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KraussMaffei takes over Pultrex
| Petra Rehmet
Strategic purchase for pultrusion
Effective February 21, 2019, KraussMaffei signed a share purchase agreement with Pultrex Ltd., based in Manningtree, Essex/UK, and thus strengthens its system competence in the area of pultrusion. Pultrex is one of the leading providers of pultrusion, pullwinding and filament winding systems, and is itself a manufacturer of pultrusion profiles.
Experienced pultrusion specialist
Pultrex has over 40 years of experience in the field of pultrusion, the continuous strand drawing of fiber-reinforced profiles and round rods. More than 600 Pultrex pultrusion systems are in use worldwide. The product portfolio includes complete pultrusion, pullwinding and filament winding systems. In addition, Pultrex manufactures profiles for numerous customers, for example in the construction, transport and wind power industries. The range of use of pultruded profiles is extremely diverse and continues to grow. Thanks to the new cooperation, completely new opportunities and applications will arise for both companies and their customers.
"With the company Pultrex, we have a valuable, experienced partner at our side, with whom we will expand our pultrusion business division for the long term."Nicolas Beyl, President of the Reaction Process Machinery Segment KraussMaffei Group
Looking forward to the new system partnership for pultrusion
Nicolas Beyl, President of the Reaction Process Machinery segment of the KraussMaffei Group, and Colin Leek, Managing Director Pultrex (from left to right)
The entire value chain
KraussMaffei entered the pultrusion market in 2017, setting new standards with the iPul system. The KraussMaffei core competences include the expertise and experience with mixing and metering systems, as well as mold technology. With the expertise and experience of Pultrex, KraussMaffei is complementing his system competence and now offers the entire value chain from a single supplier At the same time, both parties will together pursue the aim of promoting standardized pultrusion system construction, thus offering their customers solutions with optimum price-performance ratios.
"Our partnership with the globally active technology leader KraussMaffei, in particular the worldwide sales and service network, will be of great benefit to all our customers."Colin Leek, Managing Director Pultrex
Competence Centres bundle know-how
The Manningtree location of Pultrex will be the KraussMaffei Competence Center for the construction of pullers, filament winding and pullwinding systems. At the same time, Pultrex expertise and experience will be used in the design of resin-impregnating bath systems for pultrusion. Profile production in Manningtree will continue on the same scale. This will result in a decisive advantage: From now on, customers will be able to test their prototypes and the respective series production on location and take the experience and knowledge gained into account in their development work. The metering machines for the iPul systems come from Munich, the molds from the KraussMaffei location Harderberg in Germany. KraussMaffi is thus concentrating the pultrusion system knowhow specifically at the locations which already have the competence.
Contact
philipp.zimmermann@kraussmaffei.com
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