Increasing demand for its injection moulding machines has led Milacron to confirm that it will continue manufacturing Ferromatik machines at its Malterdigen, Germany manufacturing facility longer than originally estimated.
In March 2016, the US company said that it was transferring injection moulding machine assembly and machining from Malterdingen to its new state of the art facilities in the Czech Republic by the end of 2017.
Milacron now anticipates production will continue at the Malterdingen facility until the end of 2019, a full two years longer due to increased customer order intake across all of Europe.
Denis Poelman, managing director of Injection Europe, said: “Milacron has a proud history in Malterdingen designing, engineering and manufacturing the Ferromatik line of injection moulding machines.
As I’ve always stated, Milacron will still have a strong presence in Malterdingen even after the manufacturing operations transition to the Czech Republic.
Milacron is committed to remain in the Malterdingen area and if there were to be a move it would be within 25km of our current location.
Milacron’s European injection moulding machinery business will retain and grow the Engineering, R&D, Service, Sales, Marketing and Aftermarket departments.”