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Berstorff joins with Coscollola to reinforce its presence in Spain

15/09/2004

The German company Berstorff, one of the leaders in the field of extrusion, has decided to improve its presence in the Spanish market. In doing so it has reached a representation agreement with Coscollola commercial, which will build on the good name of the German company and the significant developments that occur in the K to begin this new relationship with the right foot.

For more than a hundred years Berstorff has been offering its customers the most wide range of equipment for the processing of plastics and rubbers. Full range, from single machines to turnkey solutions are designed and developed taking advantage of absolute mastery of the technique of extrusion of Berstorff experts.

Headquartered in Hanover, Berstorff has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom and France, as well as own sales in China, Singapore and Moscow offices. In addition, more than 50 countries with representatives of the German company. Spain is one of them and, as previously mentioned, since recently Berstorff commercial actions in the Spanish market are in the hands of Coscollola commercial, company of recognized prestige in our market due to its long experience and brands of front line which represents.

In this sense, Manfred Reichel, Manager General Berstorff GmbH, said last May that, in Europe, the Spanish market gains in importance for Berstorff.

In the field of plastics, products that manufactures Berstorff are as follows:

extruders single and double spindle for the production of thermoplastic compounds standard, technical, and high performance
extrusion plants complete in-line for the production of film and foil
extrusion of foam custom systems for production of sheets, panels and tubes
Calenders of rubber for the production of covers for soils
secondary equipment, like changers of filters, pelletizers under water and other types, as well as various roller units.

Plates for offset printing performed with new Berstorff processes.

In the field of rubber, its range includes:

extrusion machines and lines of extrusion to manufacturing components for the profile of tire and technical rubber parts
complete plants for roofs for soils
continuous systems of Vulcanized to the manufacturing of profiles: microwave ovens, hot air and units for salt baths
mono and co-extrusion lines for the production of profiles from thermoplastic elastomers (TPE)
rotary presses used in the production of technical rubber parts
equipment for the production of tapes v.
cutting and coiling equipment.

New head blow for layers of foam, with adjustable step 'easy gap' system.

Respond to the market

This German company managers know that, in future, Berstorff no longer going to get their growth by a simple "continue as usual". "Growth for Berstorff means - drew Manfred Reichel - we are going to open up new markets and new applications for plastics and rubber, together with our customers." Our loyalty to the client the look at first line through innovations, especially in the growing markets. "To get more flexibility within the needs of our customers, we have restructured our organization structure".

Since the last fair K in the year 2001 for Berstorff there have been three significant developments: the markets have changed and increases the importance of China and India; the demands of the customers have changed; Berstorff invests more than ever in the research, development and technology processes and applications.

In response to this new framework, the German company attends the K with a number of new features.

Image of the Basic ZE presented for the first time in the K.

Innovation

One of the most exciting developments in K (although it will have to visit the booth to learn about them all) is the ZE Basic series. Berstorff will present for the first time at the K2004 series ZE Basic as new machine concept within the full range of the extrusion machines of two spindles. Their extraordinary relationship coste-rendimiento is of particular interest to SMEs.

The spectrum of series ZE Basic process includes the following tasks:

laminating and alloyed plastics,
incorporate materials of reinforcement in polyolefins and technical plastics,
masterbatch production,
incorporate natural fibers in polyolefins and technical plastics

The second generation of the berstorff process Control advanced, with new display of user, embedded xp operating system and other advantages will be used as a command.

Another of the fields in which the company will surprise the k is the foams, with four broad themes: facilities tandem Berstorff ZE/KE; increased competition for installations of single foam base of an extruder of two spindles with cooling of the melt; foam polypropylene sheet, profiles or "Bead" (EPP) and new head blowing film "easy gap".