Injection moulding machinery maker Arburg has opened a technology centre in Tremblay-en-France, which is around 40 per cent larger than the previous location in Aulnay-sous-Bois.
The new Arburg Technology Centre (ATC), near Paris, occupies a floor space of more than 1,500 sq m and has a showroom area big enough for up to four Allrounder injection moulding machines and for freeformers.
“We can show a representative cross-section of the Arburg portfolio here,” explained managing partner Renate Keinath. “The machines are available for tests with customer moulds, as well as for training purposes. There are two training rooms, measuring over 100 sq m, for the theory part of the courses.”
The foundation stone for Arburg’s international sales and service network was laid in 1985 with the foundation of the subsidiary in France. Today, the team in France comprises 26 employees, 15 of whom work in the service division alone. As well as on-site service technician deployments, their tasks also include hotline support, the provision of spare parts, application technology advice and customer training.
In addition, the subsidiary also supports customers in Morocco and Tunisia.
“The building represents our desire to develop further, to modernise our injection moulds, our processes and our actions, in order to react even better to the needs of our customers,” added Pascal Laborde, managing director of Arburg France.
