Strategic Alliance for Asian injection molding machine market

LWB''s product portfolio includes the complete range of rubber injection molding machines with 6 - 1200 tons clamping force and 4.5 to 30000 cc injection volume, ranging from vertical C-frame machine specifically for the profile industry, vertical 4-column or frame machines, up to horizontal machines pillar and C- frame clamping unit into frames, C-frame and column construction.

The company REP, founded in 1907, sells world-wide injection molding machines since 1948, ranging from 7 to 2400 tons clamp pressure, and 7 to 50 000 cc injection capacity, with primarily column frame design, for both horizontal and vertical lay-out.

Outside the Chinese market, the companies remain independent. Thus, the two injection molding machine manufacturers are still in direct competition to each other in other regions.

Both, LWB and REP, are present in China since many years, but do barely overlap on the market, giving way to this strategic alliance, where the companies will share their resources and offer competitive prices of their products to the growing Chinese market.

Location of the new plant is Langfang, Hebei Province, southeast of Beijing, where LWB started to manufacture several injection molding machines at a preliminary phase since 2009. The new plant, with a production area of 2,500 m², is scheduled to be finished by end of 2014. Before all, machines will be manufactured exclusively for the Chinese market.

For the joint company "United Rubber & Plastic Machinery (Langfang) Ltd.", a new machine series, specially tailored to the Chinese market, has been developed. Components from local production are combined with European know-how and thus provide a high standard of quality for the profile industry as well as for technical rubber parts for vertical and horizontal applications.