Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Schwaig near Nuremberg |
| management | Gerd Liebig (CEO), Hideki Kuroiwa (CTO) and Andreas Schramm (COO) |
| Branch | Mechanical engineering , plastic |
| Website | www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, Schwaig / Germany, a manufacturer of injection molding machines for plastics processing. The Japanese-German company was created in the spring of 2008 through the merger of the injection molding machine activities of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) with the Demag Plastics Group.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag in profile
The global development and production network of Sumitomo Heavy Industries and Sumitomo (SHI) Demag consists of four plants in Japan, Germany and China with more than 3,000 employees. The product portfolio includes fully electric and hybrid driven injection molding machines with clamping forces between 180 and 20,000 kN. With over 115,000 installed machines, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is present in all important markets of the world.
The Sumitomo main plant in Chiba manufactures machines with small and medium clamping forces. Around 95% of all machines delivered by Sumitomo Heavy Industries have a fully electric drive concept.
The German Demag locations in Schwaig and Wiehe produce the Systec Servo series and the high-performance, high-speed El-Exis SP and Systec SP machines with a hybrid drive concept. The IntElect series with electric drive technology is also produced in Germany for the international market.
In Ningbo is / China Sumitomo (SHI) Demag since 1998 with a production on site. Since mid-2015, the local subsidiary Demag Plastics Machinery (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. via a new plant with a production area of 12,800 m², in which the Systec C series is manufactured with a clamping force of 500 to 10,000 kN for Asian markets.
Milestones
| 1950 | Start of the manufacture of injection molding machines (Ankerwerk Nuremberg) |
| 1956 | Construction of the world's first single-screw injection molding machine |
| 1970 | Establishment of Demag Kunststofftechnik |
| 1971 | First injection molding machine DAC 2 + -50 that can be programmed with punched tape |
| 1973 | First injection molding machine to work with digital hydraulics |
| 1975 | First NCI programmable logic controller |
| 1979 | First NCII programmable logic controller with screen |
| 1979 | Establishment of Mannesmann Demag Kunststofftechnik |
| 1986 | Introduction of NCIII control |
| 1991 | Acquisition and development of the small machine factory Wiehe / Van Dorn Demag Corp. - becomes a member of the Mannesmann Group |
| 1992 | Introduction of the NC4 control |
| 1996 | Presentation of the multi-component series Multi with four injection settings |
| 1998 | Start of production in China by Demag Ningbo (joint venture) |
| 1999 | Introduction of the modular drive technology with the high-speed machine EL-EXIS S |
| 2001 | Start of production in India by L&T Demag (joint venture) |
| 2002 | Merger of Demag Ergotech and Van Dorn Demag under the umbrella of the Demag Plastics Group |
| 2003 | Introduction of the fully electric IntElect injection molding machine with water-cooled direct drives |
| 2005 | Demag Plastics Group takes over 100% of the shares and continues the joint venture in China on its own |
| 2006 | Introduction of the NC5 control / focus on industries |
| 2007 | Focus on 3 product lines |
| 2008 | Merger of Sumitomo and Demag Plastics Group |
| 2008 | Demag Ningbo production in China is celebrating its tenth anniversary |
| 2015 | Opening of the new production facility in Ningbo, China |
| 2017 | Publication of the new generation of fully electric IntElect machines |
Individual evidence
Web links
- www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu
- plus.google.com/+Sumitomo-SHI-DemagEu
- youtube.com/c/Sumitomo-SHI-DemagEu
- linkedin.com/company/sumitomo-shi-demag
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 16 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 29 ″ E