Milacron India achieves new milestone

Milacron Holdings Corp.'s India manufacturing facility located in Ahmedabad has delivered its  10,001st injection molding machine. Milacron’s CEO, Tom Goeke said that the delivery is a significant milestone in the company's  India-based operations. "India continues to be a global plastics processing powerhouse. A number of analysts predict that by 2020 India will be 2nd to only China in the global polymer processing market.” Mr. Goeke explained.

On September 2, 2015, Milacron’s manufacturing team in India delivered its 10,001st India manufactured injection molding machine. The Milacron Hydron Servo 150 machine was presented to Mr. Ghisulal Rathod, Chairman, of Cello Group by Ron Krisanda, Milacron’s Chief Operating Officer, Advanced Plastic Processing Technologies at the Vatva, Ahmedabad facility.

Mr. Rathod expressed great satisfaction with the 18-year relationship between Cello Group and Milacron. Rathod commented said that the relationship is based on mutual benefits and progressive growth, and has resulted in Milacron supplying more than 200 injection molding machines to various factories of Cello Group in India and Africa.  

Milacron’s Managing Director in India, Shirish Divigi, also discussed  Milacron’s plans to expand the company’s service offerings in the region, with plan to station Service Engineers closer to the customers' operations. This is part of the goal is to provide complete life cycle support and management services to customers.

To meet the increasing demand in India and support existing customers, Milacron’s Vatva, Ahmedabad facility will complete its current expansion project on January 1, 2016. The expansion will allow Milacron to increase its annual output of 1,500 injection and blow molding machines to 2,100 machines per annum, a 40% increase.