Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, Schwaig: At the introductory press conference for K 2022, Dr Thorsten Thümen, Senior Director Technology, outlined the company’s evolving strategic focus. He also gave guests a clear indication of the upcoming product innovations that will feature as…

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery Česko spol. s r.o., Prague (Czech Republic) is celebrating its first anniversary. Officially opened on 1 April 2021, the branch office in the Czech capital has achieved all of its initial business ambitions and maintained its unwavering service focus, with Ma…

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag further optimises the company’s sales and strategy organisation with the appointment of Armin Distler, who succeeds Siegfried Köhler following his departure at the turn of the year. Effective February 1, 2022, Distler assumes responsibility for global sales as Senior Sales Di…

Value takes many forms. But for one Italian company specialising in automotive and industrial DC motor production, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is much more than a machinery supplier. The affinity, consultancy support and practical guidance supplied by Sumitomo (SHI) Demag consistently over the last two dec…

Gerd Liebig, CEO of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, outlined how high-quality connector production can be designed cost-effectively and sustainably in the future in a talk held during the LAPP trade press event. He drew a bridge from the trends in customer requirements and machine gene…

The Fraunhofer spin-off plus10 has been conducting application-oriented research together with the South German Plastics Center SKZ. As part of their DarWIN research project, new AI-based process optimisation tools have been developed specifically targeting injection moulding machines. Sumitomo (SHI…

After the world premiere of the new SAM-C robots at Fakuma, interest in the first in-house automation solution from Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, Schwaig (SDG), continues unabated. The two handle & place systems were the real crowd pleasers on the company’s Fakuma booth, attrac…

Effective 10 September 2021, Michel Carreiro is confirmed as the new Managing Director of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag do Brazil (SDBR). He succeeds Christoph Rieker, who recently departed having led the company for many years.

Responsible for the sale of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag machines in Brazil and South Ame…

A former intern from the 1990s, Axel Kunze has been appointed as the new Production Manager of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH in Wiehe, effective 1 November 2021. The flagship facility which employees 290 team members and currently produces close to 1,000 IntElect machines annually, al…

Featuring innovative technology from mould and hot runner specialist männer, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s ergonomic, energy and space saving IntElect S130, and an innovative, modular, automation system engineered by MA micro automation, the complete production cell, hosted by männer in Bahlingen, Germ…