Anniversary: USA facility established 40 years ago
battenfeld-cincinnati USA celebrates its 40th anniversary at its facility in McPherson, Kansas. “battenfeld-cincinnati has a long history in extrusion, dating back to the 1940s. This year, we are celebrating 40 years of activity in the USA. We are committed to this market and to our customers with our products and solutions,” Gerold Schley, CEO of BC Extrusion Holding GmbH, is pleased to announce.
The extrusion specialist was established by a group of European investors and Austrian engineers in McPherson as American Maplan Corporation (AMC) in 1977 and developed to become the North American market leader in extrusion lines and twin screw geometries for pipe, profile and siding by 1995. Its product range included single and twin screw extruders, parallel and conical twin screw extruders, and special extruders for WPC processing. Extrusion dies and automation systems were also part of the portfolio. In 1995, the former Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik GmbH in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, took over the American extrusion system manufacturer from F. Theysohn GmbH, Salzgitter, Germany. In the 1990s, the industry spoke of the “ABC in extrusion”, referring to the three companies American Maplan, Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik and Cincinnati Extrusion. Since the merger of the two extruder manufacturers Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik and Cincinnati Extrusion GmbH, Vienna, in 2010, the American Maplan company has been a member of battenfeld-cincinnati. In North America, the McPherson facility has since been extended to concentrate all activities in North, Central and South America at this location.
“We are thoroughly familiar with the needs of our customers in the pipe, profile and sheet/board industry and constantly develop jointly with them efficient, flexible line components and complete solutions”, says Paul Godwin, who joined the company in Kansas in 2000 and was named President & CEO of battenfeld-cincinnati USA in the beginning of 2017. battenfeld-cincinnati USA serves the North American, Central American, South American and Oceanian markets. The markets in South America, Central America and Oceania are handled jointly by American and German or Austrian entities. The core competencies of battenfeld-cincinnati USA are extruders for pipe and profile manufacturers. In addition to its development, engineering and service departments, the Kansas facility is equipped with its own modern production machines. Here, screws for counter-rotating twin screw extruders are designed and manufactured, as well as pipe tooling. Added to this is complete engineering of extrusion lines for PO and PVC pipe and profile production.
battenfeld-cincinnati USA offers the complete, extensive product portfolio of battenfeld-cincinnati, which, apart from pipe, profile and sheet/board extrusion lines, also includes thermoforming sheet extrusion lines for the packaging industry and pelletizing lines. With its store of some 75 years of experience in the extrusion industry, the company’s engineers bring ground-breaking innovations to market. The latest innovations include the solEX NG extruder with a length of 40 D, which offers special process attributes in PO pipe production, the new conEX NG conical twin screw extruder series, the fully automatic dimensional change system FDC (fast dimension change) for pipe production and the XXL Multi-Touch roll stack, which produces sheet with extremely low stress at high speeds and with high outputs.
All of battenfeld-cincinnati’s leading extrusion equipment is equipped with the latest BCtouch UX control system, which meets the Industry 4.0 standard. With an intuitive menu it supports efficient production planning and preventive maintenance, and fulfills future requirements for connectivity with servers and mobile appliances. In this way, it also provides the prerequisites for comprehensive process data acquisition and evaluation, and for vertical integration according to the Industry 4.0 concept.
”We are always looking to the future by staffing with key personnel to meet the needs of our customers today and tomorrow”, says Paul Godwin and adds in anticipation of a successful trade fair presence next year: ”NPE 2018 will be a leading technology display of our three product divisions – Infrastructure, Construction and Packaging”.
About battenfeld-cincinnati USA:
battenfeld-cincinnati USA based in McPherson, KS was established in 1977. With some 60 employees, it supplies extruders and extrusion dies adapted to the American market and designs and services complete PO and PVC pipe and profile extrusion lines.
