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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is marking the jubilees of another three partnerships in Norway, Finland and Greece this year. Norwegian company, Hans Claussen AS, is celebrating the 10th year of cooperation in 2013. The partnership with Jusuco Oy from Finland has lasted for 20 years, while the Greek agency, Tecomer Ltd., can look back on more than 40 years of common purpose.
Paul Papapavlou, the current Managing Director of the Sumitomo (SHI) Demag agency in Greece, began working together with the forerunner companies Stübbe and Ankerwerk back in 1970. Three years later, and with his own company Technicom Ltd., he signed an agency agreement with the two forerunner companies. Technicom Ltd. changed its name to the current Tecomer Ltd. in 1976, and is based in the greater Athens area. The agency agreement has now been in place for more than 40 years, and forms the basis for successful cooperation.
The Finnish Jusuco Oy became the official agency for today's Sumitomo (SHI) Demag in 1992, since when it has been associated with the company for more than twenty years.
Odd Bj?rklund, the Managing Director of Hans Claussen AS, has represented Sumitomo (SHI) Demag in Norway for ten years now. From its headquarters in Stabekk, approx. 10 km west of Oslo, the agency provides Norwegian processing companies with consulting and support relating to plastics.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has consistently shaped the plastics industry from its inception. As a specialist for injection moulding machines for polymer processing, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and its Japanese parent company are among the leading companies in this sector globally. The Japanese-German company was formed in the spring of 2008 by merging the injection moulding activities of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and those of Demag Plastics Group.
With more than 5,000 machines sold each year, the Plastics Machinery Business of Sumitomo Heavy Industries counts as one of the largest Global manufacturer of injection moulding machines. The main Sumitomo plant in Chiba produces machines with low and medium clamping forces. Around 95 % of all machines supplied by Japan have an all-electric drive.
The main Demag facility in Schwaig/Germany focuses on the hydraulic Systec and the hybrid high performance, high-speed El-Exis machines. Recognising the increasing importance of electric drive technology for injection moulding machines, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has expanded the factory in Wiehe/Germany into an international centre of competence for electric machines. Thanks to the new production capacities, Wiehe now supplies all electric injection moulding machines worldwide with its IntElect series with clamping forces up to 4,500 kN and also the hydraulic Systec series with clamping forces of up to 1,200 kN.