Demag Plastics Machinery has received this award for the first time. At the presentation ceremony, Stephan Greif, CEO of Demag Plastics Machinery , thanked Deputy Mayor Wang Jian Hou, who presented the award as a representative of Ningbo City. Demag Plastics Machinery contributed substantially to the consolidation and advancement of Ningbo’s local economy. A total of ten non-domestic experts with production sites in Ningbo were honoured with the award.

Demag Plastics Machinery (Ningbo) in profile
Demag Plastics Machinery Co., Ltd., Ningbo/China, has been producing high-performance injection moulding machines for the Chinese and other Asian markets since 1998. The Chinese daughter company of the German-Japanese manufacturer Sumitomo Demag has its own factory with a production area covering 11,000 m². The injection moulding machine program is comprised of the hydraulic construction series Systec C, with a clamping force of 500 to 10,000 kN, for the Asian markets.

Demag Plastics Machinery (Ningbo) Co., Ltd plans to expand the production capacity in Chinese Ningbo (Province Zhejiang). Sumitomo Demag is investing around seven million Euros in the extension of production capacity. It is envisages that the current annual production of around 650 will expand to 1,000 by the year 2015.

The Chinese market is not only covered optimally by Demag Ningbo in production, but also in sales and service. Therefore, the customer service in China is also structured according to the origin of the machines. In this way, the After Sales Department with its headquarters in Ningbo, manages 20 engineers in Dongguan, Chengdu, Suzhou and Shanghai and Peking. The team is responsible for the commissioning of new Chinese machines at the customer, for machine approval, test runs, mould proving, process optimisation and last but not least, customer training. The After Sales Department is responsible for the servicing, training and spare part sales for imported machines installed in China. Apart from the German machines, the After Sales Department is responsible as well for the machines from European and American production locations, and represents Sepro Robotique in China. It is responsible for the marketing and servicing of the French manufacturer of line robots. Additional regional offices in Guangdong (South China), Suzhou, province Jiangsu, Peking, Shanghai, Chengdu ((West China) and Shenyang (North China) ensure a local presence.