Engel Austria is continuing to expand its main base in Schwertberg. Just 18 months on from the southwards expansion, a new assembly hall has been opened at the northern end of the factory site. This will increase the number of spaces for machines to be accepted by clients.
Every year, the production facility in Schwertberg produces more than 2,000 injection moulding machines – and the number is rising. For some time now, there has been a shortage of machine spaces for client acceptance on the site. In particular, large injection moulding machines have had to be transported to the St. Valentin plant for initial start-up. Thanks to the new building, sufficient spaces are now available at the plant. Designed for machines weighing up to 40 tons, the new assembly hall also addresses the trend towards larger injection moulding machines. Engel now produces machines with clamping force of up to 650 tons in Schwertberg. One of the biggest machines manufactured on the site is the new Engel e-speed high performance hybrid machine.
The new structure was completed in a construction period of just seven months. Only companies based in the local region were contracted to carry out planning and construction work.
