Containers for today's logistics have to be stackable, feature IML barcodes, integrated RFIDs and, of course, the logo of the company that owns them. Switzerland's Georg Utz has specialized in this application, and for this reason it has commissioned the country's largest injection molding machine, a KraussMaffei...
The Munich-based mechanical engineering group KraussMaffei responds to an increasingly challenging market environment with a worldwide adjustment and efficiency program, also including the reduction of several hundred positions in the non-production areas. There are currently no plans to cut jobs in manufacturing and assembly...
Alexandra Coffey was appointed Senior Sustainability Manager of the KraussMaffei Group on January 1, 2023. She reports directly to the Management Board. Coffey comes from the Schörghuber Group, where she was also responsible for sustainability. Her thematic focus areas are...
November 29, 2022, marked the beginning of a new era for KraussMaffei: as planned, on this day the Group took delivery of the keys to its new plant and corporate headquarters in Parsdorf (Germany) from the project developer VGP. Not only does this mark the start of one of the largest relocation projects in the greater...
At its November 29 meeting, the KraussMaffei Group Supervisory Board acknowledged with approval CEO Michael Ruf's personal request not to extend his contract, which expires at the end of March 2023, and named Li Yong as his successor. Since 2018, KraussMaffei Group has been part of KraussMaffei Company Limited, a...
Additive manufacturing for industrial use is one of the key innovations displayed by KraussMaffei at the K show. powerPrint and precisionPrint open up new applications for additive manufacturing with plastic granulate and resin-based 3D printing materials respectively, along the plastic components value chain. For modern plastics processors...
Starting July 1, 2022, Lizette Ruiz Guevara has been made responsible for global corporate communications and marketing at KraussMaffei. She reports to KraussMaffei Group CEO, Michael Ruf, and succeeds Marion Sommerwerck, who left KraussMaffei of her own volition in February 2022...
At the trade show K 2022, the company will reaffirm its claim to expand its market position as a leading supplier of sustainable solutions for the plastics industry. The company's 185th anniversary in 2023 also marks the beginning of a new, sustainable era: in eight years, i.e. in 2030, the entire company will be climate-neutral...
With an open house event held from June 22 to 24, KraussMaffei inaugurated its new branch in Italy. The new headquarters in Arese, just outside Milan, is added to the Abbiategrasso office, also in the province of Milan, which in 2022 celebrates twenty years of activity in Italy...
Alberto Rossi has taken over the position of Managing Director at the recently re-established subsidiary Netstal Italia. Alberto Rossi thus indirectly succeeds Andrea Bottelli, who had successfully built up the former Netstal Italia since 1995 and then further developed the Italian market for both brands as...
All activities of the former KraussMaffei High Performance will be transferred by KraussMaffei Group into an independent unit effective October 1, 2021. This will operate under the traditional name Netstal. Renzo Davatz will head Netstal as CEO and in this function will report directly to the KraussMaffei Group‘s CEO, Michael Ruf...
The Munich-based machinery manufacturer KraussMaffei Group is selling its subsidiary KraussMaffei Austria to the Austrian family-owned company Luger. There, it will continue to operate under the name KMAT Maschinen und Service. The eight employees of the former KraussMaffei Austria will continue to be employed. The transaction took effect on...
Tiziano Caprara has taken the position of Managing Director at KraussMaffei Italia. Tiziano succeeds Andrea Bottelli, who headed the Italian subsidiary initially for the Netstal brand (now KraussMaffei High Performance) and since 2013 also for the KraussMaffei brand, successfully developing the injection moulding machinery business in Italy...
With the new large GX - clamping force of 13,000 kN - KraussMaffei intends to achieve an even better foothold in the growth market of logistics and packaging. Decisive benefit of the new size: applications such as buckets or crates can be implemented in a double cavity on one machine, for example. The compact design of the 2-platen technology also...
