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Kraussmaffei takes over Pultrex

02 May '19
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Nicolas Beyl, president of the Reaction Process Machinery segment, Kraussmaffei Group and Colin Leek, managing director Pultrex (R); Pic: Kraussmaffei
Nicolas Beyl, president of the Reaction Process Machinery segment, Kraussmaffei Group and Colin Leek, managing director Pultrex (R); Pic: Kraussmaffei

Kraussmaffei has signed a share purchase agreement with Pultrex Ltd, based in Manningtree, Essex/UK, and thus strengthened its system competence in the area of pultrusion effective this year. Pultrex is one of the leading providers of pultrusion, pullwinding and filament winding systems, and is itself a manufacturer of pultrusion profiles.

The Manningtree location of Pultrex will be the Kraussmaffei competence centre for the construction of pullers, filament winding and pullwinding systems, said Kraussmaffei in a press release. At the same time, Pultrex expertise and experience will be used in the design of resin-impregnating bath systems for pultrusion. Profile production in Manningtree will continue on the same scale. This will result in a decisive advantage: From now on, customers will be able to test their prototypes and the respective series production on location and take the experience and knowledge gained into account in their development work. The metering machines for the Ipul systems come from Munich, the moulds from the Kraussmaffei location Harderberg in Germany.  Kraussmaffei is thus concentrating the pultrusion system knowhow specifically at the locations which already have the competence.

“With the company Pultrex, we have a valuable, experienced partner at our side, with whom we will expand our pultrusion business division for the long term,” said Nicolas Beyl, president of the Reaction Process Machinery Segment Kraussmaffei Group.

Kraussmaffei entered the pultrusion market in 2017, setting new standards with the Ipul system. The Kraussmaffei core competences include the expertise and experience with mixing and metering systems, as well as mould technology. With the expertise and experience of Pultrex, Kraussmaffei is complementing his system competence and now offers the entire value chain from a single supplier. At the same time, both parties will together pursue the aim of promoting standardised pultrusion system construction, thus offering their customers solutions with optimum price-performance ratios.

“Our partnership with the globally active technology leader Kraussmaffei, in particular the worldwide sales and service network, will be of great benefit to all our customers,” said Colin Leek, managing director Pultrex.

Pultrex has over 40 years of experience in the field of pultrusion, the continuous strand drawing of fibre-reinforced profiles and round rods. More than 600 Pultrex pultrusion systems are in use worldwide. The product portfolio includes complete pultrusion, pullwinding and filament winding systems. In addition, Pultrex manufactures profiles for numerous customers, for example in the construction, transport and wind power industries. The range of use of pultruded profiles is extremely diverse and continues to grow. (PC)

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