap installed its base in Shanghai in the premises of ENGEL to bring a complete and

fast service to the Chinese customers. PLASTISUD and ENGEL are well established as

reputable European suppliers to the Chinese market for injection moulding. One and a half

year ago, PLASTISUD opened a new sales office in Shanghai; ENGEL has a production

plant in Shanghai as well as three sales and service offices. “We are well connected to our

customer base in China, and doubling our production area at ENGEL Machinery Shanghai

demonstrates our commitment to the region”, says Gero Willmeroth, President (Sales and

Service) at ENGEL Machinery Shanghai. “With the turnkey solution of Green Cap we are

bringing high performance and the latest technology standards to China at a reasonable

price.“

For more information on Green Cap

� Chinaplas 2012: hall W1, stand F41

� www.greencapchina.com (will go on-line on April 11th!)

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Green technology for a greener China: working as Green Cap, PLASTISUD and ENGEL AUSTRIA are bringing intelligent injection moulding solutions for sealing caps to China.

Fit for high performance: At the Chinaplas, an all-electric ENGEL e-cap 3440/420 injection moulding machine with a PLASTISUD 96-cavity mould will make nearly 130,000 sealing caps per hour.

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Green Cap solutions come with 32 to 96 cavities moulds.

Fast, faster, e-cap: the all-electric ENGEL e-cap injection moulding machines have cycle times of under three seconds and injection speeds of up to 460 mm per second.

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Green Cap is supplying integrated system solutions including quality control systems.

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ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH

ENGEL is one of the global leaders in the manufacture of plastics processing machines. Today, the ENGEL Group offers a full range of technology modules for plastics processing as a single source supplier: Injection moulding machines for thermoplastics and elastomers, and automation, with the assurance that individual components are also competitive and successful in the world markets. With eight production plants in Europe, North America and Asia (China, Korea) as well as subsidiaries and representatives in over 85 countries, ENGEL offers its customers the optimal global support they need to compete and succeed with new technologies and leading-edge production systems.

PLASTISUD SAS

Plastisud, with its headquarter in Castelnaudary/France, is one of the worldwide leaders in the manufacture of injection molds combining both high precision and performance whilst pushing the boundaries of mold formats and cycle times. Plastisud is the 1st mold maker having manufactured 144-cavity molds for plastic closures with an olive plug seal running at 2.8 seconds. Its markets are plastic closures, plastic packaging and plastic medical products. Plastisud already has Sales and Customer support team either in Asia or in North America. With a very long experience of high cavitation and robust molds (more than 45 years), Plastisud has delivered more than 4,000 molds.

Press Contact at ENGEL AUSTRIA:

Gerd Liebig, Group Marketing Director, ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH, Ludwig-Engel-Strasse 1, A-4311 Schwertberg/Austria, Tel.: +43 (0)50 / 620-3800, Fax: -3009, E-mail: gerd.liebig@engel.at

Susanne Zinckgraf, Manager Public Relations, ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH, Ludwig-Engel-Strasse 1, A-4311 Schwertberg, Austria PR Office: Theodor-Heuss-Strasse 85, D-67435 Neustadt, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 6327 976 9902 E-mail: susanne.zinckgraf@engel.at

Press Contact at PLASTISUD FRANCE:

Philippe Mafille, Commercial Director, PLASTISUD FRANCE 5, rue Joseph Jacquard, Z.I. d’En Tourre, F-11400 Castelnaudary/France Tel : +33 4 68 23 15 57, E-mail: philippe.mafille@plastisud.com, Internet: www.plastisud.com