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Premiere: electric ALLROUNDER 820 A Arburg will premiere the electric Allrounder 820A, which completes the high-end electric Alldrive machine series, at the K show in Düsseldorf. Both the 4,000 kN toggle-type clamping unit and the size 2100 electric injection unit have been newly developed for this machine. The gap between 3,200 and 5,000 kN in the electric clamping unit range has thus been closed. The same applies to the high-performance hybrid Hidrive range, for which this new toggle size will also be available in future. With the new clamping force and injection unit sizes for electric machines, the modularity of the Arburg range has been further enhanced, offering customers the option of adapting their Allrounders even more precisely to the relevant application and product, further increasing efficiency.
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Hestico celebrates as Arburg agent
54 OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2013
HESTICO and its principal Arburg of Germany, one of the world’s top manufacturers of injection moulding machines, celebrated notable milestones recently: Arburg for 50 years of production and Hestico for its 20th year as its local agent. A party was held at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg in August to celebrate the occasion, with the guest of honour being Helmut Heinson, managing director for sales at Arburg in Lossburg, Germany. Hestico has sold over 500 of the Arburg machines over the past two decades. The machines have proved very popular in the small machine category in South Africa, for the production of complex, technical parts, but more recently Arburg has also produced larger machines as well as fully electric machines up to 5,000kN clamp force. Arburg began producing injection machines in Germany in 1963 and in fact delivered a number of machines to convertors in South Africa in the later 1960s, through different trading companies. It eventually appointed Hestico as its exclusive partner
Guests at the reception at Melrose Arch included Chris Philippides of ADV Plastics, Anton Hanekom of Plastics|SA, Sam Antill of HellermanTyton, Helmut Heinson of Arburg, Nicholas Jagesar of Koogan Plastics and Basil Philippides of ADV were at the party
Helmut Heinson (right), MD of Arburg in Germany, guest speaker at the function to celebrate the top injection moulding machine manufacturer’s long-standing relationship with its South African agent, with Hestico directors Kelvin Mills, Juanita Stiehler-Brits
in 1993. At that time it was mainly Heiner Wolber (now retired from Hestico) who established the intensive contacts between the businesses. Heiner had German roots: he was born only a few kilometres from the Arburg plant in the Black Forest. Gerhard Greiner (now retired too) was also very successful with sales of Arburg machine in the Cape. “We had the classical win-win situation, where both partners joined forces for the sake of their customers: Arburg by supplying high-level injection moulding machines, Hestico by providing excellent support and service for the end user,” said Heinson. Around 2010 another important step was
Arburg users Helmut Schober of Vari Plug, Nick Duarte and Ernie de Witt of BIC, Steve Cooke of Cooke & Sons, Eric Schober of Vari Plug and Kurt Fellgieber of Concorde Plastics were at the party
taken when there was a “change in generations” at Hestico, with Juanita Stiehler-Brits and Kevin Mills taking over responsibility for the business. “Today in 2013 we are enjoying a close and trustful cooperation between our companies, namely a strong commitment of the management combined with excellent contacts in the industry, a stable organisation and a high level of competence are the basis for success in an extremely competitive world,” he added. www.arburg.com www.hestico.co.za
Joe de Olivera, Renato Ferraz, Michael Sardinha and Gary Ferraz, all from Fergoi Plastics, with Victor Stiehler of Hestico