Chinaplas: Starlinger scores with "Intelligent Production" Concept

Austrian Engineering company Starlinger & Co. GmbH looks back at a very successful Chinaplas in Shanghai. From the circular loom model RX 6.1that was on show more than 100 have been sold by now; in the course of the exhibition the company contracted projects amounting to several million Euros. A great number of international visitors as well as a high propensity to invest reflected the current positive mood in the industry.

“We note a growing tendency towards high-quality, intelligent production in China”, said Hermann Adrigan, Head of Sales at Starlinger, summing up the impressions from the exhibition. “Especially for packaging producers in the private sector who export their products, production quality is becoming more and more important because they have to meet certain obligations and standards. In addition, labour cost plays a more and more significant role – also in China, wages are on the rise. Here, machines with a high degree of automatization help to reduce costs. Intelligent production thus is becoming an increasingly important topic – we certainly experience it in the demand for our machines“, concluded Adrigan.

In this context, intelligent production means the perfect interplay of the electronic and mechanical machine components to achieve highest efficiency and product quality while keeping machine operation and maintenance easy and simple. Starlinger consequently pursues this goal in machinery construction and this way has established its position among the world market leaders in the field of machinery for sacks and packaging made of polypropylene, polyethylene and PET tape fabric. The investment in a Starlinger line pays back quickly: The new circular loom model RX 6.1, for example, has – as do all Starlinger circular looms – the lowest production costs per fabric meter industry-wide, and operates at a significantly higher production speed than comparable looms on the market.

The RX circular looms are manufactured in the Starlinger factory in Taicang, Jiangsu province, China. Producing circular looms in China using components made in Austria has turned out a successful concept for Starlinger. In the past 10 years the Taicang production facility has grown steadily, having produced around 7000 circular looms in this period and employing nearly 80 people by today. A local service team consisting of Chinese service engineers is taking care of customers in the area.

Starlinger is a Vienna-based engineering company with production sites in Weissenbach and St. Martin, Austria, as well as Taicang, China. As the world’s leading supplier of machinery and complete lines for woven plastic bag production and PET recycling and refinement, Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. is a synonym for leadership in quality and technology in over 130 countries. Founded in 1835, the family-owned business has been exporting machines worldwide for more than 45 years with an export quota of over 99.5%. Branches in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, USA and Uzbekistan ensure quick and professional technical support and service.