Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Continues Investment in U.S. Operations

To open its NPE 2018 exhibit, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery North America, Inc. demonstrated fast-cycle, high-cavitation caps molding on its ultra-high-speed El-Exis SP hybrid. Molding over 130,000 caps per hour, a waterfall of 72 caps is ejected from the z-moulds hot runner mold on a sub 2-second cycle. The HDPE (MFI 7) material for…

Chicago Applications Center Grand Opening Postponed Sumitomo (SHI) Demag announced today that it is postponing the grand opening of its new Chicago Tech Center that was scheduled for April 22-23. The decision to postpone the two-day event was made to protect customers, supplier partners and company employees and ensure that company resources are focused on…

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag introduced its new SE-EV-AHD Series of mid-sized all-electric machines to the North American market today. The SE-EV-AHD, with 8 model sizes ranging from 247 to 562 U.S. tons, combines significantly increased specifications with advanced technologies resulting in a substantially different mid-sized machine series. Read more…

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery North America, Inc. today announced Phase One of its 2019 Expansion Plan in support of the U.S. injection molding market. Phase One of the company’s plan includes the move to a new, larger facility and Tech Center in the Atlanta area. The 74,000 sq ft facility, which will open February…

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery North America, Inc. opened a two-day event today in its Strongsville, OH Technology Center to introduce the North American market to the new SE-EV-A Platform of advanced all-electric injection molding machines. The event, which provided technical presentations plus five molding demonstrations on SE-EV-A Platform machines from 56 to 562 U.S….