Graham Engineering acquires Welex

This latest acquisition follows Graham Group’s acquisition of majority interest in American Kuhne (AK) in October 2012, furthering Graham’s investment in plastic processing technologies. The Welex manufacturing operations are expected to be integrated into GEC’s operations in York.

David Schroeder, former President and CEO of Welex, has been appointed as the President of GEC, and Wolfgang Liebertz, current President of GEC, has assumed the role of CEO of the combined GEC/Welex

organization.

Welex has been providing high performance sheet extrusion solutions. It leads the industry with solutions installed in more than 3,000 customer locations in 69 countries. Welex innovations include co-extrusion and multilayer methods that lead the industry as well as dozens of barrier lines installed globally. GEC is an industry-leading supplier of extrusion blow molding equipment and offers a complete range of monolayer and multilayer blow molding equipment and technology upgrades including: rotary wheel blow molders for bottle sizes from 85 ml up to 5-gallon packaging applications, shuttle machines for up to 10

-liter capacity,reciprocating screw and shot pot machinery for lightweight HDPE containers, and single and dual head accumulator head industrial machines for up to 75lb shot capacities.